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    May 10, 2019
    Imbalance between proposed new capacity and anticipated demand will deteriorate economics for most refining projects, leading to cancellation or postponement of all but the most...
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    May 7, 2019
    Integrated slug-flow optimization can mitigate flow problems in a wide range of both offshore and onshore operating conditions. Slug flow is one of the most common flow states...
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    May 7, 2019
    State-owned Empresa Nacional del Petróleo (Enap) subsidiary Enap Refinerías SA has implemented a no-cost project to increase gasoline production at Enap Refinerías Bío Bío’s (...

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    May 7, 2019
    A continuous pack-off inflow control device (CP + ICD) completion in the South China Sea produced tenfold the oil in 3 months as three adjacent wells within 150-200 m that were...
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    May 6, 2019
    Oil companies announced six high-impact offshore discoveries of conventional oil and gas during first-quarter 2019, nearly half the total high-impact estimated resources discovered...
    May 6, 2019
    Canada’s government is toughening standards for offshore conservation in ways that can preclude oil and gas activity in some areas.
    May 6, 2019
    ConocoPhillips reported first-quarter 2019 earnings of $1.8 billion compared with first-quarter 2018 earnings of $900 million. Excluding special items, first-quarter adjusted ...
    May 6, 2019
    The US Environmental Protection Agency has not adequately prepared for potential engine damage problems which would result from using the wrong fuel, officials from the American...
    May 6, 2019
    The oil and gas industry’s long march to recovery has created a big imbalance across the oil and gas ecosystem and performance gains of companies continue to be discounted by ...
    May 6, 2019
    Valero Energy Corp. is investing $400 million to expand alkylation capacity at subsidiary Valero Refining New Orleans LLC’s 340,000-b/d St. Charles refinery in Norco, La.
    May 6, 2019
    The US Chemical Safety Board called on the US Environmental Protection Agency to review its existing hydrofluoric acid (HF) study to determine if existing regulations are effective...
    May 6, 2019
    Gazpromneft-Zapolyarye has completed agreements allowing it to start developing Cretaceous Achimov strata in Yamburgskoye oil and gas condensate field and oil-rim deposits in ...
    May 6, 2019
    Chevron Corp. reported first-quarter earnings of $2.6 billion, down from $3.6 billion in first-quarter 2018 while its worldwide net oil-equivalent production was 3.04 million ...
    May 6, 2019
    Equinor and Faroe Petroleum PLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of DNO ASA of Oslo, have completed their no-cash exchange of producing and development interests offshore Norway.
    May 6, 2019
    The pursuit of Anadarko Petroleum Corp. ramped up in late April as the company resumed negotiations with Occidental Petroleum Corp. On Apr. 30, Oxy reported Berkshire Hathaway...
    May 6, 2019
    ExxonMobil Corp. reported an oil discovery offshore Guyana with the Yellowtail-1 well on Stabroek block, bringing to 13 the total discoveries on that block and adding to an estimated...
    May 6, 2019
    The US Department of the Interior disputed a Wall Street Journal report quoting Sec. David L. Bernhardt as saying development of a new US Outer Continental Shelf oil and gas leasing...
    May 6, 2019
    US offshore operators have more in common than they might think with independent producers fracturing horizontal onshore wells in England. The important work of both groups faces...
    May 6, 2019
    These days, the business of oil and gas conferencing is big. And by big, of course, this editor means financially as well as physically. With growing US shale production poised...
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    May 6, 2019
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