7 Best Practices in Planning and Scheduling From Leading Refineries
There are many different aspects of planning and scheduling when it comes to refineries. Many experts and organizations have come up with their own forms...
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Most Common Oil and Gas Cybersecurity Threats
We are currently in the middle of a technological revolution, and the signs are all around us. Go ahead and name any tech buzz words...
Oil and Gas Industry Production Trends for 2019
Using the information obtained from the number of mentions, online engagement, and qualitative expert analysis, GlobalData Intelligence Center was able to deduce oil and gas...
How to Identify Innovation Opportunities with Big Data in the Oil and Gas Industry
For the past decade, oil and gas operators have been experiencing increasingly rapid and competitive regulatory and market changes. This is due to firms needing...
[Quiz] The Black Gold: Crude Oil
Crude oil and natural gases are mixtures of hydrocarbon molecules containing from 1 to 60 carbon atoms....
[Quiz] Major Sources of Crude Oil
Proven oil reserves are those that have a reasonable certainty of being recoverable under existing economic and political conditions, with existing technology....
[Quiz] How We Find Crude Oil Reservoirs
The search for crude oil begins with geologists who study the structure and history of rock layers below the earth's surface to locate areas that...
[Quiz] Types of Oil Wells
Exploratory wells which are drilled in areas where neither oil nor gas has been previously found are called “wildcats.” Those wells which strike oil or...
[Quiz] Basic Drilling Rig
Basic drilling rigs contain a derrick (tower), a drilling pipe, a large winch to lower and lift out the drilling pipe, a drilling table which...
[Quiz] Cable Drilling
he oldest drilling technique is percussion or cable drilling. This slow, limited depth method, which is seldom used, involves crushing rock by raising and dropping...