Drilling & production

Baker Hughes has acquired Meyer & Associates, a leading petroleum industry software developer.

Polarcus Limited has announced that the company is upgrading Polarcus Samur from the current six streamer arrangement to an eight streamer configuration.

Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s national oil company, has announced that it has huge reserves of unconventional gas in the form of shale gas, which could double its proved gas reserves.

Two notes from the American Petroleum Institute regarding new oil and natural gas industry taxes.

Shell oilsands expansion is now onstream.

American Petroleum Institute says Clean Air Act is not designed to address greenhouse gas emissions.

Cockatoo Coal has announced that it has raised AU$ 150.8 million to fund its joint purchase of five coal development and exploration assets in Australia.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said this week that the Senate will not pass legislation this year that imposes a price on carbon.

The recent UN and EU sanctions in response to its continued nuclear programme have left Tehran with few friends in the international community, and it is unsurprising that the states who intend to carry on doing business with such a contentious partner clearly have their own political agendas to pursue.

New Recovery Act funding boosts industrial carbon capture and storage research and development.

750 gather and call on Congress to focus on jobs and the economy in Canton, Ohio, rally.

DNV has compared the U.S. GOM and the Norwegian offshore drilling regulatory regimes. The study identified similarities, but overall there are some fundamental differences between the two countries’ regulations.

A consortium including B9 Coal, WSP Group, AFC Energy and Linc Energy is to develop a new clean coal project that will combine alkaline fuel cell technology with underground coal gasification.

Aker Solutions has been awarded the NOK 120 million contract for the tie-in of the Marulk field to the Norne FPSO.

September 2010: Kay Sever explains how the process of discovery is a subtle but important dynamic in every improvement programme.