By using new pipeline cameras to evaluate how well separators remove liquids from gas flows, gas processing plants can increase natural gas liquid recoveries, reduce costs and extend the life of critical equipment, including downstream pipelines. These benefits come from the cameras’ ability to reveal liquids in gas that traditional monitoring techniques report as dry ..read more

To optimize gas compression economics, companies must account for the methane waste fee in the Inflation Reduction Act. Fortunately, proven technologies can minimize its effects ..read more

The Anadarko Basin’s long history of oil and gas development has given the region’s operators the detailed data they need to find intervals where modern drilling and completion techniques can release vast reserves. Three operators who are proving new plays – Lynx Resource Partners, Canvas Energy and Alvarado Minerals – share the technologies and best practices that are helping them succeed ..read more

By empowering producers and service companies to create, test and refine bespoke software quickly, low-code platforms can digitize processes that are too idiosyncratic for out-of-the-box tools to handle. In the oil field, these platforms can help streamline everything from collecting drilling records and tracking production to reading sensors and scheduling personnel ..read more

By instructing agencies to consider individual projects’ impacts on climate change, the White House Council on Environmental Quality’s Interim Guidance on Consideration of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate Change will create duplicative work that undermines efforts to promote energy security, API argues ..read more

Hyperactive federal regulation continues to keep Texas oil and gas companies up at night, according to the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers 2003 Pulse of the Oil Patch survey. But participants also see numerous reasons for hope, with a majority saying they expect things to go well for their company in 2023 ..read more

Although a couple years have passed since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the market is still reeling from economic and political uncertainty, and the recent failures of Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank and Silvergate Bank have spurred signficant concern about the overall health of the financial services industry ..read more

The Haynesville Shale is in an enviable position with massive recoverable reserves and an ideal geographic location in the midst of Gulf Coast pipeline infrastructure and demand epicenters. Two of the most innovative companies in the play, Comstock Resources and Rockcliff Energy, explain why they are as excited as ever about the Haynesville’s future and detail how they are extending the formation’s high-yield core westward with new drilling and completion strategies ..read more

Operators and equipment manufacturers can save money and simplify their supply chains by using machine learning to develop appicaiton-specific standards to determine when downhole tools should be repaired or replaced ..read more

New technologies are helping operators and service companies keep employees safe, protect water supplies, and shrink greenhouse gas emissions. In many cases, these technologies also increase profits ..read more