Our previous installment on US refining industry concentration examined how frenzied mergers, acquisitions, other partnerships, and shutdowns that occurred from 1995 to 2005 consolidate...
Gasoline processing operations, with a focus on safety, blending, and reforming issues, garnered considerable attention during the 2014 American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers...
Greater information-sharing and a new operational framework will help the oil industry mitigate project delays and overall risk. This article looks at how such a framework has...
The steep decline in oil prices has led to deep capital spending cuts in the oil and gas industry. Integrated oil companies and the larger independents have announced cuts of ...
Total US petroleum deliveries, a measure of demand, increased 4.2% from June 2014 to average 19.6 million b/d last month. In the second quarter, demand gained 3.7% compared with...
Congressional committee debate over the 40-year ban on exporting US-produced crude oil continued to break largely along party lines as the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing...
Iran's resumption of oil and gas exports, once sanctions are lifted under the recently negotiated nuclear limits agreement, probably won't flood global markets initially, the ...
Low and ultra-low permeability sandstones account for much of the increase in gas reserves in China. Effectively developing these reservoirs has been a research focus in the region...
US Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Tex.) said it would be geopolitically, economically, and strategically absurd for the US to maintain outmoded oil and gas export restrictions...
The US Environmental Protection Agency proposed a voluntary methane reduction program for the natural gas industry that would allow companies to make commitments and track their...
JSC Gazprom Neft has gained final approval from Russian government regulators to begin construction on its long-planned combined oil refinery unit (CORU) upgrade and modernization...
US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chair Lisa Murkowski (R-Alas.) introduced legislation that would end the ban on US crude oil exports, and establish federal Outer...
IMCABruno Faure, Group Senior Vice President Subsea Projects and Operations at Technip, a world leader in project management, engineering and construction for the energy industry...
Let's stay homeAs President Obama readies a new surge in Iraq, we can sense the eerie similarity with Vietnam. In each case we intruded on a civil war; Iraq has two or three. ...
Presidential hopeful Jeb Bush has plunged boldly-or accidentally-into the treacherous mists of energy taxation in a manner potentially useful to the oil and gas industry.
Quantum Energy Inc., Tempe, Ariz., said it will form a joint venture with Native Son Holdings LLC (NSH), The Woodlands, Tex., to build North Dakota's third refinery.
