The Time is Now for Oil and Gas Engineering and Design Careers
With the oil and gas industry currently in an upward cycle, driven by the natural gas shale-play discoveries in the United States, companies continue to...
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Higher U.S. Oil Drilling Has An Unexpected Effect
Platts reported some unusual findings last week as part of a new study. Looking at oil versus natural gas drilling in the U.S. The analysts found...
Drilling For Oil, Based On The Bible: Do Oil And Religion Mix?
They say an oilman has to be a gambler, but can he be a prophet? Zion Oil & Gas, based in Dallas, is a publicly...
Utilizing In-truck Printers to Comply with DOT and Client needs
(Lafayette, La.) – In an effort to utilize in-truck computers while complying with Department of Transportation (DOT) requirements, Dupré Logistics is installing printers into their...
Cyber Risk Management Among Top 6 Oil & Gas Industry Trends for 2014
Today’s oil and gas industry executives – including control room operators monitoring use data, chief information security officers analyzing the potential cybersecurity risks of a...
Shale: More Proof of U.S. Energy Independence
The positive impact of shale on U.S. energy production has been forecast for years, to the extent that many experts believe America could be energy...
U.S. Offshore Oil Regulator Sees Growing Safety Culture
(Reuters) – The new head regulator of the U.S. offshore oil patch says the effort to avert another disaster like 2010’s BP Plc (BP.L) Macondo...
Safety Tops Natural Gas Industry Concerns
Key findings from Black & Veatch’s 2013 Strategic Directions in the North American Natural Gas Industry report show an industry embarking on a period of...
Politics Do Matter For the Oil and Gas Industry
by Don Briggs
Famed Industrialist and oil and gas tycoon, J. Paul Getty, once said, “If business is your profession, then you should make politics your business.” On...
Gulf Coast Gasoline Rises to 6-Week High on Seasonal Work
Spot gasoline on the U.S. Gulf Coast strengthened to a six-week high as refiners carried out seasonal maintenance, lowering production in the region. Conventional, 87-octane...