Advanced pipeline-pressure isolation technology allowed Shell Philippines Exploration & Production to replace an export riser shutdown valve at an offshore natural gas production...
Formosa Petrochemical Corp. (FPCC) reduced the mass flow rate to regeneration and increased the absorption and regeneration capacity at its amine treating regeneration system ...
Iraq's 2009 announcement that it planned to increase its oil production by 10 million b/d attracted global attention but received broad dismissal by oil observers.
Government and industry officials cited substantial progress in improving offshore oil and gas operations on the first anniversary of the Macondo deepwater well accident and oil...
A court-imposed Apr. 20 deadline in a New Orleans federal court prompted a flurry of claims and counterclaims as BP PLC filed litigation against Transocean Ltd., Halliburton Co...
EPRINC has estimated that Kurdistan is on a path to produce 400,000-500,000 b/d by 2015. But higher rates are possible as the political rivalry between Baghdad and Kurdistan continues...
A new method to determine yield strength based on hardness could be used in storage facility pipes with results more conservative than outlined in CFR Title 49 Part 195.106.
BP PLC board members and top executives emphasized safety improvements at an Apr. 14 shareholders meeting in London that drew protesters while fielding many questions about the...
A new methodology assesses the risk of upheaval buckling and determines the required profile of the trench bottom as a bed for both subsea and onshore pipelines.
The US Coast Guard's National Pollution Funds Center, which administers the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund established under the 1990 Oil Pollution Act, had obligated or incurred...
Current levels of global demand for oil would buffer the impacts of Japan's nuclear crisis on Kuwait, according to Abdelatif Al-Houti, Kuwait Petroleum Corp. (KPC) managing director...
Dubbed "girlie gas" by skeptics in the early 1990s, Australia's coal seam gas (CSG) sector has risen in the space of 2 decades to be one of the country's major energy resources...
Independent oil and natural gas producers and other commodities market participants have been urging the administration of US President Barack Obama to move carefully in imposing...
Saying 2010 was an "indifferent year" for US LNG imports, FACTS Global Energy, Singapore, also said in a review of the US market that rising unconventional gas output has helped...
While much can be said about the energy achievements of Brazil, Latin America's economic dynamo does not, with one exception, represent a model for energy policy-making in the...
New labeler for oil field useThe new thermal transfer labeler Dura-Label 2000 PLUS prints on 1⁄2 in., 1 in., and 2 in. vinyl for oil field use.The portable, 2.7 lb unit is suited...
Logan International Inc.,JonesKiesterBuzinksyHouston and Calgary, has named David S. Jones senior vice-president and COO, downhole tools; Lawrence D. Keister vice-president, finance...
On the defensive shortly into his reelection campaign because of high gasoline prices, President Barak Obama had Atty. Gen. Eric Holder form yet another task force to "round up...
Less important than 11 families changed forever yet fateful all the same are two other legacies of last year's Macondo tragedy with which the offshore oil and gas industry will...
In its recent analysis of floating production systems, International Maritime Associates, Washington, forecast the petroleum industry will add 120-175 new units during the next...
