Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, visiting the Abadan refinery to underscore his nation's ability to defy international sanctions, survived an explosion and fire at the facility...
After years of predictable seasonal variations in key elements of the supply-demand balance, the winter 2010-11 was another study in divergence from the norm.
Plans and proposals for new gas processing plants for much of North America’s newly minted gas production regions—that is, its shale gas areas—failed as of Jan. 1 to bump 2010...
The bitumen upgraders in the Fort McMurray area of Alberta and the refineries in the Edmonton area are large producers of petroleum coke (petcoke), which, historically, has had...
The future growth of NGL production in the US depends largely on the continued exploitation of hydrocarbons found in shale and other unconventional resource plays.
A new process that combines foamed oxygen injection for generating carbon dioxide and steam has increased heavy 13-17° oil production from Pleito Creek oil field in Kern County...
Cairn Energy PLC plans to drill as many as four exploratory wells off western Greenland in 2011 at a cost of $600 million following the three it completed in 2010.
Russia's OAO Rosneft said it would continue negotiations with BP PLC on developing the Arctic despite the passing of a deadline for agreement on a $16 billion share swap.
Energy executives expect continued volatility in oil prices for the rest of the year, with 64% forecasting crude oil prices will exceed $121/bbl on the New York Mercantile Exchange...
Production results for the Bakken formation in the Williston basin continue to improve with technological advances, prompting Continental Resources Inc. to estimate potentially...
Iraq's oil reserves, revised to 143.5 billion bbl in late 2010 from the 115 billion bbl official figure that held for several years, will no doubt turn out to be much larger than...
One week before a US Department of Energy secretarial advisory subcommittee was scheduled to open a 2-day meeting to discuss hydraulic fracturing questions, Michigan's Department...
The US Geological Survey will update its 2008 assessment of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas in the US portion of the Bakken formation in North Dakota and Montana...
The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation, and Enforcement released a revised draft supplemental environmental impact statement (SEIS) on May 20 for Chukchi Sea Lease...
Marathon Oil Corp. agreed to purchase Eagle Ford shale assets in south Texas from privately held Hilcorp Resources Holdings LP for $3.5 billion subject to closing adjustments,...
The international oil and gas industry will certainly want to know that the Russian government must pay Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the former chief executive officer of OAO Yukos, ...
Artificial Lift EnhancementsA new pump design, a “smart” variable speed drive (VSD), and power monitoring capabilities now available to the oil field are designed to enhance the...
A statistical survey of coupons under the influence of a residual magnetic field shows reductions in both general pit depth and extreme pit depth values compared with control ...
May was “a rather odd month” for the oil market with “some unusually sharp swings in prices and sentiment” despite no dramatic change in market fundamentals, said Paul Horsnell...
Mears Group Inc., Rosebush, Mich., has appointed Craig Chaney chief engineer, integrity solutions. Supporting specialized assessment projects for the gas, oil, and nuclear industries...
In response to a request, I wrote an article for Oil & Gas Journal in 1985 on future unleaded compositions, optimizing blends, using generalized blending equations.
