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Leading voices in the oil and gas industry looked at key market changes, the regulatory and political climate, and potential business model disruptors in a wide-ranging panel discussion at the recent Houston Energy Breakfast.

Rutter, Statoil Canada, and the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador completed a collaborative research and development (R&D) project aimed at improving offshore oil and gas operations in harsh environments with ice conditions.

A Canadian startup company is developing a tool that uses solid rocket fuel to fracture vertical and horizontal wells without the use of water.

Making money on drilling innovation requires finding a technology that solves a significant problem, executing a good plan, and getting out while still ahead.

On 9–11 October, the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) will again assemble exploration and production (E&P) professionals from around the world for the 2017 Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas, USA.

The Cerebra Artifical Intelligence and Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) system from Flutura allows operators to reduce the cost of field maintenance by doing remote digital diagnostics. It features pinpoint failure mode initiation to help further understand the event symptom pathways that lead to failure buildup, and it has curative and preventive symptom identific…

Matt Jenkins was named director of well abandonment at Well-Safe Solutions. Jenkins joins Well-Safe from ConocoPhillips, where he led its UK plug and abandonment engineering and strategy while playing a key roal in its southern North Sea decomissioning project. He has 15 years' experience in a variety of North Sea projects, working in drilling, completions, interventi…

Flowserve announced the hiring of Lee Eckert as senior vice president and CFO effective 9 October. Eckert has more than two decades of financial experience. He previously spent 2 years as senior vice president and CFO of CHC Group, a commercial helicopter provider to the offshore oil and gas industry. Before that, he was CFO of the US division of National Grid and ser…

Projections of future production in the Permian Basin may came up short because new wells drilled near older ones are likely to yield less.

ExxonMobil announced an enhanced program to reduce methane emissions from its production and midstream facilities across the US. The program includes a commitment to switch out more than 1,000 high-bleed pneumatic devices over 3 years.