Top Holes - Learn more about drilling the top portion of a Chukchi Sea e...

Wells, like houses, begin with a foundation. In the Arctic, the foundational well -- also called a top hole - starts with a 20-by-40 foot area excavated into the seafloor called the mud-line cellar. This hole is an insurance measure to protect the blowout preventer (BOP) from the risk of damage by any large, unseasonal ice floes. During the majority of the season, the wells Shell plans to drill are in ice-free waters. However, right at the end of the season, ice will begin to re-form near the prospects and the mud-line cellar provides an extra level of protection against any ice floes that could reach to the sea floor.

Learn more about Shell in Alaska at www.shell.us/alaska.

Financing Solar Power Projects with Jeannot Boussougouth

What are the intricacies, pitfalls and opportunities with financing renewable energy projects such as Solar Power in Africa?

UK PLC's Access to Oil and Gas Infrastructure (August 2012)

What are the broad issues; especially pertaining to the role of the UK Government in ensuring access to oil and gas infrastructure for the North Sea/ UKCS?

UK PLC's Access to Oil and Gas Infrastructure: Jonathan Roger, Centrica Energy

5 to 11 billion possible, probable barrels of oil equivalent is the prize in the North Sea. How do we maximize existing infrastructure before production decline and rising costs?

UK PLC's Access to Oil and Gas Infrastructure: Nigel Wooley, BP

What are the technical, commercial challenges as well as intricacies of the access negotiation process?

UK PLC's Access to Oil and Gas Infrastructure: Mark Hughes, RWE Dea UK

What is the future of asset integrity and resources in the North Sea Basin?

Tackling climate change: Carbon capture and storage

CCS is a proven technology that could help mitigate climate change, but at a steep cost. A new test facility in Norway is working to make it financially viable. How long will this take? It currently costs more to let the carbon into the air than into the ground. 

More important, will this (and many others like it) significantly halt climate change?

AUSTRALIA: Carbon Floor Price versus Federal Budget

Does it make sense to scrap the carbon floor price and link to the European model? How does this impact the Federal Budget?

Australia's Coal Gate: Undermining Mining rights?

South Asia correspondent Michael Edwards speaks to Professor Arun Kumar from Jawaharlal University about an auditors report, which found that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's government cost taxpayers billions of dollars in revenue by selling coal mining rights at a fraction of their market value.

What are the implications of selling any sort of resource mining rights sub-par value? Let us discuss

UK PLC's Access to Oil and Gas Infrastructure: Oonagh Werngren, GDF SUEZ

Access to Oil & Gas Infrastructure is a huge challenge to maximizing the resources from the North Sea and UK PLC has a plan to do so. What are the challenges and implications?

TOP NEWS PICK : AUGUST 28, 2012

Developments in International Oil & Gas | Energy | Extractive Industries

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Chevron hits new Brazil legal setback 

A Brazilian appeals panel on Tuesday declined to overturn a lower court order barring Chevron and Transocean from operating in the country in the wake of an oil spill last year | Upstream Online

NNPC, South African investors pledge to rehabilitate petroleum infrastructure 

28 August 2018, Sweetcrude, Abuja -Sequel to the visit by the South African High Commissioner, Kingsley Mamabolo last week seeking for economic ties with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, in the oil and gas sector, a business delegation from the Country has expressed its readiness to collaborate with the Corporation to bring on board cutting edge technology to help rehabilitate the oil and gas pipelines in the country | SweetCrude 

Orient refinery ready in 12 months 

28 August 2012, Sweetcrude, AWKA – THE management of Orient Petroleum Resources Plc, OPR, said on Monday that its refinery, which would be sited at Nsugbe-Umuleri in Anambra State, would to be completed in the next 12 months | SweetCrude

Manitoba pledges to work with existing

Chevron Finance M.B.A. Program Develops Talent

Ok, so how does one get in- you might ask? 

Meet a few of the people in Chevron's Finance M.B.A. Development Program. This two-year rotational leadership program offers select graduates from top-tier business schools the opportunity to springboard their careers with internships, international rotations and other practical and relevant work experience.

Mitt Romney Energy Plan Robs Taxpayers?

"After raising nearly $10 million in Texas oil money in two days, Mitt Romney announces an energy plan on the Texas-New Mexico border later today that includes billions of dollars in giveaways to industry contributors. Romney will call for extensive expansion of oil and gas drilling -- including along the coasts of Virginia and the Carolinas -- and eliminating most federal safety and environmental standards that govern the development of energy resources on our public lands...".* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

Do you agree with this assessment? What are the strengths and weaknesses in the Romney Energy plan for the U.S.?

AUSTRALIA: Mining investment worth 30 billion dollars shelved

New doubts are being cast over the lifeline of the Australian economy. After BHP Billiton's decision to shelve 30 billion dollars worth of investment at South Australia's Olympic dam the Resources Minister has declared the mining boom "over".

Is the mining boom really over?

Venezuela Amuay refinery inferno as deadly blast hits plant (Video)

This past week we focused on Oil and Gas facility security and protection. This is one example of what could happen when systems fail. What caused this though?

Romney: US Energy Independence Is Achievable

Is North American Energy Independence achievable by 2020?

Oil and Gas Security Solutions

What kind of security solutions are you depending on?

Mining boom has 'a long way to run': Wong

Finance Minister Penny Wong has poured cold water on Resources Minister Martin Ferguson's claim that the mining boom is 'over'.

Resource revenues, when utilized to maximum economic benefit to the host country, can create less 'worry' about depletion of the 'resource'. 

Has Australia applied its resource revenues appropriately; if so then why  the worry?

Much ado about fuel susidy FG vs NUPENG/Oil Marketers

How much economic benefit will a strike by the National Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas workers in Nigeria achieve for the nation's petroleum industry? How much should be put on the line; who is right and who is wrong on the subsidy fraud matter and the industry regulation in Nigeria?

Global Implications of the US Oil and Gas Renaisssance

Maria van der Hoeven presents recommendations from the International Energy Agency for the responsible regulation of unconventional gas drilling and light-tight oil production.

What scenarios will favour your business and community?