Enhanced Energy Recovery News articles from August 1998

Enhanced Energy Recovery News archives from August 1998

Waxing Solves Sandliner Problem.
August 1, 1998... Rick Luhning, formerly with Gibson Petroleum Co., Ltd. (1900, 605 5th Ave. SW, Calgary, Alberta T2P 3H5 Canada; Tel: 403/298-9300), now president and CEO of Arkril Enterprises (151 Oakside Circle SW, Calgary, Alberta T2V 4R1, Canada; Tel:...

Single Well Vapor Extraction Process.
August 1, 1998... Earl M. Jensen, Kurt D. Uhrich, and David J. Hassan, all with Amoco Canada (240 4th Ave. SW, PO Box 200, Station M, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2P 2H8; Tel: 403/233-1313) developed a technique in which a horizontal well with a raised end or toe...

GAS FLOODING: West Hackberry Air Injection Update.
August 1, 1998... Zaki Bassiouni, chairperson of the petroleum engineering department of Louisiana State University (CEBA 3516, Baton Rouge, LA 70803; Tel: 504/388-6040, Fax: 504/388-6039) provided EERN with an update on the West Hackberry air injection project,...

French Institute Improves WAG.
August 1, 1998... Jean-Claude Moulu, Francois Kalaydjian, and Christian Deruyter of Institut Francais du Petrole (1 Ave. de Bois-Preau, 92502 Rueil Malmaison, France) have developed a method to increase the efficiency of the water-alternating-gas (WAG) recovery...

GOVERNMENT: Industry Asks for Fair Royalties.
August 1, 1998... Four organizations representing the U.S. oil industry have proposed significant changes designed to improve a proposal by the U.S. Mineral Management Service (1849 C St. NW, LMS-4230, Washington, DC 20240; Tel: 202/208-3985) for evaluating...

Regional Petroleum Product Reserve?
August 1, 1998... A Dept. of Energy (1000 Independence Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20585; Tel: 202/586-5000) report, commissioned two years ago when high prices and low stocks of heating oil raised consumer concerns, has concluded that a government-controlled...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Fresh Search in Fallow U.K. Areas.
August 1, 1998... Experts believe advanced technology now offers the prospect of finding oil and gas reserves in offshore U.K. waters that have already been searched and abandoned as fallow. Science, energy and industry minister John Battle has confirmed...

Low Prices Threaten Marginal Wells, Jobs.
August 1, 1998... Independent producers operating throughout the Rocky Mountains report employee lay-offs, well shut-ins and potential bankruptcy as a result of the continuing dive in oil prices, according to the results of a recent survey conducted by the...

Two EOR Companies Merge.
August 1, 1998... U.S. Crude, Ltd. (673 E. Cooley Dr., Suite 121, Colton, CA 92324; Tel: 888/872-7833, Fax: 909/824-1907) announced on July 30, 1998, that it has completed its merger with U.S. Thermo-Tech, Inc. An overwhelming majority of shareholders from both...

FPL Waives Orimulsion Appeal.
August 1, 1998... Florida Power & Light Co. (FPL, Box 14,000, Juno Beach, FL 33408; Tel: 305/552-3888) will not appeal the denial by the state's governor and cabinet to burn the alternative fossil-fuel Orimulsion at its Manatee power plant on Florida's west...

Swap for Strategic Oil Reserve Space.
August 1, 1998... In an effort to increase the size of the nation's emergency oil stockpile without adding to government spending, DOE (1000 Independence Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20585; Tel: 202/586-5000) issued an offer to store privately-owned crude oil in...

Most Companies Earnings Slide.
August 1, 1998... Dealing with low oil prices and the crisis in the Asian market, most companies posted lower earnings in the second quarter of the year. Phillips Petroleum Co. (16 Phillips Bldg., Bartlesville, OK 74004; Tel: 918/661-6600) reports...

FRACTURING: Control of Fine Particulate Flowback.
August 1, 1998... Transport of particulate solids during oil production is a continuing problem, which can cause significant wear in the oil production equipment and also can clog or plug the wellbore. Also, transported particulates must be separated from the...

Shaped Charge Improves Perforation.
August 1, 1998... Researchers with Marathon Oil Co. (PO Box 3128, 5555 San Felipe, Houston, TX 77253-3128; Tel: 713/629-6600) designed an apparatus for perforating and stimulating a subterranean formation that is penetrated by a well bore to establish fluid...

CHEMICAL EOR: Rugged Polymer, Gel Composition.
August 1, 1998... Researchers with Phillips Petroleum Co. (16 Phillips Bldg., Bartlesville, OK 74004; Tel: 918/661-6600) synthesized a composition consisting of a nitrogen-containing olefinic compound and a process for using it to produce a water-soluble...

REFINING: Three Phase Separation.
August 1, 1998... The standard process for crude oil desulfurization is hydrodesulfurization (HDS), in which carbon-sulfur bonds are reductively cleaved by reaction with hydrogen at elevated temperature and pressure in the presence of a heterogeneous catalyst,...

Severely Deactivated Reforming Catalysts.
August 1, 1998... There is a need for a process to regenerate catalysts that have been more severely deactivated than is usual, for example, due to multi- cycle of on-oil regeneration operations. Researchers with Exxon Research & Engineering Co. (Corporate...

ENVIRONMENT: Oil/Water Separation with Oil Demulsifiers.
August 1, 1998... Owing to the opening up of new oil fields and changed production conditions in older fields, there is a constant need for novel demulsifiers that result in a more rapid separating of produced water and crude oil and very small amounts of...

MODELING: Determining Petroleum Reservoir Properties.
August 1, 1998... Petroleum reservoir properties are basic parameters required in reservoir and production analyses. In many cases, the fluid and rock properties for specific reservoirs have not been measured in laboratories and correlations must be used....

Oilfield Software Goes to China.
August 1, 1998... Maurer Engineering, Inc. (2916 West TC Jester, Houston, TX 77018; Tel: 713/683-8227) has been awarded contracts valued at over $1 million from China National Petroleum Co. (20 Xueyuan Rd., PO Box 910, Beijing 100083, China; Tel: 010-62094113,...

CALENDAR.
August 1, 1998... September 1-2, 1998, Fort McMurray Oil Sands Trade Show, MacDonald Island Center, Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada. For information: Tel: 403/244-6540. September 1-3, 1998, Interactive Energy '98, Doubletree Hotel-Post Oak, Houston, TX. For...

HEAVY OIL: Oil Sand Slurry for Pipeline Transport.
August 1, 1998... Slurry pipelines have begun to replace the conveyor belt systems used to move mined oil sand from the mine site to the extraction plant. Syncrude Canada, Ltd. (9911 MacDonald Ave., Ft. McMurray, Alberta T9H 3H5 Canada; Tel: 403/790-5911)...

Phillips Wins License for Offshore Greenland.
August 1, 1998... Phillips Petroleum Greenland, Ltd., a division of Phillips Petroleum Co. (16 Phillips Bldg., Bartlesville, OK 74004; Tel: 918/661-6600), has been awarded a 34% interest in and operatorship of the Sisimiut exploration license off the western...