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Stanford geoscientists have found a way to detect thousands of tiny tremors around hydraulic fracturing operations that could serve as predictors of eventual larger earthquakes.

The Delaware Manufacturing Industries Corporation’s (DMIC) BVH/BVAH ball valves are rated for a full 6,000 psi application and are fully compatible with every connection type, including threaded, flanged, and welded connections. Connection types are available in sizes ranging from 1/4-in. to 4 in., and the valves are offered in carbon steel and stainless steel with va…

Siemens’ Pipelines 4.0 is an integrated service created for the engineering, supply, and lifecycle optimization of pipeline assets. It offers integrated offerings and turnkey applications to enhance efficiency on pump and compressor stations, as well as data analytics and lifecycle services to optimize asset performance and cybersecurity services to protect informatio…

Belgacem Chariag, chief global operations officer of Baker Hughes, a GE company, has resigned and will reportedly be replaced by Uwem Ukpong, the company's chief global operations and integration officer. Chariag agreed to resign on 2 January but will remain with BHGE until the end of January. Ukpong previously was a GE Oil & Gas executive and has run the company's Oi…

The shutting in of unprofitable offshore wells and the requirements for their plugging and abandonment is attracting more attention to what is being done with the associated subsea equipment. The benefits of leaving subsea systems in place vs. recovering them are being considered.

The industry has figured out how much opportunity lies in the Permian Basin’s Delaware subbasin, and the Delaware play is now dominating US unconventional oil activity, Citigroup’s Jeff Sieler told the SPE Gulf Coast Section reservoir group recently.

Suncor appointed Dennis Houston to its board of directors. He is the former executive vice president for ExxonMobil Refining & Supply Company, a position he held from 1999 to 2010. He previously served as vice president, Exxon Supply & Transportation, managing the company’s supply business as well as its international marine transportation operations. He also has inte…

Noble Corporation announced the retirement of Chairman, President, and CEO David W. Williams, and the election by the board of directors of Julie J. Robertson to succeed him in such roles. Williams will remain with the company through February 2018, serving in an advisory capacity. Robertson has served as executive vice president since 2006. In this role, she has had …

Linda Capuano, most recently a fellow in energy technology in the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, has begun her service as administrator of the Energy Information Administration in the US Department of Energy, the EIA announced on 9 January. She was nominated for the post by President Donald Trump on 3 November 2017 an…

More than a year ago, Ramanan Krishnamoorti and his team at the University of Houston started working on a predictive model that could alert oil and gas company employees when a problem might arise—and how to mitigate it.

Wärtsilä plans to develop a harbor tug design to maximize ecological operational sustainability to be used a new port facility being built in the Brazilian city of São Mateus, which will have environmental demands among the most stringent in the world.

R&D is essential for the industry, regardless of the current oil price, and past down markets have spawned some key technology advances, ExxonMobil researcher Erika Biediger told the SPE Gulf Coast Section R&D study group recently.