Oil drilling

As OPEC and non-OPEC nations prepare to meet in Moscow on December 10 to discuss oil production limitations, residents of the Eagle Ford Shale region of South Texas are wondering how it all might impact their lives in the coming months.

Energy policy research from the University of Pennsylvania

Photo about Offshore oil rig drilling platform in the gulf of Thailand. Image of industrial, diesel, crude - 60337914

The Indonesian government has welcomed an Australian court ruling ordering Thailand’s PTT Exploration & Production (PTTEP) to pay compensation to

Nearly all deep sea drilling rigs are imported, and a bulk of the ones used in shallow waters to drill wells to probe and produce oil and gas are also of foreign origin.

Photographs of North Sea Oil Platforms

Shell’s Perdido Spar, the world’s deepest drilling and production platform, floating in more than 8,000 feet of water in the Gulf of Mexico’s Alaminos Canyon area – and an important component of how Shell and its partners once solved production infrastructure problem there. It’s also symbolic of the importance the deepwater Gulf continues to play in today’s energy picture. Story on page 10 of the October 2013 EXPLORER. Photo courtesy of Shell Oil.