Volume 64, Issue 12

In the aftermath of Hurricane Ivan, the US Department of the Interior’s Minerals Management Service (MMS) has monitored the progress made by the oil and gas industry in returning...

This year’s Society of Exploration Geophysicists convention enjoyed an energy that it hasn’t had in recent years.

ChevronTexaco Corp. subsidiary Chevron Overseas Congo Ltd. and its partners have a significant discovery at the Lianzi-1 exploration well in the deepwater area between Angola ...

The Cytec Control Station with the Petroleum Navigator 3D software package will link one common operational environment together (drilling operation, intervention, seismic, and...

Two years after installation on Total E&P UK Plc’s North Alwyn A&B oil platforms, Groveley’s point infrared gas detectors have proven the company’s claim to reduce maintenance...

Operators around the world have experienced the benefits of rotary steering and closed-loop (RCLS) navigation.

Varco has developed a system that enables continuous circulation of drilling fluid throughout the drilling process - even while making and breaking drill pipe connections.

As an exploration play, sand injectites remain lightly explored and poorly understood.

Development work is picking up pace across the North Sea, with five new projects under way last month alone.

BJ Services has appointed Brad Pellegrin area manager - North America for BJ Tubular Services.

Halliburton subsidiary KBR and Petrobras have achieved a milestone in the development of the Barracuda and Caratinga fields in the Campos basin offshore Brazil.

Marathon Petroleum Norge AS, a subsidiary of the Houston-based Marathon Oil Corp., has awarded Advanced Production and Loading AS (APL) a Nkr400 million-contract to supply the...

Although operators originally used wireline tractors in the North Sea, their use has spread to other global locations.