Tank Storage News

NCSD approves repairs to water storage tank, posted on the Santa Maria Times A 1-million-gallon standpipe tank that stores water for Nipomo Community Services District customers will soon be taken out of service for modifications and rehabilitation work. But district officials said the public should see no change in their water service, and NCSD will…

Arctic Oil & Gas News

Statoil Boosts Arctic Holdings with Greenland License by James Stafford, posted on OilPrice.com Norway’s Statoil has been awarded a frontier exploration license for Block 6 offshore north-east Greenland, in the Arctic Ocean, with partners ConocoPhillips and Nunaoil. Statoil is seeking to position itself long-term in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions, and some estimates hold Greenland’s…

Shale News

Shale gas innovation competition deadline Feb. 1 by Paul J. Gough, posted on the Pittsburgh Business Times The deadline for the Shale Gas Innovation Competition is Feb. 1, with prizes totalling $100,000 going to the four winners of this year’s contest. The annual contest is open to small businesses, entrepreneurs and researchers from either Pennsylvania…

Tank Storage News

Industrialists laud water storage tank in Pulwama, posted on News Track India Industrialists and residents in Pulwama District have praised the state government for beginning to construct an overhead water storage tank to resolve the problem of acute water scarcity. The water tank with the capacity of two lakh gallons is expected to solve 90…

Arctic Oil & Gas News

Japanese energy firms to explore for oil in Arctic , posted on Kuwait News Agency Major Japanese energy developers will participate in an oil exploration project in the Arctic for the first time, a leading business daily here reported Monday. Japan’s largest oil explorer Inpex Corp. and the upstream subsidiary of the country’s top oil…

Shale News

Dominion connects shale gas to consumers, posted on Farm and Dairy Dominion, one of the nation’s largest energy companies, has contracted to deliver 500,000 dekatherms per day of natural gas produced in West Virginia to various interconnections with pipelines in Ohio, as producers look westward to seek new markets for Marcellus production. The company also…

Arctic Oil & Gas Industry News

Shell’s Berlin ‘Science Slam’ Event Reportedly Disrupted By Anti-Drilling Activists, posted on Huffington Post Green Judges were unaware that they were about to receive quite the literal slam at Shell’s recent “Science Slam,” an event in Berlin, Germany on December 11 for young scientists to showcase their projects and research. German activist Jean Peters and…

Energy & Resources – Industry News

Canada Oil & Gas Report Q1 2014: New research report available at Fast Market Research, posted on USPRWire Increasingly challenging economics could slow the growth of oil-sands driven production, although we note that liquids-rich shales could be the new engine of liquid output growth. Exploration in the country’s offshore acreage and unconventional resources could unearth…

Shale News

Special Fracking Update (December 2013) by John Georgakopoulos, posted on Mondaq The National Energy Board (NEB) wants detailed information from energy companies in order to assess “the unique aspects” of future hydraulic fracturing activities in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. The Filing Requirements for Onshore Drilling Operations Involving Hydraulic Fracturing (NE23-175/2013E) sets out the information…

Supply Chain Industry News

Creating value across the supply chain by M Muneer, posted on the Financial Chronicle Price competition has become intense today with hardly any meaningful differentiation in product or service offerings. While supplying to a customer, the buying department exerts so much pressure on you that you will just want to make a sale and forget…