Special reports

Mona K. Sutphen and Michael D. Wortley have been appointed as independent directors on the Pioneer Natural Resources Company Board of Directors.

Launches restructuring plan and accelerates cost reductions.

OECD energy production hit a new high in 2014.

Five years on, BP is set to pay a US$18.7 billion settlement for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.

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.