Anadarko, El Paso Corp. name new CEOs Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and El Paso Corp. both recently named new executives to head their respective companies.
While US spending is flat, worldwide exploration and production expenditures will increase modestly this year, according to a handful of analysts conducting E&P spending surveys...
Talisman Energy Inc., Calgary, has completed late last month the long-awaited sale of its 25% stake in Sudan's Greater Nile Oil Project (GNOP) to New Delhi-based ONGC Videsh Ltd...
With Japanese financial backing, Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf oil-exporting states have confirmed they will provide Jordan with crude and fuel oil, replacing supplies from...
Iraq has formally rejected a United Nations Security Council resolution, passed unanimously Mar. 28, that authorizes UN Sec. Gen. Kofi Annan to administer the oil-for-aid program...
The regulatory hangover from the Enron Corp. debacle and the California power crisis continues (see Editorial, p. 19). Last month the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission took...
Despite continued uncertainty over oil supplies from Nigeria and Iraq, oil futures prices dipped last week after the US Department of Energy and the American Petroleum Institute...
The oil and gas industry is becoming much more interconnected and moving towards "mutual interdependence," according to Sharaf Salamah, president of Saudi Refining Inc.
Petroleum Geo-Services recently acquired a regional, 3,660 km nonexclusive 2D seismic survey over the deepwater Orange basin off the west coast of South Africa (Fig. 1).
The US Senate, on a 56-43 vote Mar. 25, rejected efforts to revive an expired "Superfund" toxic waste tax on industry. Before 1995, oil and chemical companies were charged a fee...
The Mar. 10, 2003, issue of the OGJ, p. 10, included a letter to the editor from Mr. John B. Somers II, president of High Plains Petroleum Corp., entitled "Limits on federal land...
While trying to define a topic for this column, I was torn between discussing the current military conflict in Iraq or its related oil price volatility effects on the US. After...
Subsea wellhead pressure-temperature transmittersThe new PTX 400 Series underwater wellhead pressure-temperature transmitters have been specifically designed for long term use...
A desperate governor has good reason to overplay Federal Energy Regulatory Commission findings of market manipulation during California's energy crisis of 2000-01. The rest of...
Iran's long-held dream of becoming a major export route for oil from the Caspian Sea has taken another step forward with the completion of the first phase of a new pipeline from...
