Enhanced Energy Recovery News articles from September 1998

Enhanced Energy Recovery News archives from September 1998

HEAVY OIL: Arctic Course Plotted at DOE Workshop.
September 1, 1998... The Dept. of Energy (DOE, 1000 Independence Ave. SW, Washington, D.C. 20858; Tel: 202/586-6503) held a workshop (August 4-5, 1998) in Girdwood, Alaska to provide a forum for the challenges associated with recovery of heavy oil in the Arctic...

Desander for Downhole Oil/Water Separation.
September 1, 1998... Many medium or heavy oil wells producing from unconsolidated sandstone reservoirs experience high water production while still at relatively low recoveries. Although downhole oil/water separation (DHOWS) systems were recently developed to...

CHEMICAL EOR: United Heritage Begins A-S-P Flood.
September 1, 1998... United Heritage Corp. (2 N. Caddo St., Cleburne, TX 76031; Tel: 817/447- 5324) has completed construction of the company's pilot plant and field engineers from Surtek, Inc. (1511 Washington, Golden, CO 80401; Tel: 303/278-0877, Fax:...

HORIZONTAL DRILLING: Newstar Resources, Inc. Sets Georgetown Drilling Program.
September 1, 1998... Newstar Energy of Texas, L.L.C. (15311 Vantage Pkwy. W., Suite 330, Houston, TX 77032; Tel; 281/59-3893), the gulf coast operating arm of Newstar Resources, Inc. (Houston, TX) has reviewed the data from its 32 square mile 3-D seismic survey on...

Nuevo Successful Onshore California.
September 1, 1998... Nuevo Energy Co. (1221 Lamar, Houston, TX 77010; Tel: 713/652-0706) continued its successful horizontal drilling program onshore California with the recent completion of two wells that set production rate records for the company. The Hopkins...

FLOODING: Faulting Effects Modeled.
September 1, 1998... William A. England of BP Statoil Alliance (BP Exploration, Chertsey Rd., Sunbury on Thames, Middlesex TWl6 7LN, U.K.; Tel: 1932 764606, Fax: 1932 763524) and Christopher Townsend of Statoil R&D (Centre, 7005 Trondheim, Norway) Have conducted a...

Injection into the Gas Cap.
September 1, 1998... Researchers with Atlantic Richfield Co. (515 S. Flower St., Los Angeles, CA 90071; Tel: 213/486-3511) have worked out a new technique for enhanced oil recovery from an oil well characterized by production of a mixture of oil and gas through a...

REFINING: Conversion of Bitumen to Lower Boiling Products.
September 1, 1998... Bruce M. Sankey, Peter S. Maa, and Roby Bearden, Jr. of Exxon Research and Engineering Co. (4999 Scenic Hwy., Baton Rouge, LA 70805-3359; Tel: 504/359-8108) discovered a visbreaking process for the thermal conversion of the organic component...

Construction Starts on Heavy Crude Upgrader.
September 1, 1998... Venezuelan companies Jantesa (Tel: 011-58-2-285-1211) and Vepica (Calle 4 Urbina, Caracas, Venezuela; Tel: 011-58-2-204-3111), and their partner, JGC Corp. (2-2-1 Ohremachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100 Japan; Tel: 011-81-3-3279-5441, Fax:...

Upgrades Continue Despite Budget Cuts.
September 1, 1998... Falling oil prices may have deflated Pemex's (Mirena Nacional No. 329, Bldg. B2, Floor 11, Colonia, Huasteca, Mexico - D.F. 11311) overall budget, but its massive refinery modification program remains afloat. The national oil company of Mexico...

RESERVOIR CHARACTERIZATION Projects to Improve Basic Knowledge.
September 1, 1998... As U.S. oil reservoirs become more difficult to produce, a better understanding of the structure and characteristics of a reservoir is becoming increasingly important. For much of the oil industry's history, limitations of technology made such...

INDUSTRY NEWS: Future Petroleum Acquires Assets.
September 1, 1998... Future Petroleum Corp. (PO Box 25253, Dallas, TX 75225; Tel: 214/350- 7602) has closed on the acquisition of oil and gas properties from Bargo Energy Resources, Ltd. (700 Louisiana St., Suite 3700, Houston, TX 77002; Tel: 713/236-9792) for a...

BP, Amoco Merger Enters Top Trio.
September 1, 1998... BP (1 Finsbury Circus - Britannic House, London, England EC2M7BA; Tel: 071-496-4000) and Amoco (PO Box 3011, Naperville, IL 60566; Tel: 708/420-5111) have agreed to join forces to create one of the strongest and most competitive international...

Marathon to Buy Tarragon.
September 1, 1998... USX Corp.'s Marathon Oil Co. (PO Box 3128, 5555 San Felipe, Houston, TX 77253-3128; Tel: 713/629-6600) announced that the arrangement involving the indirect acquisition of all the outstanding securities of Tarragon Oil and Gas, Ltd. (2500 500...

Rathmell Honored at SPE Meeting.
September 1, 1998... The Society of Petroleum Engineers (PO Box 833836, Richardson, TX 75083; Tel: 972/952-9393) will recognize 27 members who have made exceptional professional and technical contributions to the petroleum industry during the 73rd Society of...

Baker Hughes Completes Acquisition.
September 1, 1998... Baker Hughes, Inc. (3900 Essex Lane, Houston, TX 77027; Tel: 713/439- 8600) has completed the acquisition of Western Atlas, Inc. (10205 Westheimer, Houston, TX 77042; Tel: 713/266-5700) following approval by the shareholders. Under the terms of...

SLH and Syntroleum Conclude Merger.
September 1, 1998... Syntroleum Corp. (400 S. Boston, Tulsa, OK 74103; Tel: 918/592-7900) announced that it has completed its merger with SLH Corp. (2 Executive Dr., Somerset, NJ 08873; Tel: 732/469-8999). Prior to the merger, SLH owned approximately 31% of the...

Key Energy Buys Dawson Production.
September 1, 1998... Key Energy Group, Inc. (2 Tower Center Floor 10, East Brunswick, NJ 08816; Tel: 732/247-4822) and Dawson Production Services, Inc. (112 E. Pecan St., Suite 100, San Antonio, TX 78205-1516; Tel: 210/476-0420) announced that the two companies...

Ekofisk II Begins Production.
September 1, 1998... Phillips Petroleum Co.'s (Bartlesville, OK 74004; Tel: 918/661-6600) massive North Sea redevelopment project--Ekofisk II--began producing oil and gas in mid-August on schedule and under budget. Four years in the making, the project makes it...

Tri-Valley Predicts Oil Price Recovery.
September 1, 1998... At the annual convention of the Kansas Independent Oil & Gas Assoc. (105 S. Broadway, Wichita, KS 67202; Tel: 316/263-7297), F. Lynn Blystone, a Californian independent oil and gas producer and president and CEO of Tri-Valley Corp. foresees an...

ENVIRONMENT: DOE Supports Louisiana Air Quality Tests.
September 1, 1998... The DOE's Office of Fossil Energy (1000 Independence Ave. SW, Washington, DC 20585; Tel: 202/586-5000) has awarded a $200,000 grant to Louisiana to study the air emissions at an oil field waste treatment facility near the community of Grand...

Award for Lower- Cost Disposal of Wastes.
September 1, 1998... Disposing of oily drill cuttings and fluids from oil and gas operations imposes major costs on producers, particularly those operating offshore. Producers in the Gulf of Mexico, for example, commonly must barge wastes to onshore disposal sites...

MTBE Garners California Lawsuits.
September 1, 1998... More legal troubles are piling up in California for methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), the controversial gasoline additive accused of contaminating water across the state. The latest action is a lawsuit by a San Francisco-based environmental...

GOVERNMENT: Governors Applaud NPR-A Alaskan Victory.
September 1, 1998... Calling it a victory for states' rights, leaders of the Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission (900 Northeast 23rd St., Oklahoma City, OK 73105; PO Box 53127, Oklahoma City, OK 73152-3127; Tel: 405/525-3556; Email: iogcc@oklaosf.state.ok.us)...

DOE Reissues Oil Storage Solicitation.
September 1, 1998... The DOE (1000 Independence Ave. SW, Washington, D.C. 20858; Tel: 202/586-6503) is reissuing its offer to provide short-term crude oil storage space for commercial firms at its Strategic Petroleum Reserve West Hackberry site near Lake Charles,...

GAS UPGRADING Vapor Recovery Also Removes VOCs.
September 1, 1998... During processing of natural gas, water or water vapor is commonly removed through the use of absorbents such as glycols. It is recognized that the water vapor that exits the reboiler contains volatile organic compounds, including benzene,...

CALENDAR.
September 1, 1998... October 1, 1998, PTTC Rocky Mts. Region Co-Sponsored Event - Integrated Petroleum Applications for the PC - Hands-On Computer Workshop, Golden, CO. Held in conjunction with Geographix. Contact: Tel: 303/273-3107. October 15, 1998, PTTC...

Optimizing Fractured Reservoir Production.
September 1, 1998... When used in a fractured reservoir, horizontal sinks (hydraulically fractured wells or horizontal wells) can intersect several fractures, resulting in better oil production than when vertical wells are used. Kozo Sato of Teikoku Oil Co....

Chevron, ARCO North Slope Alliance.
September 1, 1998... Chevron U.S.A., Inc. (PO Box 7753, San Francisco, CA 94120-7753; Tel: 415/894-7700) and ARCO Alaska, Inc. (700 G. St., Anchorage, AK 99501; Tel: 907/276-1215) have signed two agreements that will speed up oil exploration in more than 2.8...