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What motivates us to explore for oil & gas?
David Bamford writes: What motivates individuals, and especially, teams to explore for, develop and produce oil & gas? I guess like many aspiring managers, in my training I heard about Maslov's Hierarchy of Needs. So, I ask, does working in our industry offer: Safety = Security of reward, may...
» Written by Kieran Maloney on Friday, February 10, 2012
Solar Fuel: The next step in recyclable fuel
Not many research projects have grabbed the attention of the oil and gas industry more than Glasgow's solar fuel project, which aims to convert solar energy into fuels of liquid form for easy storage. The multi-million pound research scheme will work wonders for the oil and gas sector if success...
» Written by Hanife Mehmet on Wednesday, February 08, 2012
Exploration: Uganda exploration...
One author has said "The East African Rift System is now one of the world's 'exploration hotspots', potentially just as significant for landlocked Africa and its underexplored rift systems as the Barnett Shale in Texas was to the birth of unconventional shale gas in North America.&q...
» Written by David Bamford on Tuesday, February 07, 2012
Russia versus Ukraine... again...
As the pressure of gas dropped in France, Germany and Italy, Gazprom, always quick off the mark in PR terms, accused the Ukrainians of once again siphoning supplies bound for European markets from the pipeline system. But in this case Gazprom may well have been a little too quick to cry 'wolf...
» Written by Martin Foley and Martin Nunn on Monday, February 06, 2012
FoxDavies views from the trading floor - Sound Oil, Tullow Oil and Serica Energy
Sound Oil (LON:SOU) are one to watch for Monday, as in the previous announcement they said 'Sound Oil has been advised by the Operator that the Cataka-1 exploration well on the Citarum PSC, Java, Indonesia has encountered unstable formation in the top hole section, necessitating a sidetrack. The...
» Written by on Friday, February 03, 2012
Review: The Latin American Oil Industry - Out With The Old, In With The News...
The potential of the Latin American oil industry is slowing but surely coming to fruition. Although all roads appear to lead to growth, for producers and explorers alike, a number of sizeable hurdles remain. And it is these hurdles which keep the region's growing importance in the oil market ver...
» Written by Richard Etherington on Thursday, February 02, 2012
Oil & Gas outlook upbeat for 2012
Contractors in the oil and gas sector will find their stock rise after a report suggested many companies in the sector will look to increase their contractor levels in 2012. The Oil and Gas Salary Guide for 2012, by leading jobsite Oil and Gas Job Search and recruiter Hays Oil & Gas has found emplo...
» Written by Raj Ladwa on Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Technology: High Performance Data Management...
Most petrotechnical folk find efforts to integrate quite diverse sorts of data, in large amounts, frustrating. In reality, every project is 'different', requiring pretty flexible workflows whereas the products that IT managers like are standardised and allow only a constrained work flow. Th...
» Written by Karl Jeffrey on Tuesday, January 31, 2012