US officials' recent optimistic estimate that Iraq could increase its oil production to 6 million b/d in 3 years, from less than 2 million b/d currently, is "physically impossible...
Field tests in the last 2 years by TransCanada PipeLines Inc., Calgary, have shown the practicality of installing composite-reinforced line pipe (CRLP) as an alternative to newly...
A US House Republican plan giving states more authority over some offshore oil and natural gas drilling while lifting existing federal moratoriums faces an uphill political battle...
The White House is playing a more active role in US energy bill discussions due to deep disagreements between US House and Senate tax writers over energy incentives for ethanol...
Iran will assist Syria against the impact of any proposed US sanctions, particularly any that hit the country's oil industry, according to a senior Iranian official.
A House Republican leader Oct. 21 introduced a bill that would limit exemptions and waivers to a US law designed to punish foreign oil companies that invest in either Libya or...
RMI forum sees good oil, gas profits for short term Current high oil and gas prices are sustainable, at least for the next few years, which will be very good for the energy industry...
The US Department of Justice, the US Environmental Protection Agency, and the US Attorney in San Francisco reported last month a clean air settlement with ChevronTexaco Corp.'...
Experience with countries disrupted by wars and severe social change in the Middle East and Eastern Europe shows a pattern of about 3 years to regain stability in the oil industry...
Fu Chengyu becomes CNOOC Ltd. chairman, CEO CNOOC Ltd., Hong Kong, has appointed Fu Chengyu as chairman and CEO, succeeding Wei Liucheng, who resigned to accept a position with...
Russian financial markets appeared to be stabilizing after the initial shock over the arrest at gunpoint of OAO Yukos chairman and CEO Mikhail Khodorkovsky by Russian police Oct...
Days before an international donors' conference for Iraq was to be held in Madrid, a prominent human rights group said the US needs to do a better job informing the public about...
Thirteen states, mainly in the US Northeast, and several cities Oct. 27 fulfilled their promise to sue the US Environmental Protection Agency over its latest efforts to streamline...
It's really rocket science Sea Launch Co. LLC, based in Long Beach, Calif., has produced perhaps the most creative reuse of a semisubmersible drilling platform.
Indian state-owned refiner Hindustan Petroleum Corp. Ltd. (HPCL) has set aside 5 billion rupees ($109 million) for oil exploration and production, which marks the latest Indian...
Mission Woods, Kan., has announced that its Energy Services & Production Div. has acquired substantially all of the assets of Mohajir Engineering Inc., an oil and gas engineering...
A newly released Pipeline Data Management Extension (PDME) for Redlands, Calif.-based ESRI's ArcGIS is available to the industry. ArcGIS is a scalable system of software for geographic...
