Special reports

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.

A new DNV GL JIP is investigating the accuracy of flow meter technology for phase contaminated oil flows.

Matthew Navea, Preferred Sands, USA, presents a treated proppant solution to help reduce onsite exposure to crystalline silica dust.

A new market research report shows growth trend in the global oil and gas drill bits market.

Deloitte presents an overview of 2014 drilling and deal activity across the UK and Norway.

Examining the role of helicopter transportation in the offshore oil and gas industry.