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When talking about advances in oil and gas technology, we would be remiss if we didn’t discuss unconventional methods of ...

The oil and gas industry is experiencing signs of a slowdown with reduced drilling rigs, E&P financial distress, reduced headcount ...

Digitalization in the offshore market has begun to ramp up, with new technologies poised to deliver substantial costs savings and ...

Operators go to great lengths to accurately position wells and avoid well collisions as they continue to search for ways ...

Digital technologies have been a critical factor in the oil and gas industry’s transformation. Beyond transforming the industry, the integration ...

When it comes to advanced data science – including machine learning and AI – there’s a perception that energy is ...

Challenges abound in the oil and gas industry: from navigating unpredictable – and often treacherous – weather conditions to maintaining ...

Why MaaS Is Shining Brightly, Positioned as the New Software as a Service Global cloud service revenues exceeded $175 billion ...

You hear about lone worker accidents all the time. “Lone Worker” is not just remote oilfield or pipeline workers in ...

Obtaining robust market intelligence for a complete view of the oil and gas industry across the supply chain comes with ...

Disposing of industrial wastewater is a problem in many industries. Wastewater is so named because it typically contains a high ...

It is not unusual for a Houston Petrochemical marketer to celebrate 25 years in business. But a look at the ...

For the field development engineer striving to deliver the most cost-effective concept design for a shallow water development, there are ...

Multi-element, automatic self-cleaning strainers optimize upstream and downstream production, while minimizing maintenance and downtime For the oil and gas industry, ...

With the passage of time, it is increasingly difficult to get trained personnel for the oil industry. The experience as ...

Led by unconventional play development, the U.S. is closer than ever to energy independence. Texas plays a leading role in ...

The Rule of Capture has been a foundational concept of oil and gas prospecting for 150 years. The Rule of ...

Many energy companies have embarked on significant digital transformation projects utilizing emerging technologies such as big data, cloud, mobile, APIs ...

History tells that in the past Standard Oil company – for the sake of distinguishing – painted barrels that were ...

We are currently in the middle of a technological revolution, and the signs are all around us. Go ahead and ...

Twenty-five years ago, Boone Pickens sent me a letter describing his passion for natural gas and America’s energy future. I ...

OILMAN Magazine had a chance to catch up with Bill Coskey CEO of ENGlobal, a speciality engineering services company that ...

In recent years, the role of technology has become more significant in midstream and downstream operations. With the increased use ...

Any corporation can succumb to financial hardship, bankruptcy, or receivership at any given time, no matter the industry. Unfortunately, Gemini ...

The state of California currently experienced a reality check in energy accountability and aging infrastructure. While the majority of the ...

It is well known that, if all things being equal (or in Latin ceteris paribus or caeteris paribus), the volume is directly ...

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and IoT are all tools that are barreling through the oil and gas industry right now ...

The EIA (Energy Information Agency) at the Department of Energy recently mentioned U.S. petroleum production increased 16 percent and natural ...

In our increasingly connected world, portable gas detectors have been slow to keep up with the latest digital trends. In ...

Today, there is much that is talked about and discussed in the oil and economic world of unconventional reservoirs. But ...

In the late 1990s the oil and gas industry worked overtime against the fear of what would happen when the ...

It’s mid-January, 150 miles from land with the temperature around zero degrees Celsius. The waves are 50 feet high, with ...

Every year, oil companies receive hundreds of complaints about nuisance odors emanating from oilfields. For residents living in these areas, ...

Last year, Russia and the USA produced respectively some 11.16 and 10.96 million b/d of crude oil and lease condensate ...

FGS (Flame and gas detection systems) are increasingly critical to the protection of people, the environment, and, ultimately, the profitability ...

Five short years after its founding, the origins of Pink Petro have become part of oil and gas folklore. At ...

Automated pipe welding has been little more than a pipe dream for decades. But advances in several critical technologies, including ...

The landscape of players in the oil and gas industry has changed over the last two decades along with some ...

Following the financial crisis of 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto came up with a revolutionary concept of decentralized money or cryptocurrency, bitcoin ...

We all likely remember when supply chain visibility first revolutionized the commodity management industry. We saw early adopters and visionaries ...

Graphene is a sub-derivative material of the most abundant element on our planet: carbon. Known by scientists as the miraculous ...

Few industries understand supply and demand dynamics as well as oil and gas—and few places in the world are seeing ...

Tonae’ Hamilton: Can you expand on how the idea of the OmniShelf came about? Bobby Martin Bobby Martin: As an ...

Predicting oil prices is notoriously difficult because oil prices reflect both supply and demand dynamics. Of course, supply issues garner ...

At the end of 2018 Wiederkehr Recycling AG (Switzerland) successfully held the second stage of continuous pyrolysis plant TDP-2-200 commissioning. ...

The IIoT has transformed the landscape of Asset Integrity Management for the oil and gas industry. By empowering owner-operators with ...

The first International Energy Policy Conference was held in 1992. One of the speakers of the conference stated, “I think ...