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After making it through the largest weather-induced shutdown ever to strike the region, operators in the prolific shale basin are sharing new numbers on how much production they were forced to curtail.
Digital data startups face many hazards, from potential customers unwilling to share data to buyers who just do not see the payoff in what they are selling.
Profits are up as drilling is down in Canada’s Montney play where a merger this week highlighted the continued drive to increase profits, which are benefitting from rising natural gas prices.
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The gas industry on both sides of the Atlantic is moving to create markets and infrastructure in Europe in anticipation of promoting blue hydrogen, derived from natural gas, as a transition fuel to support EU goals of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. -
Is it possible to fracture a well using power off the grid? The answer is yes, but sharp electric engineers are required. -
The Norwegian oil company is exiting assets in North Dakota and Montana after a decade of development. A Houston-based private equity producer will take over the shale fields. -
The Nord Stream 2 consortium is laying pipe in Danish waters despite US sanctions. A deal is anticipated that will allow the pipeline to be built if Germany defends Ukraine’s interests as a transit state for Russian gas.
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The two-well stimulation approach is delivering big savings to first adopters. A new report from Rystad highlights how the development is taking shape.
In striving to boost production of shale gas and tight oil, China is trying enhanced-hydraulic-fracturing technology and real-time data analysis in the Sichuan shale basin. In Daqing’s tight-oil fields, an alternative fracture-completion strategy and post-stimulation flowback technology has been tested.
One of the last oil facilities in state waters on the path towards full decommissioning slated to begin in 2022.
The oil and gas industry, which had begun showing signs of recovery from a generational downturn, was brought to its knees by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. SPE’s technical directors reflect on the pandemic’s impacts and share their outlooks going forward in this annual roundup.
Innovators at the Norwegian oil company have developed a machine-learning model that analyzes mud-gas data to predict the gas/oil ratio of wells as they are drilled—something that the industry has worked for decades to accomplish.
There is little question that carbon capture, storage, and utilization is destined to become one of America’s big growth industries in the years to come.
Oil producers that spent years gearing up for a growth spurt beginning in 2020 are making up for lost time.
The US oil giant is launching a new business unit that will boost its ability to reduce its own greenhouse gas emissions along with those of other industries.
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Interface Fluidics carved out a niche for itself in the oilfield testing sector a few years ago with a new alternative to coreflooding. Now, along with Equinor, the Calgary-based company is taking on another industry laboratory stalwart: the slimtube test. -
Shell and Tomson Technologies completed field trials in the Gulf of Mexico using new nanoparticle-enabled phosphonate and polymer inhibitors that improve the treatment lifetime of scale squeezes. -
The Houston-based oil and gas company has expanded its footprint in the liquids-rich Permian by more than 550,000 acres. -
The cutting-edge technological developments in geothermal are devoted to drilling into deeper, hotter, and harder rock. Oil and gas expertise and know-how holds the key to cost reduction.
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The Norwegian energy company and the French utility say jointly developing low-carbon hydrogen will pave the way to achieving net-zero emissions in 2050. -
After a lot of talk of the transition, BP and Total are making bids to become major wind energy producers in the UK. Meanwhile, NOV said the offshore wind sector is becoming a big business for it too.
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The International Energy Agency is launching a global commission to address the effects on employment and society from the transition to renewable energy from fossil fuels, it said. The commission, chaired by Denmark, will include energy ministers from Canada, Norway, Mexico, and Oman. It will also include US energy officials, as Washington shifts course under Preside…
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The Indian Coast Guard has recovered the bodies of three crew members from the offshore supply ship Greatship Rohini, which caught fire on 13 February.
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New proximity-based safety process watches the drill floor on board the drillship Deepwater Conqueror.
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Norwegian oil and gas firm Equinor said it would work to improve safety in its operations following several serious incidents and injuries in the past year.
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