The Offshore Contractors’ Association has invited trade unions to take part in fresh talks this week, in an effort to bring a pay dispute to an end. “Now all the trade union ballots have been declared we must focus all our energy on reaching a fair and reasonable settlement,” Paul Atkinson, CEO of the Offshore… Read more »
Monthly Archives: July 2017
EY Study Decodes Oil, Gas Perception Challenges in Young People
Here’s the good news: young consumers (millennials and Gen Z) have an overall positive view of the energy industry. The bad news? They don’t want to work in oil and gas. A 2017 study by EY, which polled 1,200 U.S. consumers ages 16 and older, revealed a few harsh realities. Namely, young people aren’t interested… Read more »
BB-1 Described as ‘Key Well’
“What we’re trying to do here is replicate what we saw at Hawk’s Hill,” Sanderson said in a brief video posted on the company’s Twitter page. “If we actually find the same sort of oil in the kimmeridge limestones here, then what that will do is show that we’ve essentially got a continuous oil deposit… Read more »
TECH SHOWCASE: A ‘Blindness’ Cure for Operators
Measuring actual, real-time fluid levels and gas flow rates in pressure control equipment can be challenging in drilling and flowback operations. It’s not unheard of for a problem to become evident only after a tank has overflowed or a kick has occurred. Weir Oil & Gas, a unit of The Weir Group PLC that provides… Read more »
