Williams Cos. Inc., Tulsa, has named Steven J. Malcolm, the company's current president and chief operating officer, to the position of CEO. Malcolm succeeds Keith Bailey, who...
In September 1999, Kyokuto Petroleum Industries (KPI) commissioned a MagnaCat catalyst-separation unit in its resid fluid catalytic cracker (RFCC) at its Chiba, Japan, refinery...
US demand for oil and gas will increase this year, but the extent to which it does so will depend upon when and to what extent the US economy recovers.
The vertical and horizontal integration of control and information management systems went live in early 2001 at the ExxonMobil Corp.-led joint venture, Operadora Cerro Negro ...
Pakistan has substantial natural gas reserves and a current reserves-production (R/P) ratio of 31 years. The base-case scenario for natural gas consumption reveals that, with ...
Production restraint will be the key to the international oil market this year. Until economies of major oil-consuming countries rebound, crude oil prices will be unusually sensitive...
Austria is seldom seen as an oil producer, but in the fertile corn fields northeast of Vienna there are wells that might have been abandoned as uneconomic 5 years ago but today...
Chinese offshore oil producer CNOOC Ltd. and Beijing-based petroleum and chemicals trading firm China National Chemicals Import & Export Corp. (Sinochem) recently have entered...
The US Minerals Management Service has begun soliciting bids from prequalified companies to fill the Strategic Petroleum Reserve with federal royalty oil from the Gulf of Mexico...
The Enron Corp. bankruptcy protection filing may affect the ability of US pipeline companies to finance the expansions needed to meet dramatic increases in natural gas demand ...
Not since the mid-1980s has OPEC's crude oil market share been below 32%. But full compliance with the organization's Jan. 1 output targets plus Iraqi production of 2 million ...
The value of global energy merger and acquisition transactions was $243.5 billion last year, down 8% from 2000, according to consulting company John S. Herold Inc., Norwalk, Conn...
The bankrupt Enron Corp., Houston, has started the process of shedding assets with UBS Warburg buying its wholesale trading business and BG Group PLC announcing plans to buy all...
The US Congress is close to passing pipeline safety legislation. Action is overdue. But it's an election year, when politics can breed destructive surprises. And attention to ...
The year 2001 was a difficult one for those seeking US energy policy reforms. Distractions were many. The year began with the two major political parties at war with each over...
The editorial "Punishment vs. prog ress" (OGJ, Jan. 14, 2002, p. 17) gives the illusion of industry whining when it also spells out the very approach to make real progress.
