Mixed views on if US deepwater R&D has stalled
In a survey carried out at the Houston Offshore Technology Conference, respondents gave mixed answers to the question of whether research and development in deepwater research and development has stalled since the Macondo disaster.
04 May 2012

8 data standards organisations public meeting in Houston June 28
8 oil and gas data standards organisations will be holding a public meeting in Houston on June 28th.
01 May 2012

Shell to host first ITF event in Houston
ITF (Industry Technology Facilitator), an industry owned organisation which helps companies work together to develop new technology, has announced that Shell will host its first Houston meeting, which will be held in Shell's Houston offices in September 2012.
01 May 2012

PNEC "Cornerstone" award to Madelyn Bell and Jess B Kozman
This year's "Cornerstone" award, connected with the May 15-17 Houston 2012 Petroleum Network Education Conference (PNEC), will be given to Madelyn Bell, Commercial Data Advisor for ExxonMobil Technical Computing Company in Houston, and Jess B. Kozman, Lead Data Management Practitioner and Consultant, Westheimer Energy Consultants Inc. in Houston.
25 Apr 2012

SPE Abu Dhabi and ADNOC workshop on oil and gas data management
The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Abu Dhabi section, together with Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), is running a workshop on oil and gas data management in Abu Dhabi on May 30-31, 2012.
25 Apr 2012

NASA's Johnson Space Center certified by Opito for oil and gas training
The high consequences ("Hi-Con") training program at NASA's Johnson Space Center has been approved to provide oil and gas survival training courses, by the Offshore Petroleum Industry Training Organisation (OPITO).
25 Apr 2012

Schlumberger contributes $3,000 to AAPG student chapters
Schlumberger has announced a contribution of $3,000 in scholarships to student chapters of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.
25 Apr 2012

Rajant - Kinetic mesh communications across the Gulf of Mexico
Rajant Corporation is building a mesh 25-100 mbps wireless communications system for the Gulf of Mexico, with nodes on all the platforms and vessels, to allow high speed data communications across the entire Gulf
12 Apr 2012

Floating LNG - a revolution for gas production?
There are many offshore gas fields which can't be produced using conventional means, due to the cost of piping it to a market - but if you could liquefy it offshore and put it in tankers, many things become possible. Shell is developing the world's first such project
12 Apr 2012

Shell - managing competence of wells staff
The best way to keep wells safe is to make sure that all the people working on them know what they are doing - and you are confident of this. Shell has a range of processes in place to confirm this happens
12 Apr 2012

Shell - new well control equipment
Shell is developing a range of new equipment and tools for preventing uncontrolled releases of hydrocarbon during the construction of wells, including well control automation, explosive devices to cut drill pipe apart, blow out preventer caps and pipe crushers.
12 Apr 2012

Intelligent Energy 2012 - focus on business processes
Perhaps the strongest theme to emerge at the Intelligent Energy 2012 event, held in Utrecht this week (March 26-29), is a focus on improving business processes.
29 Mar 2012