... of unenclosed gas processing plants is suitable for cold processing plants is suitable for cold weather operation provided appropriate winterizing procedures are followed. The result should be a safer operating plant with less investment. plant with less investment Introduction Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas...

.... Conservative estimates indicate there are five to ten billion barrels of oil there potentially the biggest discovery on the North American continent. Like so many other oil discoveries, it lies in a region where it is expensive, inconvenient, and difficult to operate. US government eastern part ship...

... year life of the facilities we build. Someone must stay and live on the site to operate and communicate. It's time to examine our Arctic areas as places to live on a permanent or semi-permanent basis. permanent or semi-permanent basis. This paper is intended to explore a few of the more obvious...

..., operator for Texaco North Sea U. K. Limited and California Oil Company Limited, drilled the first well - 38/29-1 - on the U. K. Continental Shelf after leases were issued in 1964. This well is the farthest offshore operation yet attempted and was drilled through the severe 1964 winter. The detailing...

... and remains to be proven through extended application. As early as 1947 development was undertaken on semi-automatic power operated drilling machinery. This system performed all the routine functions of round tripping the pipe in the hole and was controlled remotely by manipulation of hydraulic and pneumatic...

... producing wells by cyclic steam injection accounts for over 11 per cent of the current oil producing rate in California. This paper outlines some of the more important steam soak operations being conducted in 3-, California oil fields up to June, 1966. Theoretical predictions of initial oil rates after...

... relatedfacility sulphur bitumen Thickness leaseno operation construction greatcanadianoil sandsproject Centof extractionplant conveyor removalof fortmcmurray extractionof SOCIETY OF PETROLEUM ENGINEERS 6200 North Central Expressway Dallas, Texas 75206 THIS IS A PREPRINT SUBJECT TO CORRECTION GREAT...

... material farther, and at a lower cost, than is possible with other types of stripping equipment. The instability of the upper half of our overburden, such as sand, gravel, and the liker makes working a dragline near an open face a very hazardous operation. This unstable condition also makes it very...

... of energy will, of course, be required. With our present reserves of petroleum and coal, and atomic energy being rapidly developed, no shortage is anticipated. Upstream Oil & Gas shale oil shale retort complex reservoir Thickness operation requirement room-and-pillar method federal...

...- predicted recovery is 55 per cent. The ation of the raw oil are a few per 55 per cent figure is believed an cent of a high sulphur gasoline appropriate average for in situ together with sulphurous middle operations which will likely be necessary distillate, fuel oil and asphalt for overburn thicknesses over...

... for publication in one of the two SPE magazines with the paper. ABSTRACT Industrial shale-oil operations in North America and Europe predated the Drake discovery, but, since then, most have succumbed to competition from petroleum. However, the existence of enormous oil-shale resources in the Green River formation...

... The Office of Coal Research was established by Public Law 86-599, approved July 7, 1960. It was organized upon an operational basis in the spring of 1961, and awarded its first contract in August of that year. It is charged with the development through research of new and more efficient methods...

... operations leading to its discovery are described. INTRODUCTION The name Australia is applied both to a continent and to a nation. The two are not identical since the Island of Tasmania, south of the continent, is one of the states of the Commonwealth, and the Territory of Papua in Eastern New Guinea...

... day-today operations and future capital investment policies. The reasons he cited were the slowed rate of growth in demand and overcapacity in nearly every phase of oil operations. Judging from similar remarks by others in the industry, it appears that the future success of the industry...

... crude and product prices were weak, and as a result there was v~e 0'0 ~, keen competition for markets. Many companies came to the conc1usion that foreign operations were not the gold mines they had envisioned several years ago. ; f ec t1~96=-1~marked-=t7hes~tart0fc0;"nnn=ercia1rr-=o-;ducti=-70~nini...

...-production activities or in some cases by doing both. Over ~~vent>, perf~nt of a II the produc i ng cornpan i es listed " on the New York Stock Exchange for the past years have either sold out or have materially reorientated the pattern of their operations. On I y nine, or (i::wenty-n i ne pericent...

... changes, it has been necessary for many oil companies to acquire certain new facilities in order to strengthen their competitive positions and thereby protect their tremendous investments in crude oil reserves, pipe line facilities, refining operations, and marketing outlets. Principally, these needs have...

... 30 million 3/1) in 1967 compared with approximately 17 million B/D today. oil production producer domestic producer oil industry Net Income refinery middle east earnings asset and portfolio management crude operation expenditure journal of petroleum technology capital expenditure...

... should be sent to the Society of Petroleum Engineers office. ABSTRACT The first commercial and privately-financed plant to make gasoline and other petroleum products from a source other than crude oil was placed into successful operation during 1957. The techniques of mining the Gilsonite raw material...

... 1918 we find foreign exploration operations confined mainly to companies with extensive marketing organizations in foreign countries or to a few bold wildcatters who attempted to supplement production at home with fields abroad. Few indeed were those who had the money to risk on these ventures. It came...