While plants continually become more complex, chemical engineers, with the advent of computers and commercial off-the-shelf simulation software, can now successfully redesign ...
Now that fieldbus is used in virtually all new refineries, oil and gas companies are looking beyond the older, established products and their problems to more modern fieldbus ...
Using indices to describe and compare drilling complexity and analyzing the efficiency of the energy applied to formations while drilling can improve performance.
Petro-Canada expects the first phase of the Fort Hills oil sands project in Alberta to have a capital cost of $14.1 billion (Can.) and produce through mining 160,000 b/d of bitumen...
The extent of methane emissions worldwide is significant and indisputable. The economic benefits from containing such emissions are equally compelling.
The US House of Representatives passed a pair of energy bills Aug. 4 that Democrats said would greatly accelerate energy efficiency and alternative development efforts.
General Interest - Quick TakesMarathon unit to pay fine in oil-price caseMarathon Petroleum Co. LLC agreed to pay a $1 million civil fine to settle a US Commodity Futures Trading...
The July 1 opening of gas and electricity markets in Europe jumped to 12 million from 680,000 the number of French customers who can select their gas suppliers, but the Energy...
BP PLC must improve its operational performance to boost its profits, said BP Chief Executive Tony Hayward, at a press conference in London to present the company’s second-quarter...
US gasoline production and demand broke records during this year’s first half despite higher prices and several unplanned refinery breakdowns, the American Petroleum Institute...
The front-month crude contract ended the trading week through Aug. 3 with a 2% loss after setting record highs in earlier sessions on the New York market.
AlgeriaA group led by Repsol YPF SA has found gas in an Ordovician formation in the Reggane-6 (RG-6) appraisal well on block 351c and 352c in Algeria’s Sahara Desert.The well ...
Knowledge Systems Inc.Houston, has elected Jamey Webster as chief executive officer. Webster, who served as the company’s chief operating officer for the past four years, succeeds...
A new method for determining the maximum shutdown time of a waxy crude oil pipeline is not only more accurate and flexible, but can also yield substantial savings in heating costs...
