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

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 …

McDermott has been awarded a contract for Package 1 of Saudi Aramco’s Marjan Increment Development project to provide EPCI of the gas-oil separation plant (GOSP). McDermott will lead a consortium with China Offshore Oil Engineering Company (COOEC) in an integrated execution model. The Package 1 GOSP separation platform is located offshore in the eastern flank of the A…

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.

The UK-based energy infrastructure development firm has entered an exclusivity agreement with Meridian Holdings for an FSRU project offshore northwest England. The project would include a floating FLNG receiving port.

The $635-million deal sees Oman-based Petrogas and Norwegian private equity company HitecVision acquire a package of non-core North Sea assets, including 100% ownership stake in four fields.

Usually, field engineers manually pick events such as start and end times out of hydraulic-fracturing pumping data. This manual process is time-consuming and prone to error. Now, a Denver-based company is using machine learning to identify these events more accurately and consistently.

Driven by Mozambique’s Area 1 and Area 4 projects, Africa is poised to become the dominant LNG investment destination by the end of this year, with the continent seeing nearly one-third of total greenfield investment.

As a disturbance in the Gulf of Mexico continues to develop, about 32% of the oil production and 18% of the natural gas production in the GOM has been shut in.

Recommended Practice 2001, Fire Protection in Refineries, includes important revisions on hazard analysis, new ways to improve the design of refineries to help prevent fires, and new information on managing the potential environmental impact of firefighting foams and marine firefighting.

Not all produced water is the same. A seminar held by SPE and associated with the Water Life Cycle and Strategy Technical Section will look at the different types of produced water and the different ways in which produced water is handled in various regions around the world.