At present no company develops oil and gas fields without constructing geologic and hydrodynamic models. This is due in particular to the fact that recently the emphasis in design, planning and monitoring has shifted to overdissected and low-permeability reservoirs. To assess economic efficiency and optimal placement of wells and to predict hydrocarbon production levels, it is important to have...

RGNC: A focused Investment RGNC's activities are focused on the gathering & processing, compression, transportation (pipelines), and marketing of natural gas in some of the largest producing areas of the United States -primarily Texas, Louisiana, and Kansas. Their business model involves three revenue structures: charging transport fees based on amount of gas shipped, brokering sales from one e...

It is in the interest of any gas company to maintain the value of its pipelines and to protect them effectively against damage caused by third parties. As a result of global progress in high-resolution remote sensing and image processing technology, it is now possible to design natural gas pipeline monitoring systems with remote sensors and context-oriented image processing software. Recent dev...

Half of American households heat their homes with natural gas furnaces and 43% use it to heat their water. Hence, understanding residential natural gas consumption behavior has become a first-order problem. In this paper, we provide the first ever causally identified, microdata-based estimates of residential natural gas demand elasticities using a panel of approximately 300 million bills in Cal...

Given the fluctuations of oil price in international markets and its effect on global economy, it is expected that gas industry and use of gas as an alternative energy, have become more important. Therefore, identification of strategic decisions in this industry has attracted increasing attention of managers and researchers. This study aims to identify and evaluate strategic decisions in the Na...

Multivariate analysis of the association at baseline between problem drinking and cardiovascular risk factors among 1,233 white male employees of the Chicago Peoples Gas Company age 40-59 showed the 38 problem drinkers with significantly higher blood pressures and cigarette consumption and significantly lower relative weights than the others. Similar analyses among 1,899 white male employees of...

The materials used in this study include HDPE (HD100 from M. Holland Company), PP (Polypropylene 3281 from Total Petrochemicals USA, Inc.) and HIPS (IS200 from M. Holland Company). Each polymer was then compounded with SureFlo at two different levels, 5 and 10%. A Q-500 thermogravemetric analyzer (TGA) was used for the study. In each experiment, the sample (typical size ~ 10 mg) was heated from...