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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.

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.

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.

Behavior-based safety is not a new concept nor is it new at Murphy Oil. But when Murphy launched its Safety Observation Program as a digital tool, it revitalized the way the culture of safety spread throughout the company.

Houston-based Surge Energy drilled the Medusa Unit C 28-09 3AH well in the Midland Basin to a TMD of 24,592 ft, with a total horizontal displacement of 17,935 ft, or 3.4 miles.

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.

BCCK Holding Company has appointed Don Tyler as director of engineering. Tyler has more than 40 years of engineering, design, project, and discipline management experience in the natural gas processing, industrial wastewater treatment, power, paper, and chemical processing industries. He has been involved in more than 40 domestic and international NGL, LPG, and LNG pr…

Sapura Offshore, a subsidiary of Sapura Energy, has received a subcontract from Pan Marine Petroleum Services for the installation of six subsea pipelines in the Gulf of Suez. Work will be carried out in various locations within the Morgan field, with an expected total pipelay of 35 mi. Sapura also won an EPCI contract from Eni East Sepinggan for two 16-in. diameter o…

High-fidelity 3D engineering simulations are valuable in making decisions, but they can be cost-prohibitive and require significant amounts of time to execute. The integration of deep-learning neural networks with computational fluid dynamics may help accelerate the simulation process.

KrisEnergy CFO Kiran Raj has resigned from his position to pursue other interests. Raj had been the company’s CFO since 2013, coming over from Brighton Capital Advisors, a corporate finance firm he founded. During his career, Raj has been responsible for the origination and execution of more than 130 equity, equity-linked, merger and acquisition, restructuring, and va…