New fracking methods are transforming oil and gas extraction productivity, providing access to at least 167 shale oil and gas field deposits that are distributed among several states.
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Roustabouts are the workers who assemble and repair oil and gas field equipment.
For its part, India has declared an interest in securing a stake in future Russian oil and gas field developments.
According to IBM a typical oil or gas field generates so much data that engineers spend one-third to 60 percent of their time on data-mining.
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Business advisory firm Deloitte said the amount of drilling, as well as the number of oil and gas field deals on the UK Continental Shelf, levelled out in the first quarter of this year.
This part of Texas is in the core of the Eagle Ford s hale, currently the most profitable oil and gas field in the U.S. The people around here understand that the fracking of this shale, the injection of billions of gallons of sand-and-chemical-laden water, takes place 2 miles beneath the ground.
Included in these are projects at Kharg Island and Dorood field, projects at the Balal oil field and a 40% stake in the South Pars natural gas field.
The oil giant BP says a gas field it runs in partnership with Norwegians and Algerians was attacked.
Upstream activities include oil and natural gas exploration, field development and production.
The company, which announced production hit a record 2.6 million barrels of oil equivalent per day, is still looking to oust Exxon Mobil and Chevron as the largest oil and gas player in the field.
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On-the-move workers in the utilities, field services, and oil and gas industries can easily carry it from place to place and have easy access to not only the Internet but also their companies' virtual private network (VPN) while they are away from the office.
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Total could also take the mantle, but while ExxonMobile has a history of timely efficiency in its projects, the Kazhak government probably fears a loss of bargaining power by letting the biggest oil and gas company in the world take control of its gas field.
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"The 16 January kidnapping and murder of foreign oil workers at the In Amenas gas field has cast a dark cloud over the outlook for the country's energy sector, " it said.
New finds in the Wattenberg Field north of Denver alone could contain more than a billion barrels of recoverable oil and natural gas, essentially matching the huge Eagle Ford or the Bakken Field in western North Dakota.
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Of late, the U.S. oil field services sector has been impacted by weak natural gas pricing, which has taken its toll on companies that offer pressure pumping services.
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Dana Petroleum Egypt has reported several significant exploration successes at North Zeit Bay during 2011, including encountering good quality oil-bearing sands and establishing two gas condensate field discoveries.
Consider Ormen Lange, a North Sea gas field shared by half a dozen oil giants.
Anglo-Dutch company Shell has beaten France's Total to a multi-billion-pound deal to develop a gas field with the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC).
China is the most important investor in Iranian exploration and extraction operations, and has been selected to develop the Azadegan and Yadavaran oil and natural gas fields, and the South Pars field.
Shares in Faroe Petroleum fell sharply on news that the oil and gas firm is to relinquish its licence for a field to the west of Shetland.
You can read about them here ( Leviathan Oil Field Could Supply Israel For Decades) and here ( Israel Confirms Leviathan Gas Find).
The Jubilee field there has an estimated 1.5 billion barrels of oil and natural gas equivalents (boe), with nearby Twenboa another 300 million boe or more.
This has driven down demand and pricing for pressure pumping services like fracking that are used to extract gas from shale rock formations, severely impacting margins of most large oil field firms including Baker Hughes.
The three oil majors will bid to help develop Russian gas monopoly Gazprom's vast Barents Sea Shtokman gas field.
The In Amenas gas field and its facilities are operated by a joint venture of the Algerian national oil company Sonatrach, BP and Statoil.
Each team will facilitate Federal field office coordination on regional infrastructure priorities including passenger rail, renewable energy, electricity transmission, oil and gas production, and drought mitigation.
China National Offshore Oil Corp: China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) signed a memorandum of understanding with Iran in 2006 to develop the Northern Pars gas field and build liquefied natural gas installations.
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Louisiana loses the equivalent of a football field worth of wetlands every hour, and 40 to 60 percent of that loss is attributed to oil and gas activity, including exploration and dredging of pipeline canals.
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