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In the shale oil business, cash flow is a life or death issue. For smaller players, money from investors and lenders is getting harder to find.

After a long cooling off period, this dry-gas shale play is once again red hot.

Demand is growing at the University of Houston and others from students who want to study data science; from researchers who produce, interpret, or otherwise work with reams of data; and from industry, which needs a data science-savvy workforce.

Rapid advances in deep learning continue to demonstrate the significance of end-to-end training with no a priori knowledge. However, when models need to do forward prediction, most AI researchers agree that incorporating prior knowledge with end-to-end training can introduce better inductive bias. 

In this workshop, experts from all disciplines will discuss how science is being applied to optimize the development of unconventional resources—and what challenges remain to be solved.

Equinor has agreed to align its business model with the goals of the 2015 Paris climate accord and will review its corporate lobbying policy and the carbon intensity of its products, the company said. It will also link executive pay to climate-related targets.

Even as the Trump administration has taken steps to expand offshore oil drilling, a new report shows that thousands of oil spills are still happening and that workers in the oil and gas industry are still dying on the job.

The explorer has so far encountered 400 ft of reservoir pay zone in an area where it has three other producing fields.

Total plans to start a digital factory to tap artificial intelligence in a bid to save hundreds of millions of dollars on exploration and production projects, according to an executive.

Keen on Anadarko for a while, Occidental Petroleum is ready to do battle with Chevron for the big independent.

America’s hottest oil patch is producing so much natural gas that, by the end of last year, producers were burning off more than enough of the fuel to meet residential demand across the whole of Texas.

Ashtead Technology has acquired Louisiana-based subsea equipment rental and cutting services specialist, Aqua-Tech Solutions, as part of the company’s international growth plans in the US.