Some of us are born to fill a certain place in our company. Early last month, John M. Spears, the greatest advertising salesman in the 100+ years of Oil & Gas Journal, died. John...
Cenovus Energy Inc., Calgary, said it has achieved first heavy oil production last week from Phase E at its Christina Lake thermal project in Alberta and that the company's overall...
The rapid growth of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling in shale and tight rock formations has not only created a surge in North American natural gas and light oil production...
Pioneer Natural Resources USA Inc., Dallas, in 2012 employed basic process design provided by Bechtel Hydrocarbon Technology Solutions, Houston, to increase ethane recovery at...
A comprehensive study of the reserve and production potential of the Barnett shale integrates engineering, geology, and economics into a numerical model that allows for scenario...
Undiscovered recoverable resources on the Norwegian Continental Shelf are an estimated 935 million to 5,420 million standard cu m of oil equivalent (scmoe), the Norwegian Petroleum...
US President Barack Obama called energy an important US jobs creation area, but excluded the proposed Keystone XL crude oil pipeline, in a July 30 Chattanooga, Tenn., address....
Addressing global climate change is as much an economic as environmental challenge, and future strategies and policies will need to recognize this, US Environmental Protection...
US Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Ronald L. Wyden (D-Ore.) said he plans to ask the committee's members to consider dividing hydraulic fracturing regulatory...
Tethys Petroleum Ltd. will acquire interests in and become operator of several production sharing contract areas in the Kura basin near Tbilisi in eastern and central Georgia....
World energy consumption will jump 56% in the next 30 years, driven by growing demand in developing countries, the US Energy Information Administration recently reported in its...
Leaving produced gas entrained in heavy oil pipelines reduces energy costs by allowing the oil to flow at a lower temperature. This article analyzes boundary heavy oil flow conditions...
Julie M. Carey Navigant Consulting Inc. Washington, DCInitially thought of as a stopgap for transporting North American crude oil production until new pipelines could be built...
The following is the summary from the recent assessment by the British Geological Survey and UK Department of Energy and Climate Change of gas in place in the Bowland-Hodder shale...
US airfield owners are lured by attractive signing bonuses to lease their shale acreage. But shale operators cannot always fulfill their promises to drill, and the Dallas-Fort...
