Lynnmarie P. Flowers

Contributing Editor Society of Petroleum Engineers

Lynnmarie P. Flowers is a Contributing Editor with more than 30 years’ editorial and project management experience, as editor-in-chief for five national magazines, as a Space Shuttle procedure writer collaborating with Kennedy Space Center technical experts, as the corporate information coordinator for a nuclear operating company, and editor and web content developer for the US South’s largest utility. Lynnmarie can be reached at lynnmariepflowers@gmail.com or on LinkedIn.

Emission management

Operator Consortium Pledges Emissions Cuts as Proportion of Production

Although based on “intensity” and not “absolute” emissions, oil giants say it’s a step toward net-zero goals for 2050.

July 16, 2020 • Lynnmarie P. Flowers • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Business/economics

Production Cuts Not Enough To Offset Plummeting Prices, Oversupply of Natural Gas

For an industry once fueled by the law of supply and demand, the new economic reality has brought new rules.

July 13, 2020 • Lynnmarie P. Flowers • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Energy transition

Exploration Still Has a Role in a Low-Cost, Low-Carbon Future

Exploration is widely perceived as discretionary, even unwarranted. A report from Wood Mackenzie, however, presented a different scene. Only about half the supply needed to reach 2040 is guaranteed from fields already on stream, it said. The rest requires new capital investment and is up for grabs.

July 6, 2020 • Lynnmarie P. Flowers • HSE Now
Business/economics

Price-Plunge Fallout: Let’s Make a Deal

Nearly everything’s on the table as companies aim to shore up portfolios by curtailing investments and dumping low-priority assets.

June 30, 2020 • Lynnmarie P. Flowers • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Exploration/discoveries

ONGC Awards 49 Marginal Fields to 7 Companies

The Oil & Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) has invited bids for partnership to raise production from 64 marginal fields that were given to the company by the government without bidding. As they are small in size, these fields are uneconomical for a larger company.

June 30, 2020 • Lynnmarie P. Flowers • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Business/economics

Petrobras Books $11.2-Billion Impairment

Petrobras has taken a 65.3-billion Brazilian real ($11.2-billion) impairment on its exploration and production (E&P) assets, warning investors that changes in consumer behavior resulting from the coronavirus pandemic would likely be permanent.

June 30, 2020 • Lynnmarie P. Flowers • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Business/economics

Lower Natural Gas Production Predicted for 2020

In its May 2020 Short-Term Energy Outlook, the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecast US-marketed natural gas production to decrease by 5% in 2020. Production is expected to average 94.3 Bcf/D in 2020, down from 99.2 Bcf/D in 2019.

June 30, 2020 • Lynnmarie P. Flowers • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Exploration/discoveries

NOCs To Slash Over a Quarter of Exploration Budgets

National oil companies (NOCs) globally are estimated to cut exploration budgets by over a quarter on average in 2020, said Wood Mackenzie.

June 30, 2020 • Lynnmarie P. Flowers • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Exploration/discoveries

Qatar Petroleum To Acquire Two Exploration Blocks in Côte d’Ivoire

Qatar Petroleum entered into a farm-in agreement with Total E&P to acquire a 45% participating interest in two blocks located in the Ivorian-Tano basin, offshore the Republic of Côte d’Ivoire.

June 30, 2020 • Lynnmarie P. Flowers • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Artificial lift

Legends of Artificial Lift-2020

Each year at the SPE Artificial Lift Conference and Exhibition, energy professionals convene to connect, grow, and learn—and also to laud outstanding innovators in their field.

June 30, 2020 • Lynnmarie P. Flowers • Journal of Petroleum Technology

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