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Offshore Market Update: Activity in Gulf of Mexico Remains Steady
Over the past 16 months, the sharp decline in crude and natural gas prices has caused onshore oil production from U.S. shale plays to plummet. However, in the Gulf of Mexico (GoM), with many platforms continuing to produce and more set to come online in 2016, things...
Pipeline Risk Analysis and Modeling: Part 1
The pipeline remains one of the safest transportation methods for oil and gas in the U.S., but like any technology, it has its risks. One way to mitigate those risks is through regulation. Today's pipeline integrity management regulations, manifesting in the U.S. as...
Potable Reuse of Produced Water: Part 2
In the first part of our discussion on reusing produced water, we briefly looked at the numbers and considered the factors that play into an extraction company's associated water management plan. We stated water properties, budgets, available technology, research, and...
The Technological Future of Pipeline Integrity
This is the fifth and final blog post in our series on pipeline integrity management. To read the fourth post, click here. Companies with effective pipeline integrity programs have already discovered their tremendous benefits (e.g., having efficient...
Potable Reuse of Produced Water: Part 1
Defined by the United States Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation as "water that exists in subsurface formations [that] is brought to the surface during oil and gas production," produced water has long had the potential to become a resource rather than a...
Brownfield Engineering: The Life Line for Ailing, Aging Pipelines
This is the fourth blog post in our series on pipeline integrity management. To read the third post, click here. Caring for pipelines is a major engineering challenge. This is especially true for the aging U.S. pipeline infrastructure. Once a pipeline is in the...
How can drone technology benefit the oil and gas industry?
News headlines involving the topic of drones have been increasing in number since 2013, some including applications of the technology to the oil and gas industry. In fact, drone operating companies such as Sky-Futures think drone-based inspection technology will have...
Integrity Management Paves the Way for Effective Pipeline Design
This is the third blog in our series on Pipeline Integrity Management. To read the second post, click here. As seen with the recent shale boom, the U.S. pipeline industry has expanded tremendously within the last decade. The number of new pipeline construction...