Added-water transportation moves heavy crude in dispersed form without adding surfactant. Heavy oil-water pipe flow is simple and cheap. Source: News
CAFE program midterm evaluation should consider oil-market changes
Unforeseen changes in the oil market need consideration in the US Environmental Protection Agency’s imminent review of an important element of transportation-fuel regulation. Source: News
Widespread RFS frustration
Stakeholders beyond refiners are dissatisfied with the federal Renewable Fuel Standard. Advanced biofuel manufacturers and a major US environmental organization also expressed their frustration over its implementation at a Mar. 17 Capitol Hill briefing. Source: News
Nelson-Farrar Quarterly Costimating: Indexes for selected equipment items
Continuing a trend starting in 1983, the Nelson-Farrar refinery construction index rose quickly to 2,569.8 in September 2014 from 2,535.6 in January of the same year before weakening to 2,544.0 in December of 2015. Source: News
Europe's costly energy experience seldom in US news
Governments can’t require the replacement of cheap energy by expensive energy without increasing the cost of energy. But they can waste a lot of money pretending otherwise. Source: News
Shot-coke mitigation study improves revenues for Chinese refinery
A comprehensive study of operating conditions at commercial cokers of a China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) subsidiary and a pilot-scale delayed coker yielded recommendations for new operational parameters that the refinery has implemented to help mitigate shot-coke formation and, as a result, sharply boost profitability of its coking business. Source: News
The oil weapon returns
Donald Trump, if elected president, would deploy the once-scorned “oil weapon” to pursue geopolitical goals. One of many problems with this strategy is that his central target learned, long ago, it doesn’t work. Source: News
Multivariate analysis correlates completions, EUR for Canada's Bakken
The heterogeneity of oil and gas reservoirs across large resource plays, such as the Bakken, requires operators look at a combination of completion inputs to maximize rates and recoveries. Source: News
IOR focus shifting
Industry has advanced application of its improved oil recovery (IOR) techniques to unconventional reservoirs using horizontal drilling, but at least one petroleum engineer questions whether conventional reservoir management might be neglected in the process. Source: News
Larne basin exploration weighs Carboniferous potential
Northern Ireland’s Larne basin is sparsely explored, with only one oil and gas exploration well drilled in 1971 in the main fairway of the basin. New seismic technology and a recent gas show in a gas storage site test, however, are leading to new conventional exploration. Source: News