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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Sometime around 390 B.C., Plato published the allegory "Myth of the Cave" in his epic work "The Republic." In it he presented the following situation: Imagine a cave lit by a ...
Arup Energy, the offshore engineering unit of Over Arup & Partners, London, has unveiled a low-cost "self-installing" oil production platform concept. The design comes in five...
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...
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...
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...
Germany's Thyssen Rheinnstahl Technik GmbH has won formal approval to build a $1.8 billion, world-class grassroots refinery in northern Brazil. Thyssen's plans were disclosed...
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...
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...
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...
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...
9648jnld1.jpg The ethylene plant (photo below) at Kertih, owned and operated by Petronas, will be joined by a world-class olefins complex soon under a Petronas-Union Carbide joint...
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...
DRESSER-RAND CO., OLEAN, N.Y., HAS BEEN AWARDED A CONTRACT TO supply more than $10 million in compression equipment to Dow Chemical Co.'s ethylene plant in Freeport, Tex. ...
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...
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 ...
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...
After the manway is removed and covered with a flexible barrier, the robotic tank-entry device is stabbed through the barrier and bolted to the manway flange to form a vapor-tight...
Oil markets were hinging little hope on the outcome of last week's OPEC oil ministers' meeting in Vienna, which was under way at presstime. Brent crude futures hit a record...
Nigeria has stepped onto a long and difficult road toward national legitimacy-with international oil companies shuffling alongside. Its progress will help measure success of the...
The world's first steel-catenary riser on a floating production system was installed on the Petrobras semisubmersible P-18. [39,019 bytes] New technology is allowing operators...
