‘Promised Land’: Fracturing Film Fails To Deliver
Promised Land could have been so much more than what it was, and it did little to provide any real substance on the public discussion of hydraulic fracturing. The motion picture, which opened three...
View ArticleHydraulic Fracturing Is NOT Part of Drilling Operation
By Scott Weeden, Senior Editor The misconception that hydraulic fracturing is part of drilling rather than completion and production adds greatly to the confusion the industry should address. Over and...
View ArticleCorporate raider at it again?
In my daily slog through vast amounts of email, I came across an interesting tidbit: Carl Icahn has filed a schedule 13-D revealing a 5.61% stake in Transocean, mostly via call options. According to...
View ArticleHow Quickly Time Flies - For LNG
Jennifer Presley, Senior Editor, Production Ten years ago, the energy future of the US was looking pretty grim. A 2003 Time magazine article titled “The US is Running Out of Energy” said that “Natural...
View ArticleLNG History in New York Could Presage Fracing Debate
By Scott Weeden, Senior Editor, E&P A Feb. 11, 2013, article in the Staten Island Advance noted the anniversary of the “worst industrial disaster in Staten Island history.” In 1973, an explosion in...
View ArticleTax Breaks Are Key To Viable Future For UK North Sea
By Mark Thomas, Senior Editor, E&P Sometimes we all have to stand back and admit that – however painful it might be for some – governments do occasionally get it right. Despite the occasionally...
View ArticleA Cry In The Offshore Wilderness
By Scott Weeden, Senior Editor The federal government is not listening. US Department of the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar has been especially hard of hearing when it comes to opening up new areas of...
View ArticleHats Off To Brazil’s Presalt Pioneer
By Mark Thomas, Senior Editor, E&P We often see companies in the oil and gas industry perhaps a little too keen to pat themselves very publicly on the back when they’ve done what they think is a...
View ArticleHuman Capital Is Hot Commodity
As the energy business continues to boom worldwide, the industry continues to face the challenge of finding qualified workers. From the surge of shale-fueled activity in the US to the LNG-sparked...
View ArticleAberdeen, Houston Explore Energy Connection
Five hours and about 7,400 km (4,598 miles) separate Houston from Aberdeen, Scotland, UK, but that didn’t stop the two cities with established oil and gas sectors from coming together to expand their...
View ArticleUS Could Use Another ‘Crown Jewel’
The deep waters of the US Gulf of Mexico (GoM) have been good to oil and gas companies lately. Anadarko Petroleum Corp. hit 305 m (1,000 ft) net of oil pay in the GoM earlier this month in what some...
View ArticleEagle Ford Keeps On Giving
The good news keeps coming in the Eagle Ford. The latest headline says the shale development generated more than US $61 billion in revenue for South Texas in 2012. The figure comes from a study...
View ArticleTexas Bill Puts Water Management In Spotlight
Oil and gas companies operating in Texas might want to put more thought into ways to reduce water usage in their operations. Lawmakers are pondering a bill that would charge a per-barrel fee for...
View ArticleArctic Plans Slow Down For The Greater Good
The US has been moving oil out of the Arctic region since the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System was completed in 1977. Both the US and Canada have done extensive offshore drilling in the Arctic. Even with...
View ArticleEnergy Companies, Students Connect For Learning Experiences
Too often we hear about the need for more people to enter the energy industry as older workers retire, taking experience and talent with them. Filling the pipeline with future workers will call for...
View ArticleUS Legislators Push For Atlantic OCS Drilling
The move to open the US Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) to oil and gas drilling is gaining momentum. The latest action comes from Scott Rigall (R-Virginia), who on April 26 filed a bill that...
View ArticleWorld Converges On Houston For OTC 2013
Reliant Park has again been transformed into a haven showcasing the latest and greatest in the world of offshore technology as OTC 2013 returned to Houston. As a first-timer to this massive conference,...
View ArticleJewell: There Is ‘Shared Responsibility’
In the midst of reports of new oil and gas discoveries, mergers or acquisitions, and changes in company leadership, it is not uncommon to hear grumblings from some in the industry about the perceived...
View ArticleUS Makes Progress Toward LNG Exports
Attention speakers: It is time to update your LNG presentations. After months of seemingly lackluster activity, the US government is finally moving the ball on LNG export applications. On May 17, news...
View ArticleCompanies Respond To Tragedy, Other Causes
When tragedy strikes acts of kindness typically emerge. That was the case when people and businesses across the US began responding to calls for donations after a massive tornado touched down in Moore,...
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