Drilling & production

Wood Mackenzie has said that China is to be faced with weaker gas demand and oversupply until 2017.

A new report has said that low world oil prices are going to slow Canadian oil production.

Highlights from a speech given by Andrea Leadsom, UK Energy Minister on Iraqi energy.

Mark G. Mack, PhD, Oxane Materials, Inc., reviews the importance of proppant selection for shale reservoirs and looks at the keys to optimising conductivity, proppant transport and cost.

As of 9 June, the production licences can submit applications for extension of deadlines in the exploration period (the initial period) to the authorities through the online portal SMIL instead of sending normal application letters.

Fugro has successfully completed a year-long wellhead monitoring project for BP Americas Inc, measuring BOP stack motions and calculating wellhead fatigue during a deployment in the Gulf of Mexico.

Paul Bonner, John Colpo, Jason Moody, and Steven Rogers, Honeywell, USA, present the benefits of an integrated approach to subsea automation.

Announcements from companies active within the global oil and gas sector.

Analysts from Douglas Westwood ponder the future of Arctic oil and gas for USA.

Hydrocarbon Engineering previews a selection of companies active within the downstream hydrocarbon processing industry that will be exhibiting at ACHEMA 2015.

The agreement to deliver the deck for the utility and living quarter (ULQ) platform has an estimated total value for the Kvaerner-KBR partnership of approximately NOK6.7 billion.

UK Oil & Gas Investments PLC has announced that Schlumberger has independently assessed the petrophysics of Horse Hill-1 well.

Minor oil discovery northwest of the Snorre field in the North Sea.

Stress Engineering Services, Inc. has officially launched Stress Engineering and Construction, Inc.

IceBlue Refrigeration Offshore has expanded its fleet of DNV 2.7-1/EN 12079 reefers with the launch of a new Zone 2 certified refrigerated/freezer module.