Asset Management
Two new US Department of Energy funding programs focus on improving shale recovery, mitigating produced-water risks, managing sour gas, and enhancing facility efficiency.
Winners of Alberta's Drilling Technology Challenge cover a range of technologies from robotics to enhance drilling rig safety to AI-enabled energy management, downhole sensing, well navigation, hybrid power systems, and geothermal energy.
The transaction broadens the company's North Sea footprint with long-life assets that boost production and reserves.
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FLITE Material Sciences says that its unique lasering process can be used on just about any type of material to make it either repel or attract water and oil. For an industry that deals with a lot of both, the technology has many potential use cases. -
The latest agreement between Wood and Equinor will begin January 2021. The contract follows recent agreements between the two companies for the Breidablikk development in the Norwegian Continental Shelf.
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TechnipFMC and McPhy signed a memorandum of understanding to work together on the development and project implementation of hydrogen technology. Separately, McPhy and Chart Industries also signed a memorandum to scale up hydrogen projects across various markets.
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Deloitte discusses the “great compression” of the oil and gas industry in which companies’ room to maneuver is restricted. How can the industry avoid a talent gap and stop an organizational challenge from becoming a precarious business problem?
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Forty-four percent of oil production and 30% of natural gas production remain shut in as operators return workers to offshore platforms. Production from undamaged facilities are being brought back online once all standard checks are completed. Facilities with damage may take longer to bring back up.
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The majority of energy firms surveyed by the Federal Reserve Bank don’t expect the business environment to significantly improve until 2022 or 2023.
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Chevron is initiating its layoffs of up to 15% of its global workforce of 45,000 first announced in late May by asking employees to reapply for positions. It closed its $4.1-billion acquisition of Noble Energy this week in which it gained 2,200 employees.
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The deal includes Sandvik’s exploration rigs, consumables, production stock, and selected trademarks and patents.
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Hurricane Delta leads to shut-ins of 92% oil and 60% gas production in GOM as landfall is expected today.
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GOM production shut-ins increased to 80% of the oil and 49% of natural gas. Hurricane Delta weakened from a category 4 storm to a category 2 storm on Wednesday and is expected reach the US Gulf later in the week.
