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The Gulf of Mexico disturbance, Barry, made landfall today near Intracoastal City, Louisiana, and weakened to a tropical storm.

The practice of safety has a definite ethical component. Often, the most ethical actions to take are obvious, such as the choice between a legal action and an illegal one. Other times, there are many considerations that may cloud decision-making.

The country has scrapped plans to build additional FSRUs, and decided instead on land-based LNG as the mainstay of its energy mix

Shell is continuing its exploration of blockchain with yet another investment in the technology, this time investing in LO3, a startup using a modified version of the Ethereum blockchain to make it easier for individuals to buy and sell locally produced energy.

Digital transformation: It’s a phrase that seems to be on the lips of everyone in the oil and gas industry, and that was certainly true at the inaugural Energy in Data conference held in Austin. The conference, however, showed that the transformation is more than on its way. It’s here.

The Caribbean nation hopes the auction will lead to at least two exploration projects in a region that has become increasingly attractive thanks to new discoveries and investments made in neighboring countries.

Firms such as Netflix have had a solid digital transformation strategy. Now, industrial companies, including in the oil and gas sector, are on a similar, if less dramatic, trajectory.

The Permian gets the lion’s share of attention when it comes to produced water, but other basins have a need to haul volumes off-site. How has the market changed in these areas recently? Is there a greater enthusiasm for pipelines, and can water midstream thrive?

Equinor awarded Subsea 7 a contract for installation and diving operations on the Europipe II, Heimdal, and Statfjord (EHS) fields, located in the Danish and Norwegian sectors of the North Sea. Subsea 7 terms the contract “sizeable,” between $50 million to $150 million.

First developed as a proprietary system by a large Permian Basin operator, this hydraulic fracturing schedule exchange will be run by a data company and opened up to the entire North American shale sector.

The UK shale operator will move forward with fracturing and testing its second well at its Lancashire site despite strict constraints on induced seismicity that hampered fracturing work on its first well.

Charles Gorecki was named CEO of the University of North Dakota’s Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC). Gorecki has been with the EERC by 12 years, the last four of which were as director of subsurface research and development. He began his career with the EERC as a research engineer in 2007, working on carbon dioxide storage, enhanced oil recovery-related …