An effective mobile technology for the treatment of saline sludge from oil and gas exploration.
INTRODUCTION Saline water and sludge produced during oil and gas exploration are usually stored on site (1). The current disposal of contaminated materials is inefficient and costly (2) and the remoteness of many sites complicates the disposal process as these sites are only accessible in winter (3)....

Desalination of saline sludges using ion-exchange column with zeolite.
INTRODUCTION Soils may be salinized as a result of resource extraction and other human activities. However, most of soil salinity in western Canada is resulting from oil and gas exploration (1). Saline water and sludge are usually produced during this process and stored on site. The current...

Alberta Offering Royalty Incentives to Spur Oil, Gas Drilling.
ENERGY RESOURCE-19 November 2008-Alberta Offering Royalty Incentives to Spur Oil, Gas Drilling(C)2008 JeraOne - http://www.jeraone.com The government of Alberta, Canada, citing the global economic crisis and a slowdown in oil and gas drilling throughout the province, plans to provide companies drilling certain new wells after January 1,...

Paradigm Higher Order Workflow(TM) Unveiled at SEG 2008.
Enables the concurrent execution of multi-disciplinary processes LAS VEGAS, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Paradigm(TM) ( http://www.pdgm.com/ ), a leading provider of enterprise software solutions to the global oil and natural gas exploration and production (E&P) industry, unveiled Paradigm Higher Order Workflow(TM) (H.O.W.(TM)), at the 78th Annual Meeting...

Alberta to offer transitional royalty rates to promote new drilling.
All existing wells and oil sands projects to move to new framework January 1, 2009 EDMONTON, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to the global economic crisis and a slowdown in oil and gas drilling throughout the province, the Government of Alberta will provide companies drilling certain...

What lies beneath: as our nation seeks more ways to extract energy from sources outside the Middle East, the Bush administration is increasingly turning to oil, minerals, and natural gas that lie within and just beyond the borders of our national parks.
As the afternoon sun casts a brilliant orange hue across the sandstone spires, a young girl and her father stop to rest, removing the burden of their backpacks, weighted down with water. The hike into the heart of Utah's red rock country wasn't particularly long, but it proved steep....

Disposable workers of the oil and gas fields: if you do not have a college degree, it is the best job in the West--unless you die ... unnoticed.
JOSHUA DUANE RIEDEL, a 23-year-old college student, grew up in Worland, Wyo., and, through hard work more than talent, became a star at Worland High School. In 1999, the statewide Casper Star-Tribune named him one of Wyoming's top 25 high school football players. His dream was to become an...

Loren says Palawan should get a share of earnings from Malampaya oil reserves.
PUERTO PRINCESA CITY, Palawan - Genuine Opposition senatorial candidate Loren Legarda said yesterday that the province of Palawan should get a share of the earnings derived from the oil reserves to be extracted from the Malampaya fields. Loren said that as Palawan gets a share from the...

Lexam Explorations Inc. - Third quarter results - Natural gas permitting advances - Evaluating large Nevada gold properties.
(All amounts expressed in Canadian dollars) TORONTO, Nov. 27 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LEXAM EXPLORATIONS INC. (TSX-V: LEX) is pleased to announce financial results for the third quarter 2006, an update on the Baca Oil and Gas Project in Colorado and the Company's gold exploration potential in north-eastern Nevada....

Cost to develop oil rim at Malampaya put at $850 million.
Byline: MYRNA M. VELASCO The consortium for the Malampaya gas field project has placed the development cost of the proposed oil rim at US$850 million, the same appraisal put up by Norwegian firm Norsk Hydro AS when it looked into the prospect before finally backing out. ...