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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 2012Contractors 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
European gas chessEver since he was elected, some 16 months ago, Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych has been seeking to renegotiate the gas supply deal approved by his predecessor and signed by then Prime Minister and now jailed, Yuliya Tymoshenko. The contract requires Ukraine to buy more gas than it needs or pay...
» Written by Martin Foley on Monday, January 30, 2012
FoxDavies views from the trading floor - Lochard Energy, Argos Resources and AminexLochard Energy were in vogue again today, jumping 14% to 9.25p by the end of lunch, on decent volume. Investors seem confident that the company is in a much better standing after the recent raise of £3.38 million at 7p. The placing, that was oversubscribed will be used to cover costs for the A...
» Written by FoxDavies Capital on Friday, January 27, 2012
Is Obama sticking to his word?Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar included in a statement: "Expanding offshore oil and gas production is a key component of our comprehensive energy strategy to grow America's energy economy, and will help us continue to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and create jobs here at home...
» Written by Hanife Mehmet on Thursday, January 26, 2012
Technology: 'Disruptive' Innovation in the Subsurface...The last big innovation or disruptive breakthrough in subsurface interpretation was almost 20 years ago when Geoquest and Landmark 'invented' the 3D seismic interpretation workstation. Since then, improvements have been incremental and the systems have fallen increasingly under the control o...
» Written by David Bamford on Monday, January 23, 2012
OilEdge: Manager - know thyself...Quality may be a measure of output but it also describes an aspect of a person and what makes them who they are. Personal qualities are valuable and should be greatly valued by oneself and the organisation that one works for. I recently conducted research into values and discovered that people perfo...
» Written by Kieran Maloney on Thursday, January 19, 2012