HOUSTON–Utilizing a “design one, build two (or more)” production facilities approach, Anadarko Petroleum Corp. and its partners achieved first oil on a newly installed truss spar at the deepwater Gulf ...

HOUSTON–With offshore development migrating into ever-deeper waters, the industry is relying on subsea technology to facilitate increased oil and gas recovery while lowering costs and improving safety ...

HOUSTON–The United States ranked number one in the world for both crude oil and natural gas production growth last year, and U.S. producers appear to be positioned to defend that title in 2013 and ...

AUSTIN, TX.–Operators and service firms are acutely aware that one of the key challenges of horizontal pad well architectures is avoiding interwell interference between parent wells and newly drilled ...

DENVER–In tight oil plays such as the Niobrara, Bakken and Eagle Ford, multiwell pads with four or more high-volume horizontal wells–often producing multiphase liquid and gas streams–require ...

As independent producers of natural gas seek to foster markets for their molecules, the bulk of the attention has been focused in only a few areas such as power generation, transportation and possible ...

TULSA–The Granite Wash is a large unconventional play stretching across the southwest Anadarko Basin in the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma. Although it has been developed for decades using vertical ...

From the panhandle of West Virginia to eastern Ohio, southwestern Pennsylvania and northeastern Pennsylvania, independent operators are finding great success drilling longer laterals and becoming more ...

DALLAS–Selecting landing zones for horizontal wells in the Permian Basin and other resource plays requires more complex analysis than simply choosing a geologic top beneath which to drill. Why did ...

Sometimes it is nice to stop and smell the roses. Within the span of a dozen years from the 2004 drilling of the Marcellus discovery well in Washington County, Pa., oil and gas operators ramped up ...

ROBERT KESSLER is program manager, maritime global data solutions, at Oceaneering International Inc. His responsibilities include the development and application of the Oceaneering ® TerminalSmart™ ...

HOUSTON–Novel and unique installations of solid expandable tubulars illustrate how the technology can minimize the risk and maximize the efficiency of operations. Significant enhancements and the ...