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UAS Commercialization: Industry Review
October 08 by Oil & Gas IQ EditorGregory McNeal, Professor of Law and Public Policy at Pepperdine University School of Law as well as a prolific writer and media personality shares three of the latest UAS commercialization stories....
How Offshore Drilling Companies Realize ROI on an EAM Software Investment
September 15 by Oil & Gas IQ EditorThe offshore industry is struggling right now to deal with growth and an increased focus on asset integrity management (AIM) and risk management. That is why more rig owners and operators are reasse...
Walking The Talk: Successful HPHT Drilling Is About Culture
September 03 by Tim HaïdarIn this interview, we speak with Laurie Scott, Drilling and Wells Superintendent at Wintershall Norge AS about his experiences drilling the company’s first HPHT well in April 2014, and his opinions...
Editorial: Paving The Way For A British Energy Revolution?
July 29 by Tim HaïdarOn Monday 28th July, the British government opened its first oil and gas on-shore licensing round for six years. Decline in production and revenues from North Sea reserves, coupled with recent in...
HPHT: Terminator, Google & Whats Right About Getting It Wrong
July 21 by Oil & Gas IQ EditorFrom 1987 to 2013, almost 300 high pressure high temperature (HPHT) wells were drilled on the UK Continental Shelf.Organised into three categories, these wells not only represent the pioneering forefr...
[TRANSCRIPT] Modular Construction In Oil & Gas - The Operator Perspective
July 11 by Tim HaïdarIn this exclusive podcast, Tim Haðdar, Editor-in-Chief ofOil & Gas IQ speaks with Martin Clutterbuck, Manager, Fabrication and Modularisation at Devon Canada about what’s coming down the pike in m...
Rebuilding Iraq: regenerating a nation
May 21 by Tim HaïdarIn this exclusive podcast, Editor-in-Chief of Oil & Gas IQ, Tim Haðdar, speaks with George Sarraf, Partner at Strategy& about his work in constructing a local content framework for post-dictatorship I...
Editorial: Hold On, Did The Cold War Just Get Arctic?
April 22 by Tim HaïdarARMS RACE: "The participation of two or more nation-states in apparently competitive or interactive increases in quantity or quality of war material and/or persons under arms." Last Friday,...
3 Ways The 2014 UK Budget Will Affect Oil & Gas
March 19 by Tim HaïdarOn Wednesday March 19th, British Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne presented his budget to the assembled Houses of Parliament. The tax breaks announced in the 2013 budget prompted an...
THE WOOD REPORT - UKCS Maximising Recovery Review: Final Report
February 25 by Oil & Gas IQ EditorThe follow up to his interim report into the state of the UK oil industry, Sir Ian Wood's UKCS Maximising Recovery Review: Final Report was released on 24th February 2014. This in-depth 72-page trea...
The Optimism Bias - Megaprojects Fail Because We Are Hardcoded To Lie
February 24 by Tim HaïdarIn this exclusive podcast for Oil and Gas IQ, Tim Haðdar speaks with Giorgio Locatelli, Member of EU Megaproject Initiative and Senior Lecturer at the University of Lincoln. In the course of his i...
The 6 Keys To Securing India’s Oil Future
February 11 by Gaurav AgnihotriWith rapid strides in the field of unconventional oil, new oil and gas technologies and IT solutions, countries world over have started taking effective measure to safeguard their energy needs as th...