Petroleum engineering is the application of chemistry, physics, math, geology, and engineering to discover a cost-effective way to explore and access petroleum. Most chemists in this field work for ...

The call for preparedness particularly hits southeast Texas hard after Hurricane Harvey caused massive issues for the Arkema ...

Editor's Note: This occasional series of articles looks at the vital things in our lives and the chemistry they are made of. Oil, the lifeblood of U.S. transportation today, is thought to start ...

Researchers report they have discovered a chemical reaction that might someday be used to process petroleum into useful compounds. For more than a decade in the middle of the 20th century ...

Aircrafts transport people, ship goods, and perform military operations, but the petroleum-based fuels that power them are in short supply. Researchers have found a way to generate an alternative ...

Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Graduate Excellence Scholarship, Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, University of Calgary, December 2013. Penn West Exploration Graduate Scholarship, ...

Petroleum, also called crude oil, ... Petroleum contains hydrocarbons of different molecular weights and the denser the petroleum the more difficult it is to process and the less valuable it is.