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In today’s society, technology has become the new norm, with many businesses integrating technological software into their operations, regardless of ...

Class certification in the oil patch frequently revolves around whether the putative class can satisfy Rule 23’s commonality and predominance ...

Sarah Skinner: Can you tell me how Geosite got its start? Rachel Olney Rachel Olney: The idea for this company ...

If you are interested in selling your deal in this current market, you won’t be alone in Q4. The market ...

There are all kinds of new technologies and up and coming software out there that are capturing our attention daily. ...

Shortly after Jared Pollis was sworn in as the 43rd governor of Colorado he issued a declaration of war against ...

Fleet Performance Optimization People often refer to owning a boat as the equivalent of having a hole in the water ...

Where would the industry be without embracing technology? I’m sure that question is often asked in the executive suite and ...

“Capacity” – one of the most aggravating, yet one of the most common words coming out of West Texas and ...

Diving as a profession goes back to very ancient times. The first divers collected a great variety of sea products ...

If there is one true constant in oil and gas, it’s that prices never stay the same for long. Analysts ...

Over the last twelve to twenty-four months, it seems as though topics such as autonomous driving and ELD mandates have ...

It’s no surprise that with oil production in the Permian region quadrupling over the past eight years, the traffic in ...

This year’s Offshore Technology Conference marks its 50th anniversary. There were many interesting companies and one day is simply not ...

Some of the very first barrels of crude oil produced in this country were transported in a system designed to ...

On January 8, 2019, a Vietnam-registered oil tanker Aulac Fortune has exploded and caught fire off the coast of Hong Kong’s Lamma ...

The drilling industry’s push for increased digitalization has been driven by new data formats, innovative software applications as well as ...

Scheduled plant turnarounds allow owners to take an entire process unit offstream for maintenance, providing time for damaged and worn ...

Oil and gas industry experts are constantly searching for ways to produce energy more efficiently. And they are seeking methods ...

In April, the Texas Supreme Court issued a decision—Texas Outfitters v. Nicholson—that addresses the vexing situation in which the owner ...

Gas flaring is the process of burning excess hydrocarbon gases, which cannot be recovered or recycled, and combining those gases ...

Drones or UAS (Unmanned Aircraft Systems) have gained popularity over the years recreationally, in business and in industry. In the ...

So many components make up a successful oil rig or onshore well structure. It’s hard to place value on which ...

The U.S. SPR (Strategic Petroleum Reserve) is an oil reserve created in response to the 1973-1974 oil embargo. America’s dependence ...

Seventy-five years ago, June 6th, General Dwight D. Eisenhower led troops into what is known as D-Day. His outward display ...

Until the major downturn of 2014, the oil and gas industry has been a staunch, conservative industry that was a ...

Tonae’ Hamilton: What sparked your interest in mechanical engineering and developing engineering solutions for oil fields? Michael Jensen,Founder, Midnight Tools ...

Property rights, mineral rights, fee simple, the long list of various land ownership laws is extensive and convoluted to say ...

Thousands flocked to the 2019 Energy Exposition this year held in Gillette, Wyoming. The Expo was by all accounts, a ...

With commodity prices in flux, the industry seeks to adopt new strategies to increase efficiency and optimize existing assets. Producers ...

Not many of us would have guessed the deal of the quarter that blasted the energy headlines last month. Chevron ...

Virtual Reality (VR) has been the most anticipated upcoming technology for the past three years. However, in these past three ...

The oil and gas industry faces technical challenges unique to its business, with hundreds of thousands of onshore and offshore ...

For decades, offshore oil and gas personnel have performed insulation resistance tests with handheld megohmmeters to prevent motor and generator ...

Mineral buyers want to be special. Unfortunately, most know that aside from the strength of their network there isn’t a ...

How an innovative approach regarding the optimum time to implement artificial gas lift has significantly improved production as wells decline ...

Offshore makes a comeback. Bloomberg reports that investors expect offshore investment in 2019 to increase for the first time in ...

Marked by intensified volatility due to continuous sharp oil price fluctuations, the oil market experienced its longest and deepest slump ...

Last year’s tumultuous oil prices saw WTI and Brent both start the year at over $60 for the first time ...

To continue to reduce costs, frac sand companies and oil companies have started to build their own frac sand mines ...

Benchmark crude (oil marker) is the petroleum that serves as a pricing reference for other types of oil and oil-based ...

Hydraulic fracturing is a highly practiced branch of the production discipline that is commonly used in sands with low permeability. ...

According to the World Economic Forum, digital transformation could unlock approximately $1.6 trillion of value for the Oil and Gas ...

Land management is a crucial link in the upstream management chain because the health of every exploration and production organization ...

On April 16 of this year, Governor Jared Polis signed Senate Bill 181 into law after what many consider one ...

Switching from one major to another while in college can be a difficult decision and process. However, switching from a ...

David Sealock, CEO of Petroteq Energy spoke with OILMAN’s editor, Eric Eissler, at length about the company’s innovative oil sands ...

The founder and CEO of BMA Biotech, Mark Bullock is no stranger to the oil and gas industry. Both Bullock’s ...