Where are my Permian Barrels Going?
“Capacity” – one of the most aggravating, yet one of the most common words coming out of West Texas and Southeastern New Mexico today. Production...
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Has Skynet Taken Over Diving Work in the Oil Industry?
Diving as a profession goes back to very ancient times. The first divers collected a great variety of sea products as organisms that were used...
Creating Resilient Operations Through Machine Learning
If there is one true constant in oil and gas, it’s that prices never stay the same for long. Analysts have been frantically arguing about...
New M&R Software Innovations Keep Fleet Managers in Check
Over the last twelve to twenty-four months, it seems as though topics such as autonomous driving and ELD mandates have flooded the news headlines for...
Addressing Infrastructure Needs in the Permian Basin and Across America
It’s no surprise that with oil production in the Permian region quadrupling over the past eight years, the traffic in the Permian Basin has increased...
Reflections from OTC 2019: Interviews with Newpark Drilling Fluids, Parker Hannifin and Brainnwave
This year’s Offshore Technology Conference marks its 50th anniversary. There were many interesting companies and one day is simply not enough to go over them...
The Role of Rail Logistics In The Movement Of Oil & Gas Production And Downstream Commodities
Some of the very first barrels of crude oil produced in this country were transported in a system designed to move crude from Western Pennsylvania...
Oil Ships Which Rule The Waves
On January 8, 2019, a Vietnam-registered oil tanker Aulac Fortune has exploded and caught fire off the coast of Hong Kong’s Lamma Island, killing at least one...
The Drilling Industry Reaps the Rewards of Data Analytics
The drilling industry’s push for increased digitalization has been driven by new data formats, innovative software applications as well as an ever-increasing abundance of real-time...
Composite Solution Restores Eroded Petrochemical Plant Line
Scheduled plant turnarounds allow owners to take an entire process unit offstream for maintenance, providing time for damaged and worn equipment and systems to be...