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The article discusses a study which determined suitable line sizes for natural gas and export condensate pipelines in an onshore gas field development project in Algeria based on normal production and turndown conditions using steady state simulations (PIPESIM). Topics include gas and condensate compositions used in the study, major units which make up the project's central processing facility (CPF), and gas and condensate specifications for export.

The article discusses the uncertainties in the recovery of U.S. midstream operators, as of June 2021. Topics covered include expected move by crude oil producers in the Middle East and Russia to increase output to meet rising refinery crude runs, decline in U.S. gasoline demand in second-half 2020 from second-half 2019, and natural gas liquid (NGL) production statistics through February 2021.

The article discusses the benefits provided by integrated asset modelling (IAM) applied to gas fields supplying a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant. Topics include reason for substantial gaps that occur between potential asset value and realized asset value, ways advanced IAM yields rapid asset optimization, and finding of an IAM case study for an existing LNG-centered development.

The article offers information on higher oil reserves reported by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), in particular a dramatic growth in Iran's oil reserves. It mentions that oil reserves and production increasingly include natural gas liquids, along with impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on oil and gas industry.

The article informs that governments around the world issued recommendations and mandates to limit social interaction to slow the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), and the world community became familiar with new terminology including self-isolation, social distancing, mask requirements, and remote operations. It mentions that the impact of these recommendations and mandates resulted in sharp declines in economic activity for a few segments of the population.

The article presents several international news for oil and gas professionals. It discusses that Eni has started production from the Cabaça North development project in Block offshore Angola via the Armada Olombendo FPSO. It mentions that BW Energy Ltd. has been planning to drill exploration wells on Blocks G12-13 and H12-13 in offshore Southern Gabon.

Statistics are presented related to the imports and exports of crude and products , gas production on the basis of country, total costs and production.

The article discusses the need of U.S. ethylene producers to weigh plans regarding whether to add additional capacity. Topics covered include U.S. nameplate ethylene capacity following completion of all new plants and expansions, ethylene producers' primary concerns for 2020-2022, and factors that determine ethylene production costs. Production costs for major ethylene feedstock are also listed.

The article discusses the problems addressed in previous offset wells which helped improve drilling of Colibasi field development wells onshore in southern Romania's Dambovita county. Topics covered include the drilling history of Colibasi, one of the main drilling objectives for new wells, and drilling plans for 268 Colibasi. Recommended drilling parameters for each casing section are also listed.

The article reports on the lower financial results posted by the "Oil and Gas Journal" (OGJ) 150 group of oil and gas producers in 2019, compared to results in 2018, mainly due to lower commodity prices and higher impairments. Topics discussed include decline in net income of the OGJ150 group, requirements for oil and gas producers to qualify for the OGJ150, and the OGJ150 group's collective revenues in 2019.

The article focuses on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on global demand and supply of petroleum. It mentions that the global oil market balance is expected to turn from surplus to deficit in the third and fourth quarter of 2020; and mentions that the income elasticity of oil demand is high, that indicates that declines in economic growth, business, employment, and income lead to falls in oil demand.

The article reports that Egypt's Ministry of Petroleum & Mineral Resources (MOPMR) is advancing a number of downstream projects as part of its petroleum sector modernization program (PSMP), an integrated plan developed in 2016 as part of Egypt's strategy to reignite investment interest in its petroleum industry. It mentions program include increasing productivity and profitability related to production and distribution of petroleum products.

The article discusses the growth of the U.S. olefins producers in the 2019 transitioning to a dual focus on domestic and international ethylene markets. It mentions that Enterprise Products Partners LP and Navigator Holdings Ltd. completed construction of the first merchant ethylene export terminal at Morgan's Point, Texas.

The article examines the Khurais Central Processing Facility (KhCPF) team's experience in developing, executing, and implementing the two projects. It mentions that development, installation, and commissioning of the highpressure (HP) gas compressor swing line system and flare gas recovery system were executed based on these environmental principles; and also mentions the KhCPF implemented best practices for tackling environmental emissions indirectly.

The article discusses that global oil demand in 2019 suffered from the headwinds of the global economy, US-China trade war, shrinking global car sales, and rising civil unrests. It mentions the fall in oil demand growth in 2019 was certainly a consequence of the ongoing global macro headwinds; and also mentions that refinery utilization as a percentage of operable capacity averaged 90.3 percent in 2019, down from 93.1 percent 2018.

Statistics are given regarding the natural gas and its exporting in Mexico.

The article reports about the decrease in the growth of oil production. Topics include some countries' gas reserves changing to dry gas reserves after adding Natural Gas Liquids (NGL) reserves explicitly into oil reserves; and production cuts from the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) largely offsetting non-OPEC production growth.

The article offers news briefs in the oil and gas industry as of May 2021. Topics include a net loss registered by Pioneer Natural Resources in the first quarter, the acquisition by Neptune Energy of a 38.75% equity interest in the North Sea Pegasus West discovery from Spirit Energy, and the production sharing contract (PSC) agreement between APA Corp. and Egypt's Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources (MOP).

The article uses combining diagnostic measurements with the science of residual oil zones to understand how one horizontal well in a shale produces sweet oil while an adjacent lateral at the same depth produces sour oil at Permian basin. It mentions residual oil zones science enables operators to avoid drilling into a transmissive fracture and avoid low oil-cut laterals.

The article reports that pipeline-system capacity constraints in the Permian basin, Texas limited crude oil, natural gas, and NGL production in 2018, and fractionation capacity in Mont Belvieu, Texas. It informs that Epic Midstream Holdings LP will complete construction of a pipeline from West Texas to Corpus Christi, Texas. It presents information on the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) statistics which shows crude oil production in New Mexico and Texas.

The article offers oil and gas news briefs. Topics include the lease sale for oil and gas exploration tracts on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) drew no big oil companies and almost no competitive bidding January 6, 2021, and Magnetic Oil Ltd. has agreed to acquire OMV Petrom's interest in Kom-Munai LLP (KOM) and Tasbulat Oil Corp. LLP (TOC) in Kazakhstan, Central Asia.

The article reports on the publication of an assay by Total Oil Trading SA dated April 28, 2020, for Sururu crude oil, produced from Berbigão and Sururu fields in the BM-S-11-A consession of the Iara license in Brazil's deepwater Santos basin presalt. Topics include the production of crude oil and natural gas by operator Petróleu Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) in November 2019 and partners in the BM-S-11-A Consortium for Berbigão, Sururu, and West Atapu in addition to Petrobras.

The article focuses on federal court has struck down the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) rollback of most of 2016 rule meant to minimize the venting of natural gas from oil and gas storage vessels. Topics include the U.S. District Court for Northern District of California has ruled that BLM in 2018 did not do an adequate job, and the Administrative Procedure Act and the National Environmental Policy Act and had failed to fulfill its waste prevention obligations under the Mineral Leasing Act.

The article presents news briefs related to the exploration and development in the oil and gas industry. It discusses that the Vintage Energy Ltd. has advances the Vali gas discovery of Cooper and Eromanga basins in the Queensland, Australia. It mentions that Aker Energy Ghana Ltd. has altered its development plan for Pecan field in the Deepwater Tano Cape in the offshore Ghana.

The article discusses that Genel Energy declared a force majeure event impacting work on the Qara Dagh Block in the Kurdistan region of Iraq amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

The article reports on an announcement by Coro Energy plc that Duyung Production Sharing Contract partners will commission an independent assessment of Mako field resources offshore Indonesia, expected to be completed by the first quarter of 2020, using data collected from operations at the Tambak-1 well. The well was designed to appraise the Mako gas field and test the Tambak exploration prospect. Onsite gas composition analysis confirmed the high quality of natural gas from the field.

The article discusses 2018 second-quarter net income of 60 U.S.-based oil and gas producers and refiners earned totaling to 14.44 billion Canadian dollars exceeding 2017 second-quarter 6.45 billion Canadian dollars. It states the improved revenue collection owing to several factors including drilling activity accelerated, crude oil production increased, and companies such as Chevron corp., and ExxonMobil Corp., and refiners contributed. A chart is presented related to earnings of companies.

The article offers information on dissolved natural gas to reduce a crude oil's pour point and viscosity, improving its low-temperature mobility. It mentions reduction in friction loss of collector pipeline due to decreased viscosity. It also mentions increase in efficiency and reduction in energy consumption.

This article focuses on the India's grid development of natural gas pipelines plans to attain a growth in natural gas market. It discusses plan which include pipeline development and construction, capacity utilization, use of piped natural gas, and urban gas distribution. It also highlights that widespread pan-India natural gas pipeline connectivity was expected to increase uniform city gas distribution (CGD) network development in India.

The article offers information on hydration before hydraulic fracturing improves the connection between pores and natural fractures in Longmaxi natural gas shale in China. It also mentions that hydration serves as micro stimulation before hydraulic fracturing; complex fracture network reduces the required pumping pressure and cuts hydraulic fracturing costs; and imbibition results into more fractures by increasing contact between the shale and wellbore for better gas production.

The article focuses on influence of several factors on pipeline stress in seismic zones and actions to be taken to reduce the stress. It mentions that continuous expansion of long distance natural gas pipelines tend to encounter complex mountain landscapes requiring tunnel crossings. It also mentions that stress analysis of buried pipelines simplifies the interaction between pipe and soil to axial soil spring and lateral soil spring.

The article reflects on need for the underground gas storage (UGS) operators to have an understanding of the recommended practices and regulations enacted by the Protecting our Infrastructure of Pipelines and Enhancing Safety (PIPES) Act of 2016. It mentions that the U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has exercised the federal authority to regulate all underground natural gas storage sites.

The article reflects on oil output cuts as highlighted by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). It mentions extension of a production-cut agreement until the end of first-quarter 2018 for the oil and gas industries. It also highlights emergence of the need for continued OPEC and Russian rational guardianship.

The article reports that Nexo Solution, technical service provider, of South Texas gas plant has proved technology Exion GT system to remove hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and other contaminants from natural gas streams in field tests. Topics discussed include bulk removal of H2S in the presence of high levels of carbon dioxide (CO2), how gas is contacted by the triazine inside the scrubber, and how reaction byproducts can include monethanolamine (MEA).

The article offers forecast for pipeline construction in 2017. Planned pipeline construction to be completed in 2017 declined 27% from 2016, with anticipated products, natural gas and crude project completions all falling. In addition, overall future planned mileage also slipped, though products mileage increased, primarily driven by planned expansion of the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) network in India.

The article discusses the role of natural gas, renewable energy and unconventional gas production as solutions to meet the energy demand in India. Topics include the dependence of the country to the imported crude oil as source of energy, importance of investing in deepwater basins to increase oil production, and the unconventional gases such as shale gas, gas hydrates and coalbed methane.

The article provides various statistics pertaining to export and import of crude oil, crude price in the U.S., and demand and supply of the U.S. natural gas.

The article focuses on the increasing number of offshore explorations estimated in UK Continental Shelf (UKCS), Great Britain as per the organization Westwood Global Energy Group. Topics discussed include discovery of natural gas resource by the company Total SA, testing of prospective resources in Warwick by the organization Spirit Energy, and presents a chart on number of exploration plans.

The article reports that proper calibration can save yield by 0.4 percent of the large natural gas transfer metering system, which equals to 120-330 million dollars of extra revenue for the system, It mentions that the different manufacturers specify different inlet requirements focused on custody-transfer ultrasonic gas flow meters.

The article reports that increased recovery of hydrocarbon resources with high amounts of hydrogen sulfide has spurred the development of projects to process large volumes of sour gas. It mentions that the megaprojects includes unique process and design considerations operators address to ensure technical feasibility and potential profitability.

The article assesses the challenges facing European countries in exploiting their shale resources and the benefits shale gas development could bring to many European countries. Topics discussed include crucial barriers to rapid shale development across Europe, increase in the annual gas production in the U.S. between 2008 and 2012, and concerns of many Europeans to the potential direct and indirect environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing.

The article discusses the dominance of mesopores as the main contributors of shale gas in China. It examines the relationship between pore size distribution and the degree of thermal evolution for the complexity of shale gas. It also cites the efficacy of pore analysis to the success of shale gas exploration in the country.