By Amit Mehta CEO of Houston-based Moblize (www.moblize.com Well drilling is utilizing more and more technology each year, yet engineers are still making many key decisions based on educated guesses. However, driven by innovative professionals, skilled in both E&P and data analytics, daily operations are becoming much more technically precise. Making People Smarter…
In Calgary’s corporate headquarters, it had been long been acknowledged, very quietly of course, that Saskatchewan’s energy regulator is “a bit lax” in how it policed the oilpatch. Executives believed they could get away with more. Sadly, last fall a consortium of media claimed it had uncovered almost five years of violations in how industry…
By Heather Douglas “In the United States between 2005 and 2015, there were 85 deaths due to fires or explosions at oil and gas wellsites, including 27 ignited by mobile engines or auxiliary motors.” United States Department of Labor, Occupational Health & Safety Administration (OHSA), June 2017. This summer, the Americans issued a safety alert…
Breakthrough in Lowering Costs in Lifting Oil, Light or Heavy “There’s a way to do it better – find it.” Thomas Edison (1847 – 1931). In what’s being called a ‘game-changer,’ the upstream oil industry now has access to the new technological advanced wellhead polished rod with the world’s hardest, densest, and highest melt point…
