Some disagreements are too deep for compromise, as BP Amoco PLC and ARCO have discovered in seeking US Federal Trade Commission approval of their $26.8 billion merger.
Since discovery of the Shah Deniz gas-condensate field by a BP Amoco PLC-led consortium in the Azeri waters of the Caspian Sea last summer, Turkey's options for importing gas ...
An analytical method has been developed that allows aboveground storage tanks (ASTs) to be returned to service after major repairs without a hydrostatic test.
An easily calculated semiquantitative index, which expands on conventional sample-description procedures, may be used to indicate relative levels of porosity and permeability ...
Scarabeo 7, a converted semisubmersible delivered Oct. 25, 1999, will utilize a thruster-assisted, eight-line mooring system outfitted for water-depth operations up to 1,500 ft...
Eventually researchers may reach a consensus as to whether catastrophic global warming is a reality, but until they do, US oil and natural gas companies are taking matters into...
The current state of the US refining industry is well-documented and widely acknowledged by those who participate in it and by the array of observers and analysts that follow ...
The North American natural gas sector will experience unprecedented growth over the coming decade, with increasing demand coming mostly from growing needs in the power generation...
Poseidon crude oil pipeline, ... was damaged in an accident involving the 8-ton anchor of Transocean 96, a second-generation semisubmersible drilling rig owned by Transocean Sedco...
The US Energy Information Administration has reported that many investor-owned electric utilities (IOUs) have merged with other utilities to improve their positions in the new...
Southwest Gas Corp. has sued Oneok Inc. for unspecified damages after Oneok abruptly terminated a pending $1.8 billion merger between the two companies rather than risk taking...
After the start-up of three new Indian refineries and the tripling of capacity at Mangalore Refineries & Petrochemicals Ltd.'s complex, there is not a glut of petroleum products...
Retrofitting hydrotreater-feed filters with wire-mesh filters significantly reduced the operating cost at Syncrude Canada Ltd.'s Alberta oilsands plant.
A recent study indicates that a slow-paced, gas-to-liquids (GTL) scenario for developing Alaska's North Slope gas is the only option that has a rate of return greater than 10%...
