Can OPEC Re-Balance the Oil Market?

The oil market has seen its share of volatility over the past several weeks, as uncertainty continues over the looming OPEC meeting on November 30. The meeting, set to take place in Vienna, is widely viewed as a critical step in reviving flagging oil prices and reassuring wavering traders. In the face of lingering questions…

The Complicated Relationship of Native Americans and Oil

Today professionals in the oil and gas industry often find their business proposals sparking intense debates within Native American tribes. Although tribal governments may welcome the additional revenues and jobs productive wells and pipelines bring, many Native Americans harbor lingering concerns about permanent impacts upon pristine landscapes. Those concerns are only bolstered by environmental groups…

Oil Transportation

The Pros and Cons of Oil Transportation

The oil industry is essential to global energy production, supplying fuel to a number of industries including refineries and power plants. However, transporting crude oil from extraction sites to refineries, storage facilities, and ports presents logistical and environmental challenges. This guide explores the oil and gas transportation market, highlighting key methods—pipelines, rail, tankers, and trucks—and…

The Bust of Boomtown, USA

In the rolling, muted prairies that surround the town of Williston, North Dakota, the signs of decline are impossible to miss. Cranes, dozers and all manner of heavy machinery sit idle. Massive oil rigs stand all but abandoned, looming over the landscape like towering memorials to a bygone age. In town, businesses that sprang up…

Midland, TX – A Community Governed by Oil

A multitude of boom towns litters the landscape of Texas, tracing the rising and falling fortunes of the ranching and oil industries upon which so much of the state was built. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the vast Permian Basin, a geological feature that encompasses much of West Texas and contains the second-largest…

Optimism in the Bakken Dickinson N. D.

Optimism in the Bakken Dickinson N. D. A great hometown welcome from the business community of Dickinson N. D. was extended to exhibitors and patrons for the 2015 Bakken Oil Products and Service Show this year. Despite the declining oil prices, many successful Bakken companies came to present the latest in oilfield technology and services.…