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This week the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported that the Wolfcamp shale holds 20 billion bbl of technically recoverable oil. This builds on other active formations in the Permian Basin, where nearly half of US active rigs are operating.

Geophysicists from Stanford University have compiled a map of new maximum horizontal stress orientations in Texas and surrounding areas, potentially giving operators new information for avoiding seismic activity in their hydraulic fracturing operations.

The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality recently concluded that hydraulic fracturing operations were not the likely cause of well water contamination in a small town.

Wood Group appointed Jan Dell as vice president of clean energy. Dell has more than 20 years' experience in the energy, industrial, water, and climate sectors. Prior to joining Wood Group, she held senior strategy and management positions with AECOM, CH2M Hill, and ConocoPhillips, where she led global energy and industrial project developments incorporating sustainabl…

A team of oil and gas consultancy companies have formed a collaborative program aimed at offering integrated support for operators looking to retire redundant facilities without in-house overhead.

Statoil appointed Jannicke Nilsson as executive vice president and chief operating officer (COO). She will take over the role from Anders Opedal, who will lead the development of the company's operations in Brazil. Nilsson is currently the senior vice president for COO operational performance projects, a role she has held since August 2015. She joined the company in 1…

Noé H. Sáenz was named country manager for Burns & McDonnell's new Mexico City office. In his 6 years with the company, Sáenz's main areas of focus have been strategic planning, client relationships, and developing partnerships in the energy and heavy industrial market sectors, primarily in Mexico, Canada, and Brazil. He has 18 years' experience leading engineering an…

The US Energy Information Administration argues "downturn" may no longer be the right term.

Use of a complex-nanofluids (CNF) additive to hydraulic fracturing fluids has doubled even as activity has fallen because of potential production increases.

Awareness of the different styles of thinking can provide an understanding of the choices people make when assessing risk and making decisions. The purpose of this paper is to show how such knowledge can be operationalized and applied to real-world oil and gas operations.

Since the recent oil price downturn, the offshore MMO market has witnessed a significant decline in global expenditure. The most severe decline in total regional expenditure is anticipated to occur in North America, with modifications expenditure forecast to drop by 56% between 2014 and 2016.

A recently released report predicted that IoT networks will not take up as much of the overall market share as previously anticipated.