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July 08, 2025
The Global Energy Show Canada (GESC) concluded after three days of high impact discussions and industry innovations. Held at Calgary’s BMO Centre, the event brought together over 36,387 attendees and nearly 400 exhibitors from across the energy value chain.
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July 03, 2025
The Energy Workforce & Technology Council (EWTC) on Thursday released its June 2025 jobs report, reflecting a modest dip in employment within the energy services sector amid continued economic uncertainty.
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June 2025
An innovative gas processor combines multiple technologies into a single unit, to increase the gas handling efficiency of ESPs in unconventional wells. 
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June 26, 2025
Dräger’s Safety & Health at Work Report 2025 finds that 65 % of UK employees link poor psychological safety to physical risks and 63 % feel too much responsibility is pushed onto staff. The study urges companies to address outdated equipment, mental-health gaps, and cautious AI roll-outs.
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June 2025
Within oil production, inhibitors—including wax depositions, hard scale, and corrosion—provide operators with challenging obstacles to consider and overcome. To maximize production, several techniques and solutions are available to optimize flow efficiency within a pipeline or wellbore.  
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June 2025
A recently introduced, boosted gas separator design that incorporates a new gas handler pump and gas separation system can be used with other advanced technologies to optimize ESP performance in gassy unconventional environments. This system improves lift efficiency, increases oil production and extends ESP service life.  
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June 12, 2025
The final day of URTeC on June 11 saw continued discussions on the opportunities and challenges facing the unconventional resources sector.  One of these challenges was not a discussion unique to URTeC; from conferences like CERAWeek earlier this year to present, the issue of sourcing new talent and preventing knowledge loss in the industry has been a persistent concern across the oil and gas industry.
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June 11, 2025
The Gulf’s rising importance represents a turnaround from the past two decades, when the region took a backseat to the U.S. shale boom. But now tumbling crude prices are hurting shale drillers while major, longer-term Gulf projects are starting to come online. 
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June 11, 2025
ADNOC is evaluating whether it can buy some of bp Plc’s key assets should the embattled British firm decide to break itself up or come under pressure to divest more units, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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June 10, 2025
Odfjell Technology and Oilfield Service Professionals (OSP) have entered a global strategic partnership aimed at enhancing operational performance, efficiency, and innovation across international oilfield markets.
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June 06, 2025
Kongsberg Maritime has announced a partnership with Solstad, Østensjø, DeepOcean, and Remota that will launch a pilot project to explore the potential for remote Dynamic Positioning (DP) operations in the offshore sector.
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June 04, 2025
Banks are staying confident in long-term energy fundamentals despite significant trade policy turbulence, according to the Spring 2025 Haynes Boone Energy Bank Price Deck Survey. The survey, now in its 12th edition, is a leading source of information for energy lenders and producers.
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May 2025
The new Hummingbird all-electric land cementing unit is making its debut in field trials this year, and it stands to improve sustainability, reliability, efficiencies and safety of cementing operations.  
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May 15, 2025
Global oil demand growth will slow during the remainder of 2025 after a robust first quarter due to “economic headwinds,” the International Energy Agency said. The IEA also downgraded the outlook for U.S. shale oil production due to lower crude prices.
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May 07, 2025
In keeping with the overall themes raised on day one of OTC 2025, Weatherford CEO Girish Saligram discussed some of the major challenges facing the offshore industry as a whole in an executive dialogue panel on Monday. 
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May 05, 2025
(WO) – Day one of OTC 2025 kicked off Monday, May 5, in Houston, Texas.  Offshore innovations and industry priorities in the current economic and geopolitical climate led much of the discussion on day one, exemplified in a panel on electrification.
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April 2025
As a component in the upstream value chain, production seemingly has been the last sector to see its problems solved through encompassing solutions, but that reality is changing.   
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April 25, 2025
According to a new report from Enverus Intelligence Research, upstream M&A opened 2025 with $17 billion in deal value, the second-best start to a year since 2018. However, activity was disproportionately driven by one company, Diamondback Energy.
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