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The obsession with better hydraulic fracturing has steadily pushed on shale production in year one, but the decline remains steep. Chemistry could help explain, and perhaps extend, the short productive life of these wells.

Amid investor pressure, ExxonMobil taps its Poker Lake facility in New Mexico as the company’s first for natural-gas certification.

In 2020, SPE’s Business, Management, and Leadership Committee conducted a survey on diversity and inclusion in the oil and gas industry. In 2017, consulting firm Deloitte conducted a similar survey. Combined, these surveys provide a close look at diversity in the workplace and how to foster it.

Canadian midstream giant adds key US oil export capacity via private-equity exit.

Strong storms can trigger steep, breaking waves that slam into platform and wind turbines with tremendous force. Scientists at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and SINTEF are studying the behavior of offshore structures subjected to these kinds of waves. Their goal is to increase safety at sea.

ADNOC will purchase eight FlexRigs while H&P invests in ADNOC Drilling’s planned public offering.

Damage reports and spill issues surface as operators work to bring production from the GOM back on line.

A group of oil and gas executives and bitcoin miners mingled in a warehouse in Houston recently. One big topic of discussion: using stranded natural gas to power bitcoin mining rigs, which both reduces greenhouse-gas emissions and makes money for the gas providers, as well as the miners.

French operator will assist country with enhanced oil recovery, natural gas gathering, and solar projects.

Energy giant General Electric will be using one of the world's most powerful supercomputers, IBM's Summit, to run two new research projects that could boost the production of cleaner power.