Issue: Oilman May-June 2015

Letter from the Publisher We saw several important and positive headlines since our last issue.  WTI Crude has settled in ...

Innovative technologies applied all along the oil and gas supply chain have dramatically changed the industry over the past decade, ...

Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell in March released final standards for hydraulic fracturing on public and American Indian lands. ...

After the U.S. Senate in early March failed to override President Obama’s veto of legislation that would have approved TransCanada’s ...

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee, and Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), joined ...

Nancy Hodur, a researcher with North Dakota State University’s Agribusiness and Applied Economics Department, has co-authored several major industry studies ...

Sustained momentum from the U.S. shale play pushed oil and gas mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity to a ten year ...

While the oil and gas industry may fluctuate, the presence of drilling waste remains consistent – as does the need ...

Take your pick as to the reason why the Keystone XL pipeline is necessary for the future of the U.S. ...

Forty years ago, in the spring of 1974, a group of oilmen and business leaders came together in Tulsa to ...

Speaking with a mentor about this article, he was concerned about the relevance. “Josh,” he said to me, “everything in ...

Lynn Helms is considered North Dakota’s top regulator, serving as director of the North Dakota Industrial Commission Oil and Gas ...

The audience for CRUDE cartoons is growing more all the time. The cartoon CRUDE can not only be seen in ...

ABB has introduced the Tropos 6420-XA, a fourth-generation outdoor broadband mesh router that is an oil well pad communications hub ...

BP has agreed to use Schlumberger’s Petrel E&P software platform to support BP’s new digital technology roll out. The first ...

Mtelligence Corp. (Mtell) and MapR Technologies Inc. have released a big data platform, called Mtell Reservoir, which uses the MapR ...

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) Office of Enforcement Division of Energy Market Oversight presented the 2014 State of the ...

Jericho Oil Corp. has closed on its previously announced acquisition of a 50% working interest in 1,850 acres in northeastern ...

A wholly owned subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum Corp. has exercised its option to purchase a 20% equity interest in Saddlehorn ...

Sanchez Production Partners (SPP) has engaged Lantana Energy Advisors to assist with the possible divestiture of SPP’s assets and operations ...

The Oklahoma Corporation Commission’s (OCC) Oil and Gas Conservation Division (OGCD) has issued new directives to disposal well operators in ...

Chesapeake Energy has reduced its 2015 capital budget to $3.5 billion to $4.0 billion for 2015, which is a $500 ...

Independence Resources Management plans to use a $500 million investment to focus on activity in the Anadarko Basin. Warburg Pincus, ...

The members of the Railroad Commission of Texas in early March provided invited testimony on U.S. trade policy and its ...

The Texas Oil and Gas Association (TXOGA) in February reported that the Texas oil and natural gas industry paid a ...

Texas LNG in March asked the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to initiate a National Environmental Policy Act pre-filing review of ...

Rangeland Energy has executed a long-term agreement with a subsidiary of Delek US Holdings to be an anchor shipper of ...

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on April 1, in accordance with a March 20 FERC order issuing a Presidential ...

Angelo State University (ASU) received a $116,500 gift from Shell Oil Exploration and Production to fund a rangeland reclamation research ...

The U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) held an oil and gas lease sale in ...

Congressional leadership from Louisiana recently wrote to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) urging the agency to make a decision ...

Columbia Gulf Transmission in March filed an application with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for a certificate of public convenience ...

Freeport-McMoRan Inc. recently released the results of additional production testing on Freeport-McMoRan Oil & Gas’ (FM O&G) Highlander discovery, located ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (March 24, 2015) – The Principals of Founders Investment Banking, LLC announce the sale of Eagle Automation Limited (“Eagle”), ...

Cost-Saving Innovation, Cutting-Edge Technology on Display at the Largest Deal-Making Show in the Ark-La-Tex Region Companies from every sector of ...

“Yesterday it was chickens; today it is feathers,” the owner of a local oilfield supply company said to me yesterday. ...

For those companies whose bottom line depends heavily on product and service sales to the oil and gas sector, part ...