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Business/economics

For Pemex, Partnerships and Profitability Are The New Focus

The new CEO of Pemex outlined his plan to reverse the state-owned company’s struggling financial and production situation.

May 3, 2017 • Trent Jacobs • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Field/project development

OTC: Competitive Strategies Bring Projects to FID

Companies are rethinking offshore developments and in a very tough market are finding innovative ways of bringing some projects forward.

May 4, 2017 • Joel Parshall • Journal of Petroleum Technology
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Fracturing/pressure pumping

Analytical Model Developed To Study Fracture Initiation Near Wellbore

An advisor at Schlumberger discusses the company’s work in examining the effect of perforations on hydraulic fracture initiation.

April 26, 2017 • Stephen Whitfield • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Business/economics

Mapping the Western Canadian Crude Oil Market Complex

Canada will become the world’s fifth-largest producer of crude oil in 2017. The solvent-assisted-SAGD poses the largest advancement in production techniques in the oil sands, and if scaled up, could further reduce extraction costs.

April 27, 2017 • Dominik Rozwadowski • Oil and Gas Facilities
Business/economics

Argentine President Macri Visits With US Oil and Gas Industry, Asks For More Investment

Argentina President Mauricio Macri visited with oil and gas companies in Houston to emphasize that his country’s reforms are making it increasingly attractive for upstream investing.

April 26, 2017 • Trent Jacobs • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Asset Management

OTC: Collaboration Key to Mad Dog Operation

A panel of executives, project managers, and government regulators involved with the Mad Dog project in the US Gulf of Mexico discuss the importance of collaboration and strategic alignment in project development.

April 30, 2017 • Stephen Whitfield • Oil and Gas Facilities
Water management

Sinopec Tests Separation Technology at FuLing Shale Site

OriginClear agreed to a sales licensing deal for use of its Electro Water Separation technology at a Sinopec-operated shale gas site.

April 30, 2017 • Stephen Whitfield • Oil and Gas Facilities
Business/economics

OTC: Brazil Energy Reforms Yield Big Lease Sales and Questions

Brazil is embarking on a 3-year round of bid sales offering international oil companies multibillion barrel prospects with better contract terms.

May 1, 2017 • Stephen Rassenfoss • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Robotics/unmanned systems

OTC: New Ideas Floated for UAVs, Beyond Inspections

AUVs aren’t limited to inspections and pipeline surveys. Deployment of a flotilla of AUVs to work on a project, and the communication among them, may someday lead to a subsea Internet of Things.

May 1, 2017 • Pam Boschee • Oil and Gas Facilities
Business/economics

Zinke Pushes for Review of Interior and Regulations at OTC

Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke praised America’s resource potential and regulatory framework at OTC. He also laid out his plan to review the department and signed two secretarial orders.

May 2, 2017 • Adam Wilson • Journal of Petroleum Technology

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