During the Covid pandemic, when several industries were forced to halt operations and workers were required to stay at home due to restrictions, many companies began to embrace alternative ways of working to ensure they were able to adapt to the change. While many office workers had an easy...
American oil and gas companies have been at the forefront of pushing innovation over the past 20 years. Yet strangely, outside of a few small think tanks and industry groups in Washington, we hear very little that is positive about this American success story and the benefits it has...
Ever since coming to office in 2018, Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) has been pushing for greater energy nationalization. AMLO cites over-greedy international energy companies, sectoral corruption, and the need for enhanced national energy security as the main reasons behind the scheme. However, nationalization comes at a...
On March 19, 2020, the State of California became the first state to issue a stay-at-home order, mandating all residents stay at home except to go to an essential job or shop for basic needs. Within weeks most of the world followed.
For the next three months total energy use across...
Modern oil companies are going digital. To accomplish that, they are looking for easy-to-install, easy-to-use solutions that solve an immediate problem using cost-effective digital technology. Those three attributes—easy to install, easy to use, and cost-effective—are reshaping well monitoring, and by extension the oil and gas industry as a whole. Well-monitoring...
High-impact oil exploration has returned to the scene following a bleak 2021, which saw a relatively low success rate in discovering new oil and gas resources. In fact, it was one of the lowest on record. But this year is seeing a much higher success rate with high-impact offshore...
As much of the world continues to battle with energy shortages and rising oil and gas prices, it has become clear just how much we continue to rely on a few specific powers to provide the world with much-needed fossil fuels. While a comprehensive transition to green energy sources...
A small, largely overlooked country in South America has become the center of the world’s oil future, offering low-carbon and low-cost oil production with the potential for an output of 1 million bpd. Guyana, which borders Brazil, Venezuela, and Suriname could be the world’s next big oil power, as...
In one corner, we have the Whitehouse continuing to vilify oil and gas and praise “green new deal” initiatives. Among these is a push for increased investment in companies and funds which prioritize Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG). In the other corner, we have Texas Governor Abbott’s legislative response to...
As pressure to curb carbon emissions mounts ever higher, oil and gas companies are looking at ways to reduce their CO2 output. The long-practiced technique of gas flaring is no longer acceptable in countries looking to dramatically reduce their impact on the environment, meaning that oil firms are rapidly...
