Oil & Gas

SUEZ Environnement's new office will position the company to bring additional offerings to petrochemical, power, oil and gas industries

SUEZ Environnement has announced that it has opened a business development office in Houston, Texas to better serve existing and future clients in the petrochemical, oil and gas, and power industries.

An eco-friendly biodegradable green 'herding' agent that can be used to clean up light crude oil spills on water has been developed by researchers from New York

Derived from the plant-based small molecule phytol abundant in the marine environment, the new substance would potentially replace chemical herders currently in use. According to John, professor of chemistry in City College's Division of Science, "the best known chemical herders are chemically stable, non-biodegradable, and hence remain in the marine ecosystem for years."

The report is now presented showing the reasons behind the incident, when 42,800 gallons of fracking fluid — boiling up from thousands of feet underground — spewed into the streets and into Arlington storm sewers and streams

Two months ago, 100 homes in Arlington had to be evacuated as fracking fluid spilled out of a drilling site onto the city streets.

Now we know officially what happened, why it happened, and why Arlington officials are blaming the drilling company for "unacceptable behavior."

Clean-up costs associated with an oil pipeline rupture that dumped as much as 2,400 barrels of crude have exceeded $60 million. Plains All American Pipeline that owned the pipeline to cover clean-up costs

Cleanup costs hit a peak of about $3 million a day after a ruptured pipe spilled as much as 101,000 gallons of oil along the Gaviota coast in Santa Barbara County last month, said Meredith Mathews, a spokeswoman for Plains All American Pipeline, which owns the broken pipeline.

California regulators expanded their list of thousands of state-permitted oil and gas wells where below-ground injections may be contaminating drinking-water reserves

State water officials already have acknowledged that improperly permitted oilfield operations have contaminated underground aquifers that are federally protected because they hold current or potential sources of drinking water.

The new water depth record of 2,923 metres (9,589 feet) was set while completing a combined sampling and piezocone penetration testing (PCPT) borehole to 62 metres (203 feet) below the seafloor

The United States Geological Survey released its first comprehensive assessment of the link between thousands of earthquakes and oil and gas operations, identifying and mapping 17 regions where quakes have occurred

The report was the agency’s broadest statement yet on a danger that has grown along with the nation’s energy production.

Aquarion Group, a Swiss provider of advanced water systems and technologies for the oil and gas industry, acquired Membran-Filtrations-Technik GmbH of Germany 

MFT, based in Cologne, designs, manufactures and services membrane equipment for potable, process and pure water production. It’s involved in brackish and seawater desalination, wastewater treatment, water recycling and reuse in energy, power generation, food and beverage manufacturing.

US scientists develop oil repellent mesh inspired by lotus leaves

Lotus leaves could help to clean up oil spills without using powerful chemicals, according to new research from Ohio State University. 

Scientists at the university developed a special mesh material inspired by the lotus leaf and its"lotus effect".

The mesh uses a nano-engineered coating to repel oil, but let water through – the opposite effect of the leaves which repel water, but not oil.