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China Energy Reserve and Chemicals Group is exploring the possibility of importing LNG from the US via ISO containers loaded from the West Coast.

The oil price downturn spawned a lull in deepwater enthusiasm, but better project execution and reduced project lead times have helped operators achieve lower costs and better returns. What does the landscape for deep water look like in the near term? Will operators get more involved?

The decision to ramp down production on the Aspen project comes months after the Alberta provincial government imposed production cuts to handle pipeline bottlenecks. Aspen is projected to produce 75,000 BOPD upon startup.

Organizational resilience is an enterprise’s capability to respond rapidly to unforeseen challenges, even chaotic disruption. It is the ability to bounce back with speed and effectiveness. This paper describes how inherent and adaptive resilience were addressed in the response to Hurricane Harvey.

The complicated parent-child relationship in US shale fields is emerging as a turning point in the US shale revolution. One of the first executives to exploit tight oil says the issue will reverse the sector’s cumulative growth rate by 2025.

Groupement Isarene awarded a $1-billion contract to Petrofac for the Ain Tsila Development Project in Algeria. Groupement Isarene is the joint operating group set up by Sonatrach, Petroceltic, and Enel.

i-Tech 7, Subsea 7’s life-of-field business unit, appointed Simon Hird a regional director to help strengthen and grow its business in the Asia-Pacific region. Hird has more than 40 years’ experience in the subsea oil and gas industry and has worked for several major contractors in the construction and life-of-field sectors. He joins i-Tech 7 from UTEC Survey where he…

First Exploration and Production Development has agreed to a contract with Yinson Holdings to operate an FPSO for the Anayala and Madu oil discoveries offshore Nigeria. The fields are in oil mining leases 83 and 85 in the shallow-water Niger Delta.

Data volumes are growing at an exponential rate. How can high-performance computing solutions help operators manage these volumes? Will faster, stronger processors and cloud computing solutions be the answer?

Encana CEO Doug Suttles assures that shale executives are acutely aware of the parent-child well challenge, and he doesn’t think it’s “a big threat” to the sector.

Pictures shot in fractured wells show how a high-pressure slurry of water and sand carves up the perforations.

The Spotlight on New Technology Awards—a program for OTC exhibitors—showcase the latest and most advanced hardware and software technologies that are leading the industry into the future.