BOE Report

Enhanced Completions and Well Downspacing Keep the Bakken Pumping

LONDON, Sept. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Enhanced Completions and Well Downspacing Keep the Bakken PumpingSummaryThough oil prices continue to slowly creep upward, operators are still wary of shale economics. In lieu of expanding operations, companies are consolidating and innovating: turning to already de-risked acreage and heavily focusing on downspacing and improving well performance in core areas. Enhanced completion methods, longer laterals, more proppant, and new targets in the Lower Three [Read more]

Eagle Ford Shale: Crude Oil Prices Level Off Development Activity

LONDON, Sept. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Eagle Ford Shale: Crude Oil Prices Level Off Development ActivitySummaryOperators in the Eagle Ford have cut 2015 capital budgets significantly due to lower crude oil prices and in the near term further development of the play will slow significantly compared to 2014. In order to reduce costs quickly, rig contracts have been wound down by operators resulting in a large drop in active rigs during the first quarter of 2015. In order to improve drilling [Read more]

Energy Industry Experts Gathered to Discuss Supplier Diversity, Procurement Best Practices and Sustaining Operations During Industry-Wide Downturn

HOUSTON, Sept. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Energy industry experts gathered Friday at the Energy Summit and Business Expo in Houston to discuss insights on the importance of maintaining a diverse supply chain, procurement best practices and opportunities for sustaining operations during the current industry-wide downturn. The event was organized by the Houston Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and sponsored by Shell Oil. "This event was put together to provide a unique perspective on the implications [Read more]

Bristow Group To Present At The Johnson Rice Energy Conference

HOUSTON, Sept. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Bristow Group Inc. (NYSE: BRS), the leading provider of helicopter services to the offshore energy industry, today announced that the Company will be presenting at the Johnson Rice Energy Conference to be held in New Orleans, September 28 – 30, 2015. Jonathan E. Baliff, President and Chief Executive Officer of Bristow Group, and L. Don Miller, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, are scheduled to present on Monday, September 28, 2015 at 3:05 [Read more]

Oak Ridge National Laboratory Unveils SOM-Designed 3D-Printed Building Powered by a Car

OAK RIDGE, Tenn., Sept. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory today unveiled a 3D-printed building designed by the architecture, engineering and urban planning firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) in collaboration with ORNL researchers. The Additive Manufacturing Integrated Energy (AMIE) demonstration features a building that is powered by a 3D-printed vehicle developed by ORNL. Experience the interactive Multimedia News Release here: [Read more]

Consumer Watchdog Exposes Possible Exxon Cover Up As Investigators Seek Answers in Torrance Refinery Explosion

SANTA MONICA, Calif., Sept. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- ExxonMobil may be subverting a federal and state investigation into the explosion at its Torrance refinery last February that hobbled gasoline production and pushed gas prices sky high, Consumer Watchdog revealed in a letter to Governor Jerry Brown, US Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and California Attorney General Kamala Harris. "Exxon is denying documents requested under subpoena by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, information [Read more]

Columbia Pipeline Group and Columbia Pipeline Partners’ Mountaineer XPress Pipeline Advances, Enters Pre-Filing with Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

CHARLESTON, W.Va., Sept. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Columbia Pipeline Group, Inc. and Columbia Pipeline Partners LP (together, "Columbia")  today announced that their subsidiary, Columbia Gas Transmission, LLC received notification that its Mountaineer XPress Project ("MXP") was recently accepted into pre-filing by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ("FERC"). (Docket number PF15-31)  Columbia plans to formally file its application with the FERC for MXP and Gulf XPress ("GXP") in April [Read more]

Vepica Names Derek Blackwood New CEO

HOUSTON, Sept. 23, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Vepica Grupo Internacional (Vepica), a leading energy-industry engineering, procurement and construction firm and an ENR Top 225 company, today named former Wood Group executive, Derek Blackwood O.B.E., as its new chief executive officer. Blackwood takes over for Miguel Bocco, Jr. who will continue to serve as chairman of Vepica's Board of Directors. "We're thrilled to have Derek on board and at the helm at this important time in our company's history," [Read more]

FMC Technologies Awarded Contract for Shell Appomattox

HOUSTON, Sept. 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- FMC Technologies, Inc. has received an award from Shell Offshore, Inc. (Shell) for its Appomattox deepwater development in the Gulf of Mexico. FMC Technologies will provide Enhanced Vertical Deepwater Trees, subsea manifolds, topside controls, a control system, and a distribution system for the field, which lies in the Mississippi Canyon area of the eastern Gulf of Mexico in 7,200 feet of water, 140 nautical miles southeast of New Orleans. "FMC [Read more]

Report on voting results associated to the Annual Meeting of Shareholders on September 22, 2015

LAVAL, QC, Sept. 22, 2015 /PRNewswire/ - Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc. (TSX: ATD.A ATD.B) held its Annual Meeting of Shareholders today. All the candidates proposed as directors were elected by a majority of the votes cast by the shareholders present or represented by proxy at the meeting:   QUESTIONS PRESENTED FOR VOTING IN FAVOR(#) IN FAVOR(%) WITHHOLD(#) WITHHOLD(%) Alain Bouchard 1,754,442,227 99.48% 9,175,472 0.52% Nathalie Bourque 1,759,091,464 99.74% [Read more]