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Gary Covatch, Joseph Renk, National Energy Technology Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy
Two federally-funded projects in the Bakken and Eagle Ford shales strive to improve recovery efficiency in unconventional plays while accelerating their development and generating high-quality data.
Jim Redden, Contributing Editor
Catching up with the times
The world’s biggest oil companies have been steadily shifting investments toward natural gas, driven by an emerging globally traded market and environmental concerns. But they’re taking a hit as prices tank.
U.S. crude oil production in each of the first five months of 2019 showed increases over their 2018 levels, with April 2019 establishing a new monthly record. Production grew the most in the Permian region and the U.S. Gulf of Mexico.
As much as $9-billion will be needed over the next decade to dispose of produced water in the world’s busiest shale field, according to Raymond James & Associates Inc.
Shares of America’s biggest owner of drilling rigs fell the most in seven months after the chief of Helmerich & Payne said he called the bottom too soon.
Deep Imaging today announced the first and only real-time solution for tracking fluid as it’s pumped through the wellbore and out to the fracture tips during a completion job.
Arcline Investment Management signed a definitive agreement to acquire the reciprocating compression division of Baker Hughes, a GE company.
Private equity has been ramping up its investment in Permian basin oil and natural gas production, but the old strategy of selling out after a few years is no more, according to RS Energy Group.
Chevron Corp. is seeking approval to modify its plans for a liquefied natural gas export facility on Canada’s Pacific Coast to an all-electric design that it says will result in the lowest greenhouse-gas emissions per ton of LNG of any large project in the world.
Wood Mackenzie, the global natural resources research consultancy, announced its partnership with P2 Energy Solutions to better analyse current and future well spacing.
Tropical Storm Barry is barreling toward Louisiana and could hit the coastline as a hurricane by Saturday, causing close to $1 billion in damage and worsening flooding in New Orleans.
Cenovus Energy Inc. has announced that on July 10, 2019, the company reached 1 Bbbl of cumulative production from its Foster Creek and Christina Lake oil sands facilities in northern Alberta. Cenovus is the first company to produce 1 Bbbl of oil using steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) technology.
Oil rode a tide of bullish news to its highest price in almost two months as a potential hurricane roiled the Gulf of Mexico and U.S. crude inventories dropped.
William (Bill) Head, Contributing Editor
Rebound seen in new offshore exploration
Staff, Energy Web Atlas; Staff, World Oil
As the play’s oil production continues to advance, several pipeline projects may help to make the transportation of that crude easier.
David Blackmon, Contributing Editor
Elected officials are doing their best to kill off the golden goose in two states that have benefitted mightily from the shale revolution.
Oscar Vasquez, Sam Young, Deep Imaging
Use of electromagnetic monitoring to image unconventional wells in shales can identify problems with well isolation and frac design.
A tropical storm could form in the eastern Gulf of Mexico by Thursday and potentially swirl through offshore oil and gas fields along the coast.
PDS Energy Information (PDS), a provider of secure data transfer exchange services for oil & gas drilling, completion, and production data, has announced that it has assumed commercial operation of the Frac Interference Exchange (FracX), a reciprocal data sharing network previously developed and operated by one of the largest operators in the Permian basin to coordinate hydraulic fracturing activity among producers.