Special reports

BMT has developed a system to assimilate data from a range of topside-based sensors into a topside response learning system for mooring integrity monitoring.

Deloitte survey to look at how industry can better work together.

The US EIA has expanded its geographic coverage of natural gas production, with new data for 10 states.

Civil conflict has left Syria’s energy sector ‘in turmoil,’ according to the US Energy Information Administration.

The 2013 World Shale Gas and Shale Oil Resource Assessment noted large shale deposits in China and Argentina.

Employment in oil and natural gas extraction and support activities in the United States reached nearly 538 000 in October 2014.

A new report from the Energy Institute is highlighting what energy professionals are seeing as key priorities to meeting industry challenges.

Whilst the Kashagan field in Kazakhstan remains strong, Azerbaijan’s ACG project has achieved its peak, according to GlobalData.

BP has said that global primary energy consumption decelerated sharply last year, even thought global economic growth was similar to 2013.

Rystad Energy’s latest research indicates that 88 units within the floater market will have to be taken out between 2015 and 2017, making it the largest ever retirement cycle in the history of offshore drilling.

Pressure is growing on governments to adjust upstream fiscal terms in response to the low oil price, as highlighted by Wood Mackenzie.

Painting a bleak picture, North Sea oil and gas industry operators have been forced to cancel projects because of the recent fall in oil price, according to a recent industry report.

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.

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

Statoil’s Energy Perspectives report outlines a possible way to meet the 2-degree target, but will require a lot from many people.