Volume 117, Issue 5a

Occidental Petroleum Corp. is continuing its push to acquire Anadarko Petroleum Corp., raising the cash portion of its bid in a revised offer following an agreement struck with...

The cost of building and operating oil sands projects has fallen in recent years and total oil production is expected to rise by another 1 million b/d by 2030, but external factors...

Lessons are being learned as industry reactivates mobile offshore drilling units that were cold or warm-stacked during the oil-price slump that started in late 2014, representatives...

Future advances in technology will help offshore oil and gas development compete with US shale plays, said one of two oil-company keynote speakers May 6 at the Offshore Technology...

The Society of Petroleum Engineers’ 2019 president called on the oil and gas industry at large to mobilize its considerable technical resources to help meet the twin challenges...

The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement issued revised offshore blowout preventer (BOP) and well control regulations on May 2. The changes remove unnecessary regulatory...

US House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders strongly criticized the US Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration for not implementing more congressional mandates...

“Rollback!” complained environmental advocacy groups just before the US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement issued its final rule on offshore well control.

Even as the US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement issued revised offshore blowout preventer and well-control regulations to remove what Department of Interior officials...