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If private equity bailed out the exploration and production (E&P) industry after the 2015 downturn, the back office may well ...

Evolving market and societal forces are driving today’s energy producers to reimagine their operational business models. The energy sector has ...

AVEVA on Microsoft Azure Optimizes Organizational Operations with Predictive and Prescriptive Analytics. The current pandemic has struck the oil and ...

Find out why deploying an effective master data strategy across an enterprise is an important foundation to begin building a ...

In addition to the U.S. being challenged by the COVID-19 virus, China is confronting the U.S. and the entire globe ...

For many years, oil and gas operators have relied on traditional methods of drilling and exploration to produce conventional oil ...

Noah Fox (NF): As a leader in a cybersecurity firm serving the oil and gas industry, what specifically are you ...

Digital transformation of the oil and gas industry is no longer a question. At this point, if any company underneath ...

In the future, history books will probably need several chapters to cover 2020. The world has been rocked by the ...

Out of Bitcoin came blockchain technology, which as an immutable ledger system has more business use cases than crypto. Before ...

The Crude Life engages with industry experts and energy enthusiasts every day with interviews, radio programs, social media posts, print ...

There are millions of barrels of crude oil sitting at sea around the world waiting for delivery while storage tank ...

The Role of EPC Engineering Procurement Construction (EPC) companies are essentially the hands and feet of any major oil and ...

In an industry where most of the work takes place outdoors, it is important for workers to be properly equipped ...

From Malaysia and Singapore to new frontiers like Myanmar, firms are looking for ways to reach first gas efficiently and ...

The COVID-19 pandemic and dramatic oil price drop have parties looking closely at their contracts to determine their rights and ...

Servicing oilfield assets is a difficult process to master. Exploration and production companies experience peaks and troughs in demand as ...

With the majority of the U.S. workforce currently “sheltered in place,” remote work has now become the new norm. With ...

Eric Eissler: We have just entered a new downturn for the oil and gas industry as the COVID-19 pandemic holds ...

Gas monitor calibration remains an all too important and often insufficiently discussed topic in the oil and gas industry. All ...

What is the digital oilfield? Simply put, it’s how oil and gas companies apply digital technologies to drive their core ...

The storage of hydrocarbons represents one of the last steps of the production chain; tank farms are places where the ...

Dropping Oil Prices Impact Economies Around the World The future of the global oil industry is increasingly uncertain. As oil ...

As I write this column, the word that keeps coming to the forefront of my mind is “uncertainty.” Uncertainty is ...

Owners of oil lease tanks have been constrained by lack of technology and outdated regulations from being able to fully ...

In the next 15 years, machines such as servers, sensors, and other devices will outnumber humans by more than 100 ...

A Few Words on the State of the Industry COVID-19 has turned the world upside down. If you are reading ...

In the oil industry, project calculations are made based on two values: time and investment, making it clearer than ever ...

It is well known that in the oil industry the production of hydrocarbons in many cases leads to the production ...

In November 2016, a jury in Pecos, Texas, delivered a $146 million verdict on behalf of my client, Mesa Petroleum ...

The production of hydrocarbons is the most essential part of the energy world since, from this, hydrocarbons are obtained and ...

Have the underlying metrics behind reserve reports proved to be overly optimistic for oil and gas companies seeking reserve-based lending ...

Perhaps the worst kept secret in oil and gas is that the “calendar-based maintenance” operating philosophy we inherited from our ...

With the oil price dipping into negative numbers, there is a serious question about whether oil and gas companies can ...

With anything blockchain, there’s a hedging for adoption and the oil and gas industry is no different. Companies often skirt ...

Oilman is featuring and highlighting young professionals who are trailblazing their way through the ups and downs of the oil ...

Stories from members of the offshore oil and gas tribe as they work to keep the sails trimmed and the ...

ExxonMobil won the prize. The greatest offshore oil discovery in recent decades was secured by the world’s largest exploration and ...

Why divesting fossil fuels in the name of climate change may in fact be short-sighted and harm the larger sustainable ...

The Crude Life engages with industry experts and energy enthusiasts every day with interviews, radio programs, and podcasts. These conversations ...

Innovators in the oil and gas industry are consistently pushing out technology that improves production and helps thousands of employees ...

Houston, long known as the energy capital of the U.S., is now becoming recognized as a technology hub as well ...

Are we completely and unequivocally dependent on the oil and gas industry? Yes. In fact, the global demand for crude ...

Improving worker safety on offshore assets has long been a challenge for the oil and gas industry. Statistics on injuries ...

Find out why some energy companies are considering potential oil and gas impairments amid low oil and gas pricing, and ...

With the sheer number of competing software in the industry, on top of new software being developed rapidly, it’s quite ...