Exploration and production — rigs, reserves, basins and the companies bringing hydrocarbons to the surface.
Iran and Oman are in active discussions over a temporary corridor arrangement through the Strait of Hormuz as the U.S.-Iran standoff stretches on with no resolution…
July wasn’t a quiet month for global oil markets—even if the headline numbers made it look that way. IEA member countries released just 26 million barrels…
Targa Resources is making one of its biggest infrastructure bets yet in the Permian Basin. The midstream company announced plans to build three new natural gas…
Fiji is in talks with Malaysian energy giant PETRONAS and senior government officials in Kuala Lumpur over a plan to build strategic fuel reserves and strengthen…
A complete framework for evaluating an unconventional oil well — from the cost stack through full-cycle returns Why “well cost” is the wrong question The headline…
Shell Catalysts & Technologies has agreed to sell its Environmental Catalysts and Systems (ECS) business to Lummus Technology. The companies announced the deal in August 2026.…
Oman Tank Terminal Company (OTTCO), a subsidiary of OQ Group, has formally opened an expression of interest process for the EPC phase of the Ras Markaz…
A petroleum engineer and co-inventor of a patented gas condensate treatment method and laureate of an industry award for energy conservation, explains where production facilities lose…
The U.S. Energy Information Administration quietly trimmed its gasoline price outlook on July 7 — and the revision was anything but minor. In its July Short-Term…
South Australia has finalized a 10-year contract with Santos Ltd to supply 200 petajoules of domestic natural gas to the state starting in 2030. The deal…
South Korea’s Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Resources and Abu Dhabi National Oil Company signed a strategic cooperation agreement on crude oil supply chain security, marking…
In recent years, companies have discovered that collaborations are hugely advantageous to the successful completion of a project. Energy initiatives are expensive and may face unexpected…
India’s largest state-owned oil-and-gas producer is making a serious bet on energy security. On Friday, the board of Oil and Natural Gas Corp. approved adding 1.75…
OPEC on Thursday lowered its 2026 global oil demand growth forecast to 970,000 barrels per day, marking the second consecutive monthly downward revision, according to the…
Wheat and rice feed hundreds of millions of people across India — and for years, something invisible has been quietly cutting into those harvests. Coal-fired power…
Most people picture fossil fuel pollution at its edges — the drilling rig punching into the earth, the smokestack exhaling above a power plant. But between…
U.S. total energy production reached a new all-time high of 107 quadrillion British thermal units (quads) in 2025 — a 3.4% increase over the previous record…
President Trump is preparing to direct roughly $700 million in federal funds toward coal infrastructure — including $425 million under the Defense Production Act for 13…
U.S. gasoline prices fell sharply last week, dropping 19.5 cents to a national average of $4.26 per gallon — with every single state recording a decline,…
U.S. natural gas consumption for power generation is on track to hold flat this summer — then break records. In its May 2026 Short-Term Energy Outlook,…
The U.S. produces far more natural gas than it consumes — enough to keep prices low at home and supply a growing share of global LNG…
U.S. natural gas supply is not the problem. That, at least, is the argument Williams Companies executives made at the 2026 Offshore Technology Conference — and…
Each year, the American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers benchmarks safety performance across the fuel and petrochemical industry — and the competition is steep. This cycle, Phillips…
Steam-assisted gravity drainage wells in Alberta push industrial equipment to its limits. Bottomhole temperatures can reach 250°C, temperature swings exceed 140°C, and the combination of corrosive…
Deepwater well abandonment rarely attracts the engineering investment that drilling does — yet it can consume just as much time and money. Off the coast of…
Somewhere between the drill bit and the surface, a thin barrier of hardened material is all that stands between pressurized underground fluids and the world above.…
In Karnes County, South Texas, a major Eagle Ford operator faced a problem quietly familiar across the basin: high-viscosity friction reducers can lower treating pressures and…
For decades, the refinery on the outskirts of Bakersfield, California, did what refineries do: it turned crude oil into diesel. Now, that same site is being…
Every day, billions of people light a stove to cook a meal — an act so routine it barely registers. But in 2026, that ordinary moment…
Europe is taking a few steps back toward old wells in the North Sea due to a shortage crisis. While the global transition to renewable energy…
In May 1984, a young ADNOC employee stepped into a lift at Abu Dhabi’s InterContinental Hotel, rode down two floors, and walked into a modest conference…
Every day, billions of cubic feet of CO2-laden gas flow into Kinder Morgan’s SACROC facility in West Texas — volumes so large, and concentrations so high,…
For decades, Peru’s largest refinery quietly vented hydrogen sulfide — a toxic byproduct of its own operations — into the atmosphere. Now, the Talara refinery is…
It is the most expensive error made by drilling operators when drilling horizontally, which typically occurs immediately prior to realizing that the operator is making one.…
We’re moving away from the idea that small decisions don’t have big impacts. There’s an overwhelming amount of information coming at you from all directions; however,…
For years now, there hasn’t really been a matter of if we could reach the oil and natural gas in the deepest parts of the Earth…
Offshore oil projects rarely fail due to geology alone. Most often, challenges emerge as schedules stretch out, interfaces multiply, and execution risks compound through long project…
Fuel pipeline logistics in the Southwest U.S. typically go unnoticed unless a shortage of supplies or a constraining supply route exists. In recent months, one refined…
The conversation around jet fuel shortages often starts in the wrong place. Most assume the issue is crude oil supply, geopolitical blockades, or logistics constraints. That…
The industry-standard LWD azimuthal resistivity tool operates on the principle of electromagnetic wave propagation. It measures the attenuation and phase shift of electromagnetic waves across several…
Drilling and other preparatory work at major upstream energy projects often proceed with little public visibility until effects become apparent beyond the project site. Rigs and…
The Beetaloo Basin now belongs in any serious discussion of future gas supply in Australia. East coast market agencies have kept warning that supply adequacy will…
BP’s new acreages in Namibia are drawing fresh attention to how exploration priorities are being reshaped. For many years, Namibia’s offshore basins were mostly seen as…
Egypt’s offshore gas sector is at an important turning point as BP and ADNOC are investing in developing natural gas resources off the coast of the…
Strategic collaboration between energy companies has become increasingly important in response to rising demand for cleaner fuels, geopolitical factors, and the rapid evolution of liquefied natural…
Typically, as offshore oil fields age and are moved toward redevelopment, there is more scrutiny applied toward how they were evaluated as part of their respective…
After confirming the existence of a commercial oil reserve, the pace often slows as attention turns to longer‑term assessment of the resource and the viability of…
On the surface, most reports regarding oil production seem fairly straightforward and uneventful. That is exactly the case in PetroNor’s recent report. What makes this report…
Offshore oil and gas activities take considerable time to develop even after a discovery announcement, so project timelines are often extended. Recently, announcements associated with ExxonMobil…
The global energy debate often presents the idea of an equilibrium between supply and demand, as well as sustainable development, but it rarely seems to be…
