Oil and natural gas companies are honing strategies for reducing production costs through effective water-management practices and wastewater disposal options, said a report commissoned by Barclays Research with contributions from Columbia Water Cener. Source: News

Total SA has let a contract to Amec Foster Wheeler PLC to deliver front-end engineering design for a project to boost production of cleaner fuels at subsidiary Total Raffinage France’s 219,000-b/d Donges refinery near Saint Nazaire, France. Source: News

Duqm Refinery & Petrochemical Industries Co. LLC (DRPIC), Muscat, a joint venture of state-owned Oman Oil Co. and Kuwait Petroleum Corp. subsidiary Kuwait Petroleum International Ltd., has awarded the first of three main packages for engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) of its long-planned 230,000-b/d refinery and petrochemical complex to be built in the Duqm Special […]

The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management issued a final programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) for geological and geophysical activities in the Gulf of Mexico. The International Association of Geophysical Contractors immediately expressed concerns over the document’s mitigation. Source: News

Fractures induced by hydraulic fracturing combine with natural fractures to create a complex network in China’s Longmaxi shale in the Sichuan basin. Source: News

Despite the region’s maturity, a range of companies continue to explore in the UKCS, taking advantage of the low cost of drilling following the oil price downturn. Source: News

Offshore exploration in Greece has been dormant since the 1990s, but new seismic and the industry’s renewed interest in carbonate plays such as the recent Zohr discovery in the Eastern Mediterranean are bringing major operators to the region. Within 3 years, the country may have enough data paired with new discoveries to offer a new […]