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Fracturing two or more wells at the same time creates connections. While fracturing fluids reach out further, those ties create a stronger link, though not forever.

Maersk Decom, a joint venture decommissioning company, has appointed Jacob Halberg to its CFO position. Halberg had previously held various leadership positions in finance at Novo Nordisk Engineering, IBM, and Maersk Data. Halberg has 17 years of experience in corporate finance and holds an MSc in economics from the University of Southern Denmark.

Saipem named Stefano Cavacini CFO, effective 15 November. Cavacini has more than 18 years of experience in finance, administration, and IT at various multinational groups in the industrial sector. He has been the CFO of Esaote since June 2015. Prior to that, he worked at Indesit, serving as CFO and group planning and control director 2011 to 2015. Cavacini joined Inde…

i-Tech Services’ mini ROVs are quick to deploy and can be transported to a site via helicopter or airline carrier. The vehicles have high maneuverability and power-to-weight ratio, allowing them to carry small tools and manipulators for operating effectively in strong currents. They are also suited for rapid mobilization and manual deployment from any platform, FPSO, …

Using semistructured interviews with key informants from Fort McMurray, Alberta, this paper details how residents perceive fly-in/fly-out workers and what effects this new employment strategy may have on their community.

Stanford researchers have mapped local susceptibility to man-made earthquakes in Oklahoma and Kansas. The new model incorporates physical properties of the Earth’s subsurface and forecasts a decline in potentially damaging shaking through 2020.

The Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement announced updated Oil and Gas Production Safety Systems regulations. The revisions reduce unnecessary regulatory burdens while ensuring that operations remain safe and environmentally responsible.

Montrose Port, a leading support and service hub for the energy industry, has broadened its services to the northeast energy industry by announcing its latest tenant, behavioral safety and culture change specialists Ethos Empowerment.

By examining two very different security-risk environments, this paper will illustrate how easily security-related human-rights risks can go unnoticed unless care is taken early in the risk-management process.

After years of near-misses, a Shell-led partnership is building the first liquefied natural gas export facility in Canada. It creates a much-needed export market for producers facing a gas glut, but more is needed.

Pascual Berrone has spent the last 10 years studying the phenomenon of greenwashing—appearing to limit environmental impact without actually doing so—and determines that it causes more harm than good in terms of companies’ standing and their market value.

This paper proposes a new method of economic prediction on the basis of expert library and oilfield databases. The method takes into account geological factors and the effect of production factors on the economic prediction.