Mosaic Oil progresses Underground Gas Storage discussions
May 26, 2009
Mosaic Oil is in discussions with a number of prospective customers for the utilisation of underground gas storage at the Silver Springs-Renlim gas field in Queensland,

EnerBrite to double production with Infill drilling and gas flood program
May 21, 2009
EnerBrite Technologies Group, along with its wholly owned subsidiary Rebel Oil Company, declared its plan to implement an infill drilling and gas flood program.

Obama budget cuts oil, gas R&D
Apr 30, 2009
U.S. deepwater oil and gas research and development will be cut by $20 million dollars, while $40 million in oil company fees will be added to American ...
By WILLIAM STOICHEVSKI

Rocksource buys into survey brain’s start-up
Apr 21, 2009
Houston-based survey-tech-driven oil company Rocksource will pay $5 million to have a piece of the the brainy enterprise ...

PNGS commences commercial operations on 2nd cavern at Pine Prairie
Apr 3, 2009
PAA Natural Gas Storage, LLC (PNGS) has commenced commercial operations on the second of three storage caverns at its Pine Prairie facility in

ONS 2010: industry bookings setting record
Apr 2, 2009
Bookings of space by companies hoping to exhibit their work at Norway’s big oil and gas tradeshow and conference have ...

Tekla, HGG link software, tubular designs
Apr 1, 2009
Builders of tubular structures got a boost this week with the release of Finnish company Tekla and Dutch outfit HGG's software solution for tubular profiles.

Shaw wins contract for Sonatrach LPG recovery facility in Algeria
Apr 1, 2009
The Shaw Group says its Energy & Chemicals Group has been selected to provide engineering services for Sonatrach’s planned 24 million standard cubic meters

Po Valley to test Bezzecca gas well in Italy
Apr 1, 2009
Po Valley Energy will proceed forward to flow testing of its Bezzecca #1 well 20 km outside Milan in Northern Italy following evaluation of log results.

StatoilHydro hands $50M high-pressure gig to Aker Solutions
Mar 30, 2009
Norwegian oil company StatoilHydro has awarded Norway-based supplier-contractor Aker Solutions the 330-million-kroner ($49.4 million) job of delivering ...

Robot fish to find oil, gas leaks
Mar 20, 2009
Robot fish could soon be patrolling offshore zones suspected of leaking hydrocarbons, if the brainchild of U.K. scientists succeeds in a test release of ...
By WILLIAM STOICHEVSKI

Roxar revels in suite sale
Mar 20, 2009
Norway-based reservoir flow expert Roxar has won a 10-million-kroner ($1.6 million) software contract with an unnamed Middle Eastern client enamoured by ...

Nobel winners help Eni honor "reservoir-tech"
Mar 18, 2009
A gold medal minted in Italy and €300,000 in prize money have been awarded a Canadian reservoir engineering professor and an American using magnets to ...

StatoilHydro discovers Asterix gas, looks to robots
Mar 16, 2009
StatoilHydro has struck gas in the Asterix prospect of the Norwegian Sea, an area of smallish undeveloped gas discoveries for which Norway’s oil company is developing ...

Teekay, Merrill to build Canadian LNG floater
Mar 13, 2009
Vancouver-based shipping giant Teekay has announced an agreement with Merrill Lynch Commodities, Inc. to jointly develop a project to ...

GE's Jenbacher engine helps Russian producers to reduce flare emissions
Mar 12, 2009
GE Energy is supplying 12 of its Jenbacher gas engines to support Russian oil and gas producer Monolit LLC's project to reduce emissions by utilizing previously wasted gas

StatoilHydro finds imaging partner in Paradigm
Mar 6, 2009
StatoilHydro has awarded Netherlands-based oilfield software producer Paradigm a contract for the company’s subsea ...

Engineer course offers laid-off "way forward"
Mar 5, 2009
London-based CD-adapco is offering a 'No Engineer Left Behind' program that gives "free" CAE software and training worth $25,000 to recently ...

Africa-Italy pipeline digs up dreadnought
Feb 18, 2009
The Italo-Algerian company building a deepwater pipeline between North Africa and the Continent have said a French World War I ...

HiLoad prepares for tanker service
Feb 13, 2009
Norwegians of hoping to give oceangoing tankers a way to collect fuel directly from deepwater oilfields have floated out their solution on a barge from ...

Roxar launches third-generation multiphase meter
Feb 10, 2009
Roxar MPFM 2600 and Zector Technology have launched flow dynamics with greater accuracy and detail for oil and gas operators, the Norwegian-based metering company has announced.

ConocoPhillips catches “fugitive” savings
Jan 26, 2009
Using infrared technology, a ConocoPhillips program to catch “fugitive” gas emissions looks set to save $10 million  a year at select ...

EMGS loses patent battle
Jan 20, 2009
Norwegian survey outfit EMGS has lost a patent decision to Schlumberger in a London court which decided the Oslo-based company could not make money in ...

Canadian export credit sought for Norway rigs to Mexico
Jan 16, 2009
A rare Norway-based land drilling technology company has signed a pact with Latin American partners to become a drilling contractor within reach of a two-rig hire ...
By WILLIAM STOICHEVSKI