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The quick turnaround times and low-risk nature of shale developments need to be replicated in the deepwater business, according to the CEO of Murphy Oil.

Brazil is embarking on a 3-year round of bid sales offering international oil companies multibillion barrel prospects with better contract terms.

Innovations characterize the deepwater Moho Nord field development, recently brought on stream by Total in the Republic of Congo, and the project creates significant value for the country.

An advisor at Schlumberger discusses the company’s work in examining the effect of perforations on hydraulic fracture initiation.

Argentina President Mauricio Macri visited with oil and gas companies in Houston to emphasize that his country’s reforms are making it increasingly attractive for upstream investing.

Social responsibility has become a common term but what defines “social performance?” In a globalized economy, with multinational corporate and state actors having a more immediate effect on individual lives than ever before, social performance initiatives should not be viewed as an expendable cost.

Optimizing laterals by integrating data from many sources to address reservoir variability and structural challenges can increase shale well productivity.

Three experts from different sectors discussed the challenge of methane and regulation at the first panel session of the 2017 SPE Health, Safety, Security, Environment, and Social Responsibility Conference–North America in New Orleans.

When technology startups and oil and gas companies finally agree to run a pilot test, there are a few things both sides of the table should know before they move forward.

Before you head to OTC 2017, make plans for the event’s best opportunities for professional networking and to learn about the array of new technologies pushing their way into the business.

Kerogen Exploration is excited about the Vista Grande project, a Woodford Shale play in a west-Texas Permian sub-basin that offers further targets lying above in the Barnett Shale.

Aggressive drilling growth in the Permian and other shale plays belies the cost of those wells, which in many cases are in the red.