California's refiner-marketers continue to work under a cloud regarding the status of federal vs. state guidelines on clean fuel supplies once the state's ban on methyl tertiary...
Relays installed in Occidental Permian Ltd.'s operations in the Permian basin of West Texas and New Mexico have contributed to decreased power distribution and equipment failures...
Following repeated failure of bicenter drillbits to meet demanding requirements in a number of offshore East Malaysia wells, Royal Dutch/Shell Group's Shell Malaysia Ltd. drilled...
The next decade will be a crucial time for refiners in the US and throughout the world as they face more-stringent environmental regulations, historically high operating rates...
In preparation for whatever the 108th Congress holds in store for US energy policy, oil and gas producers should dispense with fallacies that arose last year about natural gas...
Since the inception of oil and gas exploration in New York, geologists have speculated on the potential of the fractured Upper and Middle Devonian shale/siltstone of the Appalachian...
This concluding article of two focuses on application of a reliability-based pipeline condition-assessment methodology to the assessment of an in-service corroded oil pipeline...
A significant inconsistency appears in your recent article by Steve Shu, Francis Christiano, and Malcolm Harrison, "Analysis points to electric-motor drivers for Angola LNG" (...
Oil field services demand should rebound throughout 2003 following a sluggish fourth quarter 2002, drilling managers at US and Canadian exploration and production companies told...
An independent producer group said that new government surveys show there is reason to be optimistic that there is more undiscovered oil and gas within US public lands than once...
There was speculation at presstime last week that the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries would hike its new production quota by more than 1 million b/d on Jan. 12 in...
Paris-based International Energy Agency is undertaking a survey to determine the impact of liberalization of the European natural gas market on the supply safety of its 26 member...
Certain developing countries' efforts to strengthen their economies, improve energy security, and protect their local environments are at the same time reducing significantly ...
Algerian officials are debating a proposal to strip Sonatrach, the state oil firm, of its monopoly market powers and put it on a nearly equal competitive footing with foreign ...
ConocoPhillips reported that Rob McKee—executive vice-president, exploration and production, with Conoco Inc. and Conoco- Phillips since 1992—will retire effective Mar. 31. McKee...
The International Monetary Fund recently scrutinized the economies of two key oil exporters, Nigeria and Kuwait. Both governments, like most other members of the Organization ...
Many oil and gas exploration and production companies are planning 2003 capital expenditure budgets that are flat or lower than their 2002 budgets amid concerns about volatile...
Energy experts are bullish about oil service company stocks for 2003 but more cautious about exploration and production stocks, according to an annual energy poll conducted by...
The American Gas Association joined a growing chorus of trade groups warning US consumers they could see higher natural gas prices in the next decade unless policymakers boost...
When German refiners supply the country's markets with sulfur-free gasoline and diesel on Jan. 1, 2003, the event is likely to trigger a more widespread adoption of clean fuels...
Talisman Energy Inc., Calgary, has delayed until Jan. 31 the sale of its 25% interest in the Greater Nile Oil Project (GNOP) to New Delhi-based ONGC Videsh Ltd., extending the...