Stephen Rassenfoss

How do you make new money from old offshore fields? The choice between investing in older assets or decommissioning them depends on oil and gas prices, the ingenuity of technical people, and the willingness of a company’s executives to hold on to older assets.

Hitting the next well during fracturing happens all the time. Predictably doing that on a large scale in granite looks a lot harder.

Oil companies would have to pay a premium for the hardware and services needed for rapid expansion. But is that likely?

Drillers are feeling good about higher oil prices, but only to a point.

The enrollment trend in petroleum engineering programs continues downward, but a big increase in oil prices has resurrected thoughts of past enrollment booms.

Sanctions imposed on Russia spare the oil and gas industry because US elected leaders fear voter outrage over higher prices and short supplies.

The trend toward drilling longer horizontal wells is growing with lateral lengths of 3 miles reached.

The perspectives gained from the Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference offer a glimpse of life after COVID-19, which looks better and different.

Compared with 2020, the largest discoveries made last year may hold just a third of the oil and gas reserves, according to new data from Westwood Global Energy Group.

Tight gas supplies, and uncertain Russian gas supplies mean sky-high prices for LNG suppliers now and a chance to lock in attractive contracts long term. But this opportunity won’t last forever.