International sanctions and an unfavorable investment climate continue to limit Iran's development of its considerable oil and gas resources, the US Energy Information Administration...
Saudi Aramco's Khurais central processing plant has improved propane recovery from its gas train following performance analysis that relied on Lean Six Sigma tools.
Testing of an amine-regeneration technology at two natural gas processing plants owned and operated by Saudi Aramco revealed an improvement in amine performance and quality.
A project on a West Texas lease shows the effectiveness of seismic stimulation to arrest oil production rate decline of a nonwater-drive carbonate reservoir.
A review of lawsuits involving fracturing and general themes and theories of current cases can reveal trends that are emerging from this body of litigation, and one can make some...
Oil and Gas Journal's annual look at reported worldwide oil reserves shows an increase to 1.52 trillion bbl from 1.47 trillion in last year's survey (OGJ, Dec. 6, 2010, p. 46)...
World crude oil distillation capacity has contracted slightly in 2011 after growing slowly in 2010 (OGJ, Dec. 6, 2010, p. 50), according to the latest OGJ Refinery Survey.
US Congress should promptly restore federal funding for the Ground Water Protection Council (GWPC) and the State Review of Oil & Natural Gas Environmental Regulations (Stronger...
The UK government said it will consider "carefully" a report commissioned by explorer Cuadrilla Resources that acknowledges recent earthquakes in the country were caused by hydraulic...
Installing a recycle valve in parallel with the antisurge valve of a turbine-driven multistage (low pressure/high pressure) centrifugal compressor, in combination with control...
The Petroleum Services Association of Canada forecasts a total of 15,100 wells to be drilled across Canada in 2012, an increase of 10% over the expected final tally of 13,700 ...
Billions of dollars worth of infrastructure projects are being built or are planned in North Dakota's Bakken formation to transport oil and associated gas to market.
The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) completed its review of 1,413 deepwater oil and gas lease extension requests in the Gulf of Mexico and extended 1,...
Biofuels, touted as one of the great competitors to the oil and gas industry, are coming under international criticism for adversely affecting world food supplies.
For editors at Oil & Gas Journal deadlines are many and frequent simply due to OGJ's weekly publishing schedule in addition to its daily online news coverage.
New vacuum debris removal toolThe new Well Scavenger vacuum debris removal tool is designed to capture and remove debris from the wellbore during intervention activities.The tool...
The "Arab Spring" that ousted four authoritarian leaders—including Ali Abdullah Saleh who in late November gave up the presidency of Yemen after 33 years in power—might evolve...
Foster Wheeler AG,Zug, Switzerland, named Michelle Davies as general counsel for the firm, effective as of Nov. 1. She had served as acting general counsel for the last 22 months...
