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The City Council of Lafayette, Colorado, on 17 January voted to table an anti-hydraulic-fracturing ordinance that could impede oil and gas development within Lafayette through sanctioning acts of civil disobedience and nonviolent protest.

Hackers have gotten smarter and bolder in their recent attempts to steal coveted oil company data. Mario Chiock has worked for years to keep them at bay.

Despite a turbulent time for most offshore sectors over the past 2 years, Douglas-Westwood’s latest analysis from the World Offshore Helicopters Market Forecast 2017–2021 projects USD 18 billion in oil- and gas-related expenditure over the next 5 years.

Gerry Peereboom has been appointed as vice president of integration at Steelhead LNG. Peereboom has more than 38 years of international experience on major oil, gas, and liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects for companies such as Noble Energy, BP, and Amoco. He has held serveral commercial, financial, and general managerial positions, including stints as president of A…

Tina Campbell has been named marketing coordinator at Asset Guardian Solutions, a company specializing in protecting the integrity of companes' process control systems software. Campbell will be responsible for planning and executing online and offline marketing strategies and campaigns in her new role. She previously worked in various marketing, public relations, and…

Peterson, an international energy logistics provider, has named Sarah Forbes as director of projects and innovation. Forbes has 15 years' industry experience in a number of senior roles. In 2012 she founded Core29, a project management and consultancy business in which Peterson has invested. Forbes has also served as a business delivery manager at Envue Limited, a cor…

Various industry experts discussed the progress of an initiative led by SPE and BSEE to develop a safety data-sharing framework to help mitigate potential risk in operations.

Griff Aviation, a Norwegian company, developed an octocopter that weighs 165 lb, which the company says can lift a payload of up to 496 lb. The Griff 300 aircraft has eight propellers, each powered by a separate motor. Although it can be manually flown using a radio remote control on the ground, an onboard custom helicopter-cabin mobile control is available for the us…

Around the top of the list of ways to make hydraulic fracturing more efficient is by expanding the area that is effectively fractured. There is growing evidence of the need for methods to do this that are cost-effective, reliable, and repeatable in wells that vary widely.

Tullow Oil chief financial officer (CFO) Ian Springett is taking an extended leave of absence from the company to undergo treatment for a medical attention. Les Wood, currently vice president of finance and commercial, will take over as interim CFO.

The understanding of solid-particle flow regimes in pipelines for any operational conditions is important for identifying the nature of particle interaction and movement. In this paper, a comprehensive analysis of solid-particle flow regimes in stratified flow in a horizontal pipeline is presented.

In the first part of this series, the author explained why the current way of performing FEED does not allow minimization of costs by optimizing the design. In this article, he describes how the current contractual setup of the EPC also fails to minimize the costs of equipment/materials and works.