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Methane pricing assessments - bringing transparency to an emerging market for less carbon intensive production

November 15, 2021
S & P Global
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Step 1 in Digital Transformation: Requirements Management

September 15, 2021
Siemens
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Implementing a Successful Oil & Gas Sampling Program

July 15, 2021
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The rise of digital twins: Delivering on their promise

March 01, 2021
Wood
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January 25, 2021
Europe’s three largest oil and gas companies -- Total, BP and Royal Dutch Shell -- all announced plans last year to eliminate most greenhouse gas emissions from their operations and the fuels they sell in the coming decades. It marked a turning point for the petroleum industry in the region, and heightened its divergence from U.S. majors that have yet to make such pledges.
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January 22, 2021
“By 2030, we still need to have capacity of approximately 650 to 700 million tons of LNG in place,” Chief Executive Officer Lorenzo Simonelli told analysts and investors Thursday on a conference call. “You’re looking at 50 to 100 million tons FIDing over the course of the next three to four years.”
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January 20, 2021
Even before Biden’s inauguration, the oil and gas industry was on its back foot when it came to building major new infrastructure. Despite Donald Trump’s pro-fossil-fuel policies, energy companies such as Williams Cos. and Dominion Energy Inc. have been forced to scrap new projects in the face of stiff opposition.
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January 14, 2021
Over the long-term, the impacts of behavioral shifts due to COVID-19 are minor compared to “known” long-term shifts such as decreasing car ownership, growing fuel efficiencies and a trend towards electric vehicles, whose impact is estimated to be three-to-nine times higher than the pandemic’s by 2050.
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January 11, 2021
The 23rd World Petroleum Congress – with the theme Innovative Energy Solutions will provide the platform for open dialogue between consumers and producers, governments and industry, academia and financiers, leaders and society, in order to address these issues and present debates, developments and solutions for sustainable production and use of the world's energy resources.
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Increasing Well Delivery Efficiency through Enhanced Scheduling

September 14, 2020
Acetnum
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Prescriptive Maintenance: Transforming Asset Performance Management

February 26, 2020
AspenTech
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December 30, 2019
Oil rose for a fifth session, the longest run of gains since July, as a bigger-than-forecast decline in U.S. crude stockpiles eased oversupply concerns.
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December 26, 2019
If 2019 was the year when a clutch of Middle East markets burst into the mainstream, then 2020 will test whether the foreign money keeps flooding in.
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December 24, 2019
Oil prices are likely to remain in check during 2020 as OPEC+ production cuts are offset by higher output from other countries and a mixed outlook for demand, according to analysts.
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December 23, 2019
Murban is typically prized for its light and middle distillate yield but the grade’s price has dropped as Asian refiners focus on purchasing oil that produces more low-sulfur, high-viscosity marine fuels due to IMO 2020.
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December 20, 2019
Global oil markets notched up a number of milestones this year that echoed the story of the past decade: the world has shifted from an era of supply tightness to plenty.
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December 19, 2019
“This is an exciting step towards a circular economy for the polyester industry,” said Rita Griffin, COO of petrochemicals for BP. “But we know we cannot create circularity on our own.”
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December 16, 2019
The international effort to rein in fossil fuel pollution took a step backward this weekend after envoys at a marathon round of United Nations talks watered down language on issues they had agreed on in previous years.
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December 13, 2019
Energy equity carnage was alive and well throughout 2019, and the start of 2020 could bring more of the same for the beaten-up sector, though some analysts are turning positive.
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December 12, 2019
The U.S. oil giant called time on its Kitimat LNG plant on Wednesday, saying it plans to sell its 50% stake and that the project “will not be funded by Chevron and may be of higher value to another company.”
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December 11, 2019
Following the theme Innovative Energy Solutions, the program will feature eight high-level plenary sessions across five days, with several global leaders from the oil and gas sector now confirmed to speak.
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