Oil & gas news

January 2011: Kay Sever examines the importance of a great culture between operations and maintenance cannot be over-emphasised because it affects production, cost and morale.

Fridtjof Schucht and Stephen Harrison, Linde Gases, Germany, discuss the harmonised system of classification and labelling of chemicals.

Murphy Oil Corporation has announced that it has not found commercial quantities of oil in its recent drilling operations in Congo.

Total has announced that its affiliate Total E&P UK has made a new gas and condensate discovery in the West of Shetland on the United Kingdom Continental Shelf

A new technology that could help release some of the currently unusable energy in an estimated 2 billion t of US coal waste has been successfully demonstrated by a Department of Energy (DOE) supported project. The hyperbaric centrifuge technology is aimed at separating the fine coal particles from water, allowing their recovery for energy, and marks a step forward in clean coal separation.

IHS Global Insight analyses the impact of the Queensland floods on the region’s coal production and resulting impact on coal prices.

Petrobras has revealed that in December it reached three new records in Brazil for monthly, annual and daily oil production averages.

Wood Mackenzie study shows path to job growth and more government revenue is through increased access to oil and gas reserves.

Statoil will have the Snøhvit LNG plant back up to full capacity by the end of January after it was forced to shut down on 20 December due to a technical fault.

Iraq has agreed to build an oil pipeline to Jordan to increase the supply of crude oil.