Issue: Oilman July-August 2019

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 ...