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Dr. Rashid Khan, Head of Intellectual Property at Saudi Aramco, provided a bit of perspective to delegates at the Unconventional Gas Forum in Barcelona, Spain. In 1899, he recalled Charles Doyle was the head of the US patent office: “He said ‘Everything that can be invented, has already...
After spending many years in various technical and leadership assignments at Shell, Dr. Azra Tutuncu, Director of Unconventional Gas & Oil Institute and Campbell Chair at the Colorado School of Mines, figured out a great way to continue in and pass on unconventional oil and gas know-how to future...
A group led by Wintershall has started production from K18-Golf field. Wintershall initially plans to produce 35.3 MMcfd of gas from the Permian Rotliegend formation discovered in 2005, via one subsea well. A second production well next summer is set to maintain plateau between 35 and 50 MMcfd.
San Leon Energy has announced that it has identified a number of potential shale gas zones following the drilling, evaluation and casing of the Siciny-2 well in Poland. During drilling, San Leon identified four potential shale intervals, which made continuous gas shows (C1-C3). Another continuous...
London-listed Aurelian Oil & Gas has said it is exploring "strategic options" with the possibility of a sale or merger among the options under consideration. In a confident statement released today, Aurelian said even after a successful 2011, the company was not reaching its full potential...
Diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, but diamondoids are a driller’s best friend, especially when it comes to exploration and production of unconventional gas. So said Jeremy Dahl, Research Associate at Stanford University Department of Advanced Materials, who spoke at the Tight and Shale...
Ascent Resources has completed fracture stimulation of the Pg-10 well at the the Petišovci Project in Slovenia, with successful stabilised gas flow confirmed. The company says that preliminary testing on the shallowest two stages has shown a stabilised flow rate of 8.5 MMscfd (240,000 cubic metres;...
Perhaps one of the more eyebrow-raising presentations at London’s 2011 Shale Gas Environmental Summit was that of Germany’s Klaus Sontgerath, head of department, Lower Saxony State Authority for Mining, Energy and Geology. In his presentation, he illustrated that Germany – one...
In a speech at the Foundation for Science and Technology, London, England, November 11, 2011, Malcolm Brinded, Executive Director of Upstream International at Royal Dutch Shell, makes the case for the tight and shale gas revolution as a powerful force for good. By displacing coal-fired power, natural...
Kulczyk Oil Ventures Inc. has successfully completion of the second reservoir stimulation in Ukraine using hydraulic fracturing technology on the R30c zone in the Ologovskoye-8 ("O-8") well. After being frac'd, the O-8 well flowed gas at a rate of 1 million cubic feet per day ("MMcf/d") through a 7 mm...