The world now glowers at oil. Prices of crude oil and petroleum products have reached unprecedented levels. Heavily taxed European consumers are protesting in various ways. Newspaper...
Norway's Statoil AS reported earlier this month that a hot-tap operation completed at the end of August has prepared the Statpipe gas trunkline for tie-in of an export line from...
Australian Geological Survey Organisation, Canberra, launched a 2-year project to inventory and document all depositional centers under Australian marine jurisdiction.
An important new effort is under way to evaluate enhanced oil recovery through carbon dioxide flooding in the prolific Monterey formation of the San Joaquin basin, southern California...
Despite few changes in market fundamentals since early August lows, oil prices have increased $7-8/bbl, and OPEC's recently proposed output hike has not eased market jitters, ...
Marathon Oil Co., a unit of USX Corp. unit USX-Marathon Group, Pittsburgh, plans to consolidate parts of its US upstream organization in an effort to cut costs by $75 million/...
Through the latter half of the 1990s, the UK North Sea offshore industry was eager to hold itself up as a shining example of a forward-looking business that had been streamlined...
Megamajors BP, ExxonMobil Corp., and Royal Dutch/Shell Group have signed separate strategic joint-venture agreements with China's state oil and petrochemical company, Sinopec ...
By yearend, rig operators in the UK Continental Shelf will have reduced to zero the discharge of their synthetic-based drilling fluid contaminated cuttings.
