Volume 96, Issue 48

Estimated Samotlor Production [171,947 bytes] One of Russia's largest and most financially stable oil companies, Tyumen Oil Co., has signed an alliance with Halliburton Energy...

Australia's North West Shelf Project (NWSP) partners have delayed building a second offshore gas pipeline to shore after downgrading forecasts for Western Australia's ...

The terrain of the Southern California oil pipeline system is rapidly changing again in response to increased oil production inland and a lack of pipeline capacity to handle it...

Finalizing sales accords for Malaysia LNG Tiga, the third LNG facility at Bintulu, Sarawak, is proving difficult, and Petronas officials are already conceding privately that production...

A confession is in order: Although the concept of outsourcing has been explained to me many times, I have never been fully convinced of its logic. Somewhere in the explanation...

An LNG terminal owned by Duke Energy Corp. unit Trunkline Gas Co. was incorrectly described as being on the Texas Gulf Coast (OGJ, Nov. 9, 1998, p. 37). The terminal is in Lake...

U.S. crude oil inventories have logged their biggest 1-month gain since 1990, American Petroleum Institute reported. U.S. crude oil inventories jumped 7.4% in October to 343.2...

The exploration and production (E&P) business is in the midst of a major transformation from an emphasis on cost-cutting to more diverse portfolio management practices. The industry...

The U.S. Minerals Management Service has scheduled a central Gulf of Mexico lease sale for Mar. 17 in New Orleans. Sale 172 will offer 3,758 blocks covering 20.13 million acres...

Intergrating Earth Models, Work Flows [125,911 bytes] What project's first phase aims to deliver [257,071 bytes] A coordinated industry project in its formative stages highlights...

Petroleum-rich Nigeria is facing its worst domestic crisis since the Biafran civil war of the late 1960s, with serious consequences for the U.S. Paul Michael Wihbey of the Institute...

The international upstream arm of Brazil's state oil company has signed a contract with Cuba's state oil company covering exploration off the island nation. Petroleo Brasileiro...

Offshore operators are considering using floating producing systems (FPSs) in 135 potential developments expected to come forward worldwide over the next 5 years. John Westwood...

Economics of U.S. deep gas exploration and production have improved significantly the past 3 years, one speaker told Gas Research Institute's Second Deep Gas Forum in Denver...

Malaysia's national oil company Petronas has signed a production-sharing contract (PSC) with Esso Production Malaysia Inc. (EPMI) and Petronas Carigali Sdn. Bhd. for the development...

The continuing slump in oil prices has cast doubts on the likelihood of near-term development of some of Norway's portfolio of discoveries. Wood Mackenzie Consultants Ltd....

Crude oil production from existing platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel may be declining (see related story, this page), but natural gas production continues to ramp up from...

Worldwide offshore oil production is expected to rise by about 17% to 1.23 billion metric tons (24.6 million b/d) in 2000. The increase to that level averages 4.4%/year during...

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded a $1.5 million contract to the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology at Socorro to determine the best way to boost San Juan basin...

The U.S. Department of Energy has expanded a southern Texas gas recovery program to include the northern Gulf of Mexico. DOE and the University of Texas' Bureau of Economic...

The U.S. Department of Energy will fund research projects at six universities to improve oil recovery technologies. DOE's Office of Fossil Energy will provide $5.5 million...

Sunwing's Zhaozhou Project [144,465 bytes] Where XCL is Developing Bohai Bay Oil [263,563 bytes] Two North American independents are marking development progress in oil fields...

How Chevron is Reconfiguring Point Arguello Project [85,150 bytes] The future of Chevron Corp.'s Gaviota oil and gas processing plant along the central California coast remains...

The U.S. Department of Energy has awarded Virginia Polytechnic Institute's Fiber & Electro-Optics Research Center, Blacksburg, Va., a grant to develop fiber sensor technology...