Drilling & production

Clane LaCrosse, CEO of Bosque Systems, has been announced as a finalist in the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year 2014, Southwest Region.

Caterpillar Oil & Gas has been chosen to provide 24 ATEX Zone 2 explosion proof packages to Airpac Bukom Oilfield Services.

Two subsea electrical submersible pumping systems have been brought on line at the Cascade field, operated by Petrobras America Inc. in the Gulf of Mexico.

GE has announced a new technology partnership with Devon Energy at its new Global Research Oil & Gas Technology Center in Oklahoma City.

Robert Morgan, Executive Chairman, Atlas, argues that learning technology is a vital component of solving the skills gap.

Lundin Norway is about to complete drilling of appraisal well 16/1-18 on the Edvard Grieg oil field in the North Sea.

Attendance at OTC 2014 reached a 46 year high of 108 300, the highest in show history and up 3.3% from last year.

According to a research report by consulting firm Molten, many oil and gas companies are ‘borderline irresponsible’ in treatment of data.

EY has released the findings of it bi-annual Oil and Gas Capital confidence barometer.

On May 2, the China’s CNOOC placed its deep sea drilling rig HD-981 in disputed waters south of the Paracel Islands. Vietnam objected to the placement.

The company reported a first quarter net loss of US$ 50 million or US$ 0.21 per fully diluted share, and an operating loss of US$ 42 million.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has released its first ever Oil and Gas Annual Report.

Douglas-Westwood: Western Europe will continue to rely on Russian gas into the 2020s as mature provinces struggle for growth and shale gas remains unlikely.

A selection of stories from this week’s upstream oil and gas news.

Global natural gas activity showed very mixed results in 2013, according to CEDIGAZ in its latest survey.