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The evolution of hydraulic fracturing is a long and circuitous one that deserves examination. Engineering and completions leaders from Liberty Oilfield Services did just that, authoring a paper that encapsulates the high points in the development of the groundbreaking completions practice.

The Agidigbo find follows the Kalimba, Afoxé, Agogo, and Ndungu discoveries. The five discoveries combined hold an estimated 1.8 billion bbl of light oil in place.

Sabine Pass Train 6 gets the nod, Bechtel gets the go-ahead for construction. Apache Corp. signed a deal with Cheniere to supply natural gas produced from its Permian Basin Alpine High area to the Corpus Christi LNG facility

As drones become a more significant part of energy projects, the guide outlines the steps operators should take in assessing their capabilities to run a drone program and the elements such programs should consider, including safety and regulatory concerns.

It is rare that businesses selling equipment to the oil and gas sector can benefit from lower oil prices. But that is the case for CRA pipe manufacturers, which are comfortably outperforming 2014 levels.

Apache named Juliet Ellis to its board of directors. Ellis served as a managing director and senior portfolio manager for Invesco and as the chief investment officer for Invesco’s US Growth Equities Investment Management Unit until her retirement in March. She was senior portfolio manager for Invesco’s Small Cap Growth Fund and Small Cap Equity Fund from 2004 to 2017.…

C-Innovation, an affiliate of Edison Chouest Offshore, named John Michael Boquet as health, safety, and environment (HSE) manager. Based in Mandeville, Louisiana, Boquet’s responsibilities include managing the HSE aspects of personnel, equipment, and activities involved in subsea operations, including ROV, AUV, survey, and tooling functions. He will also be responsibl…

Boskalis Subsea Services said it has been awarded more than £100 million ($126 million) in contracts for operations in the UK North Sea over the past six months. These deals include an inspection, maintenance, and repair (IMR) campaign for Repsol Sinopec, a decommissioning contract with Spirit Energy, a scale squeeze scope for Premier Oil’s Huntington field, and Total…

The state-owned firm is looking within its home country, around Southeast Asia, and to the Americas—including shale—in an effort to maintain its forecast average yearly production of 1.7 million BOE/D over the next 5 years.

Malaysia’s Petronas, Shell Malaysia, and Thailand’s PTTEP are now in the midst of full-scale digital adoption. The companies are beginning to see results, but none is counting on a “big bang” in development of the technology soon.

This paper presents a newly developed model to predict the breakdown pressures in cased and perforated wells.

This paper presents a unique work flow that addresses in real time the challenges of perforation and fracture-treatment design while accounting for the lithologic and stress variability along the wellbore and its surroundings.