startups

The ATCE Startup Village is a partnership between SPE and the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship at Rice University. Find out which firms took this year's top honors during the annual competition.

TWA editor Stephen Forrester recently had a conversation with Sean Huang, Cofounder of Matidor about his current venture and his prior experiences as an entrepreneur.

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.

When as an engineer Sidd Gupta noticed the amount of time and money oil and gas companies spend looking for answers in data they already have, he saw it as an opportunity to create a startup company that can help reduce that.

Three young entrepreneurs who were engineers in the oil and gas industry share how they started their business during a downturn, the challenges they faced, and how they succeeded them.

Barbara Burger says the key interest areas for the supermajor’s portfolio of startup investments remains unchanged despite a new industry downturn. However, the environment is tighter and the way in which deals are made has already seen notable change.

Anytime strict hierarchical structures are shaken, people like you and me have an opportunity to change them. To build a new paradigm.

Producers and investors continue to reward small companies with big solutions that lean on new software and hardware to lift the bottom line of one the world’s few trillion-dollar industries.

The SPE Annual Technology Conference and Exhibition is fast becoming one of the essential venues for the energy industry’s growing array of startups. All startups awarded a cash prize this year for the viability of their offering call Alberta home.

The types of advancements made in real-time drilling data acquisition and processing are now on the doorstep of the North American completions sector. Technology developers are banding together under the umbrella of “coopetition” in a bid to change the way producers fracture tight reservoirs.