The Fischer-Tropsch reactors used in smaller scale gas-to-liquids plants may be configured to efficiently produce 1,500-15,000 barrels a day of liquid fuels, consuming 15,000-150,000 MMBtu of natural ...

Horizontal drilling and multistage hydraulic fracturing have unlocked vast quantities of natural gas in shale reservoirs. The lessons learned are being modified to achieve the same success in a ...

Christian Antkowiak is a shareholder at Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney in Pittsburgh, Pa. His experience includes defending multistate class and collective actions, and serving as advisor to general ...

After a flurry of activity in the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale (TMS) met with some unexpected geological challenges three years ago, the persistent independent producers that stuck with the play say they ...

DENVER–The North American natural gas industry is in search of an environmental and economic solution to address significant fuel use. Because natural gas has potential for widespread applications, it ...

EVERGREEN CO.–Producers continue to shift significant budget dollars to liquids-rich plays, including high-Btu gas and crude/condensate production with high-Btu associated gas. The result is growing ...

NEW ORLEANS–With more than 70 percent of Gulf of Mexico oil production coming from wells in water depths greater than 1,000 feet, it is hard to believe deepwater wells accounted for only half of that ...

According to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection’s annual report on oil and gas activity, operators produced 6.1 trillion cubic feet from the Marcellus and Utica in 2018–the most ...

COLLEGE STATION, TX.–The Lower Tertiary Wilcox formation the Gulf of Mexico is estimated to contain more than 25 billion barrels of oil, and there is a high degree of certainty in hydrocarbon presence ...

ST. LOUIS–Thoughts about the not-too-distant-future supply/demand balance for oil field tubular goods are causing consternation at the end-user, distributor, importer and pipe producer levels. This ...

HOUSTON–Capital expenditures, personal and equipment resources, acreage lease restrictions, and market conditions all strongly influence drilling and development schedules in unconventional resource ...

TULSA–The Granite Wash is a large unconventional play stretching across the southwest Anadarko Basin in the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma. Although it has been developed for decades using vertical ...