Proper evaluation of a claim of groundwater contamination from hydraulic fracturing requires several steps, which include characterization of the background groundwater condition...
Jadran Naftagas has spudded the Obudovac exploratory well near the village of Obudovac, located in the Samac municipality in Republika Srpska, an autonomous region within Bosnia...
Oil fields in Argentina's Cuyo basin, lying just north of the Neuquen basin, are concentrated in only about 5% of the basin's total areal extent of 42,640 sq km.
Demand for oil and gas in the US will climb this year, bolstered by improving economic conditions. US crude oil and lease condensate production is expected to rise 13.8% to 7....
Enhanced oil recovery via miscible flooding with CO2 is an increasingly viable substitute globally for water flooding, but each case requires careful project design and cost estimation...
Facing the chance to exercise bipartisan judiciousness, US lawmakers should remember that the problem with ethanol in vehicle fuel isn't the substance but rather volumetric requirements...
A combination of acid washes and oxygenate scavengers can both reduce the frequency of pipeline failures caused by existing pitting corrosion and prevent new pitting corrosion...
Retreat by the US Environmental Protection Agency from its hunt for hydraulic-fracturing witches exposes an overworked strategy of modern environmental politics.
Much attention has focused on how the Henry Hub, La., cash market for natural gas will influence world gas markets when the US begins exporting LNG. But an "equal if not greater...
Cameron International Corporation,Houston, opened its CAMSERV™ aftermarket drilling facility in Singapore to serve primarily major shipyards and offshore drilling contractors ...
Assumptions about the price of oil strongly influence forecasts of oil demand and supply such as Oil & Gas Journal's Midyear Forecast (p. 30). But what influences the price of...
Petrominerales Corp., Calgary, will conduct long-term production tests at a multizone oil discovery on its 100% owned Casanare Este block in Colombia's central Llanos basin.
The US Environmental Protection Agency's possible reduction in allowable ground level ozone concentrations to 60 parts per billion potentially could trigger sanctions against ...
Wyoming will conduct further investigations of drinking water quality in rural areas east of the town of Pavillion with the US Environmental Protection Agency's support, the state...
Shell Petroleum Development Co. of Nigeria Ltd. (SPDC), operator of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp. (NNPC)/SPDC joint venture (SPDC JV), reported that the group has taken...
Countries outside the US and Canada have vast quantities of hydrocarbons yet to be tapped from shale formations, said a June assessment released by the US Energy Information Administrat...
Leena Koottungal Survey Editor/News WriterCapacities as of Jan. 1, 2013Click here to download the PDF of the the "International Survey of Ethylene From Steam Crackers—2013"
Global ethylene capacity grew in 2012 at about the same pace as in 2011, and in both years capacity grew more slowly than the prior 3 years, according to the latest Oil & Gas ...
The Nelson-Farrar refinery construction index rose quickly from 2,281.6 in January 2010, to 2,378.1 in December of the same year. Then continued upward ending with 2,475.6 in ...