Exploration

Upstream players are calling for a simpler and more unified computing environment to help them manage information overload, according to a Microsoft Corp. and Accenture survey.

Ingrain, a digital rock physics company, has announced the opening of its newest digital rock physics lab, located in Mussafah, Abu Dhabi.

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.

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

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.

Chevron has acquired interest in three blocks in South China Sea’s Pearl River Mouth Basin from Devon Energy China Ltd.

Global Marine Systems has announced the successful completion of the Gjøa power cable installation. Gjøa is the first ever floating platform to have power supplied by a direct link from shore, and will contribute to a greener source of energy, reducing carbon emissions by an estimated 210 000 tpy.

Some of the latest Hurricane Earl news.

Greenpeace lawyers have threatened the UK government with legal action over deep sea drilling in British waters, as four Greenpeace climbers who spent nearly 48 hrs in sub zero temperatures on an Arctic oil rig ended their occupation early this morning.

With the investigation into the underlying cause of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico underway, people are starting to scrutinise the software systems that controlled the blow-out preventer amongst other things. What steps can be taken to make sure control systems are foolproof?