Odor Control in Oilfields Now Has Greener Options
Every year, oil companies receive hundreds of complaints about nuisance odors emanating from oilfields. For residents living in these areas, “rotten egg” smells and “dead...
Exploration & Production
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...
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...
Recent Appellate Decisions on the Obligations of Mineral Executives and the Waiver of Anti-Pooling Provisions
In April, the Texas Supreme Court issued a decision—Texas Outfitters v. Nicholson—that addresses the vexing situation in which the owner of the executive rights also...
Understanding Mineral Rights in Terms of Oil and Gas Extraction
Property rights, mineral rights, fee simple, the long list of various land ownership laws is extensive and convoluted to say the least. To make sense...
Oil and Gas Measurement Automation is Key in Optimizing Production
With commodity prices in flux, the industry seeks to adopt new strategies to increase efficiency and optimize existing assets. Producers are looking for new technologies...
Implementing Artificial Gas Lift Earlier Can Improve Declining Wells
How an innovative approach regarding the optimum time to implement artificial gas lift has significantly improved production as wells decline – beginning on day one...
Scale Sand Production with Modular Natural Gas Power
To continue to reduce costs, frac sand companies and oil companies have started to build their own frac sand mines in the Permian Basin, located...
Waterless Oil Sands Extraction Process set to Improve Oil and Gas Industry Environmental Track Record
David Sealock, CEO of Petroteq Energy spoke with OILMAN’s editor, Eric Eissler, at length about the company’s innovative oil sands extraction technique which is environmentally...
Heavy Oil Production and the Low Quotes of Petroleum
There is no doubt one of the biggest challenges in the oil world is to put a barrel in the surface of API (American Petroleum...