Petroleum exploration in the Arctic is more technically challenging than any other environment in the world – because of its remote location and severe weather conditions. However, with increases in technology […]
Saskatchewan is blessed with many natural resources: abundant energy supplies, diverse mineral deposits and a large, rich land base that continues to grow high-quality grains and oilseeds. Saskatchewan continues to produce a large surplus of […]
Norway’s North Sea, Norwegian Sea, and Barents Sea are together the world’s most capital- intense oil-gas market. A fifth straight record year of investment is forecast here, and exciting new discoveries include the biggest […]
I’ve just landed and stepped down onto the baking heat of the black tarmac at Jackson International Airport here in PNG. This country is the site of a new resource battleground, where western exploration […]
The Cooper Basin is a desert like no other; it’s not the hottest or the driest. What it is, however, is truly enormous—on a scale that’s nearly unimaginable. Flying over the vast […]
While analyzing the current tendencies in the industry, most of the oil and gas experts unite in at least one forecast—that the impressive sustainable development of the Montney Play area […]
If someone arranged a quiz in Japan on the topic “What do you know about Canada?” it is most likely that participants would quickly score the highest over the province […]
A bumper sticker popular years ago in Texas read: “If you don’t own an oil well, get one.” With nearly 16,000 oil and gas wells drilled in the state in […]
Introduction The Republic of the Congo has been producing oil since 1957, but production increased sharply following offshore discoveries in the early 1980s at Pointe-Noire that have since made the […]
Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada’s easternmost province, is a wild place. It is home to massive mountain ranges, endless bogs, more black flies than can be properly considered necessary, and a […]