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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.

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

Total is increasing its stake in the US Gulf of Mexico after buying shares of promising prospects from Chevron.

Techstars is partnering with Statoil to select the world’s 10 most promising energy innovators and entrepreneurs to participate in the Techstars Energy Accelerator program. Selected companies will be tasked with compressing 2 years of development work into 13 weeks.

Mario Chiaramonte is Chief Technology Officer at Milan-based GEOLOG Surface Logging. JPT asked him about his company’s recent data-integration-technology platform and how it can affect reservoir characterization.

To reduce the risk of wells getting “frac hits,” Permian Basin operators around Midland created an information exchange to give them notice of nearby fracturing.

Tiny soil samples may contain as many as 300,000 species of microbial life, but a Netherlands-based startup has figured out that between 50 and 200 of them can tell an operator if a drilling location will hold oil and gas reserves.

SPE’s annual meeting will feature leading executives from Baker Hughes and Devon as well as other industry leaders.

Halliburton and Microsoft believe that by working together they can step up the pace of digital transformation across the E&P industry.

The world still needs oil and gas, but it is also making room for renewable energy which will change how upstream companies do business.

The composite upstream economic index for Texas increased for the eighth consecutive month due to a number of factors, including increased rig count, drilling permits, and upstream employment figures.