Business/economics
The asset sale to an undisclosed buyer includes 360,000 net acres in Oklahoma.
Phase 1 of the lease agreements calls for 2D and 3D seismic over the blocks.
Evolution Well Services will deploy electric pressure pumping units for Northeast Natural Energy, which operates in the Marcellus Shale.
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The global oil industry is positioned for stronger performance, reflecting the financial discipline and cost-cutting innovation driven by several years of low oil prices and the likely prospect of more stable market conditions. -
Upward momentum in US industry operations continues to gather, as the survey conducted by the Federal Reserve for the just-completed fourth quarter of 2017 indicates.
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Technical Directors have a range of things to work on for 2018 that add value at a time when resources are scare.
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Low oil prices that forced operators to slash upstream spending budgets has led to the lowest level of discoveries in decades.
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Congress is close to lifting a 40-year-old ban on energy development in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, but drilling for oil in that frozen wilderness may still be years away as the effort faces exhaustive environmental reviews and likely lawsuits.
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McDermott and CB&I will form a vertically integrated onshore-offshore construction and engineering services provider. Other deals include Jacobs Engineering Group acquiring CH2M and the expected close by year end of the Schlumberger and Weatherford OneStim JV.
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With their newly refined portfolios, operators are looking toward growth in the coming years but will remain cautious given ever-changing industry economics.
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Leaner business approaches have led to guarded optimism in the industry. While no bonanza is yet being trumpeted, the road to recovery appears to be smoothing out for the operators. But what about the oilfield services companies? How are they faring?
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The papers highlighted in this article cover technical assessment of unconventional resource plays, portfolio optimization, and technology development, all very relevant in today’s environment.
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The objective of the complete paper is to present an integrated work flow that can be used to build P90, mean, and P10 type wells, which represent the range of potential outcomes for the geologic subset in an unconventional resource play.
