North America has become a "global energy powerhouse" in the 20 years since the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was implemented, and the continent now has a "tremendous...
Panelists at the opening general session of the Society of Petroleum Engineers' Annual Technology Conference & Expo (ATCE) were asked to discuss how the oil and gas industry will...
The US House has passed, by a 233 to 170 vote, HR 348, which aims to streamline federal reviews of proposed oil and gas, highway, and other transportation projects.
Officials from oil and natural gas producing states worked with scientists and industry advisors to compile a primer intended as a policy-guiding document to help states develop...
Highlights of a draft technical report on the importance of decision quality in multicompany upstream projects was presented to the Society of Petroleum Engineers' Annual Technology...
A project design that maximizes use of existing equipment in expanding a refinery's crude oil processing capacity, and limits equipment additions to only those necessary, improves...
The US Environmental Protection Agency required fenceline monitoring for the first time as it issued a final rule updating refinery emissions control requirements.
Having moved from seismic exploration into other areas of geophysical research, the new president of the Society of Exploration Geophysics still helps to find oil.
Royal Dutch Shell PLC encountered oil and gas shows in its Burger J exploration well in Alaska's Chukchi Sea, but the results weren't "sufficient to warrant further exploration...
Rice Center for Engineering Leadership (RCEL) partnered with BP PLC and Trumbull Unmanned this past summer on a 3-day drone camp to help Houston-area middle-school and high-school...
WeatherfordWeatherford International plc announced the addition of the sand-tolerant pump (STP) to the company's artificial-lift solutions offering. Aimed to optimize the life...
Having moved from seismic exploration into other areas of geophysical research, the new president of the Society of Exploration Geophysics still helps to find oil.
Recent exploration and renewed interest in the San Joaquin basin, and other California oil basins, has focused on unconventional shale plays, especially in the Monterey formation...
A combination of resistivity and magnetic data provided valuable information for delineating volcanic vents and dikes, further defining geological contacts of volcanic tuff and...
When it comes to reporting what's going on in US oil and gas producing states, even the dimmest Washington, DC, reporter periodically remembers to start by speaking with people...
US President Barack Obama received more news coverage in the US for his speech promoting renewable fuels than the UK government did for a new step away from green-energy ambition...
US oil pipeline operators' net incomes increased more than 37% in 2014, reaching a new record of more than $9.5 billion on revenues of roughly $19.3 billion. Investment in oil...
Delek Refining Inc., a subsidiary of Delek US Holdings Inc., Brentwood, Tenn., used a nontraditional project development and execution approach to expand crude oil processing ...
In this era of tumult and constant change in the US petroleum sector, the mundane matters of infrastructure served as a reminder that a focus on gritty day-to-day details remains...
Net income for the OGJ150 group plummeted 17.48% in 2014 to $73.98 billion. This was the worst performance in dollar terms for annual profits for the OGJ group since 2010.
This second of three articles presenting selections from the 2014 American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers Q&A and Technology Forum continues a discussion of safety and also...
Fresh water used in hydraulic fracturing contains microbes that can proliferate in storage tanks under the right conditions. These microbes degrade guar-based fracing fluids, ...
Combining circumferential stresses with additional stresses produced by fluid seepage creates a new model which can be combined with the conventional model to fully describe in...
US crude oil production in June totaled 9.3 million b/d, a decline of 100,000 b/d from the revised May figure, according to the US Energy Information Administration's Petroleum...
A New Jersey Superior Court judge approved a $225-million environmental settlement between the state and ExxonMobil Corp. to resolve environmental damages over several decades...
Kuwait National Petroleum Co. (KNPC) has let a series of contracts to groups of oil and gas service providers to build the planned 615,000-b/d Al-Zour refinery complex in southern...
Unconventional oil and gas resource development has raised unexpected taxation questions that potentially could strain federal, state, and local government relationships, a public...
Eni SPA expects accelerated development of what it describes as a "supergiant gas discovery" at its deepwater Zohr prospect offshore Egypt. The company will immediately appraise...
Disclosure of what might be a supergiant gas field off Egypt further complicates the geopolitical tangle confronting development of an expanding hydrocarbon treasure in the eastern...
The basins along the eastern African margin and Madagascar contain proven petroleum systems where hydrocarbon discoveries are classified either as stratigraphic traps or as having...
Oil & Gas Journal's latest look at the top 100 oil and gas producing companies based outside the US shows that profits were down worldwide last year, weighted by the sharp decline...
A study released Sept. 1 by the US Energy Information Administration was apparent cause for celebration for several oil and gas industry groups, which took its findings as confirmation...
The US Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers began to implement their controversial Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule in all but 13 states on Aug....
The White House quietly refused to rule out oil and gas development in Alaska as US President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John F. Kerry, and other top officials prepared ...
