Exxon Corp. Chairman Lee Raymond, left, and Mobil Corp. Chairman Lucio Noto testified last spring at a US House of Representatives hearing about their planned merger.
The proposed Eastern Gulf of Mexico Federal Offshore Lease Sale 181 is the most exciting exploration opportunity for oil and gas companies since the first area-wide lease sales...
In these times, all segments of the energy profession have available old, new, or a combination of geophysical and geochemical survey results of a geographical region or a geological...
The pre-Caspian basin is a major salt-dome basin and the deepest such basin in the world. The basin's potential for oil and gas production rivals that of the North Sea basin. ...
The FurmaSeal self-sealing repair clamp is specifically designed to perform leak repairs of pipelines and to encapsulate leaking valves, flanges, and most other components used...
Flexible manufacturing facilities, enabled by computer-assisted drafting and manufacturing (CAD, CAM) technologies, can now deliver custom-designed polycrystalline diamond compact...
Coastal Corp., Houston, has applied to the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to build and operate a 1.1 bcf/day gas pipeline serving the growing Florida market.
Mexico's Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) continues expanding the country's natural gas distribution system as it has made a call for technical bids for one permit area, while...
A research project is planned to develop and field-test a composite drill pipe that will transmit drilling data from the bottom of the well bore to operators on the surface.
The South China Sea's Spratly Islands continue to be a potential flash point as China persists in following a long-term strategy of gradually extending its control over the entire...
Novus Australia Energy Co. Pty. Ltd., Sydney, and partners were awarded an exploration license for Block 17 in Oman, which covers 3,200 sq km of onshore and offshore territory...
Marathon Canada Ltd. has recently used casing-conveyed perforating guns to complete a gas well, Well 14-1-28-18, in the Drumheller field of central Alberta.
A 122,000 cu m cargo of LNG being transported to France from Nigeria represents a major milestone, given the troubled history of Nigeria's petroleum industry (see story, p. 30...
The 1998 revamp of the No. 2 fluid catalytic cracking unit (FCCU) in the Caltex Refineries (NSW) Pty. Ltd. refinery at Kurnell, Australia, corrected problems that constrained ...
After months of rising oil prices, a sudden fall in early October took the industry by surprise, but behind the slide was a rise in production both inside and outside of the Organizatio...
Although the merger of Exxon Corp. and Mobil Corp. is widely expected to clear the final hurdle of US Federal Trade Commission approval at any time, not all observers view the...
BP Amoco PLC announced the signing in London on Oct. 20 with China Petrochemical Corp. (Sinopec) of a framework agreement to undertake a joint feasibility study for a world-scale...
One of the largest heat exchangers of its type has been installed for Arabian Petrochemical Co., Petrokemya, by Altec International LP (now Chart Heat Exchangers), La Crosse, ...
Republicans running the US Senate have a ready counterpunch for the scolding they received from President Bill Clinton on Oct. 14 over their rejection of the Comprehensive Nuclear...
