Natural Gas Represents More than Half of Nation’s Total Generation Capacity Growth of 4,350 MW in 1H 2014; Coal Adds Zero Capacity The U.S. Energy Information Administration reported yesterday that in the first half of 2014 solar plants added electric power generation capacity of 1,150 MW – 70% above the new solar capacity added in the first half of 2013.
Hein & Associates has been named to INSIDE Public Accounting’s (IPA) Best of the Best firms list for 2014, marking the fifth time in the last six years Hein has been awarded such an honor. The 2014 Best of the Best recognition evaluated more than 70 criteria from 540 firms, with only 50 being named to the exclusive list. “The
Production in the Permian is at an all-time high, but its prices per barrel are a different story. Spot prices at the Permian’s main hub in Midland, Texas, are trending among three-year lows. Its differential on August 25, 2014, was roughly $8 below the West Texas Intermediate (WTI) price and approximately $17 below the Brent spot price. The growing differential
Petroleum Engineers Enjoy Highest Projected Salary Growth: ABC News Last week ABC News reported that chemical engineer and mechanical engineer are two of the degrees college students can seek that can lead to jobs as petroleum engineers, a career with an average salary of $130,280. Petroleum engineers do not only currently enjoy generous pay rates, but ABC reports that the
A total of 117 companies from global industry leaders including Royal Dutch Shell (ticker: RBS.A), Halliburton (ticker: HAL) and Petrobras (ticker: PBR), to dozens of E&Ps including Range Resources (ticker: RRC), WPX Energy (ticker: WPX), Cabot Oil & Gas (ticker: COG) and Oasis Petroleum (ticker: OAS), to a select group of privately-held companies like D-J Resources and Fifth Creek Energy,
The Oil & Gas Conference® 19 forum offers investment professionals the opportunity to listen to the world’s key senior management teams present their growth plans, and provides industry professionals a venue to learn about important energy topics affecting the global oil and gas industry. EnerCom, Inc. gathered questions posed to management teams of the companies below during their respective breakout
CNN reported today on the ISIS takeover of sections of Iraq and Syria and the potential outcome of further oil sales by the barbaric terrorist group that has reportedly beheaded children in its captured territories. “ISIS control just a few marginal fields in Iraq’s north, but they are enough to fund the terrorist group’s self-sufficiency,” CNN reported. “A month ago, the ISIS–controlled
Completion Engineer replaces Geophysicist for top slot The Colorado School of Mines has roughly 740 total petroleum engineering students enrolled today, about 190 of whom are slated for graduation in 2015. “Petroleum is driving our enrollment,” Colorado School of Mines Department of Petroleum Engineering’s Interim Department Head, Dr. William W. Fleckenstein, told Oil & Gas 360® at EnerCom’s The Oil
The Oil & Gas Conference® 19 forum offers investment professionals the opportunity to listen to the world’s key senior management teams present their growth plans, and provides industry professionals a venue to learn about important energy topics affecting the global oil and gas industry. EnerCom, Inc. gathered questions posed to management teams of the companies below during their respective breakout
A few themes are emerging as companies present their stories at EnerCom’s The Oil & Gas Conference 19® in Denver this week. There is no question all the E&P companies are focused on finding, testing and developing the best science and technologies the industry has to offer when it comes to well completion techniques and fracture stimulation variation. Slick water,
After a full morning of investor presentations by leading oil and gas companies including Range Resources (ticker: RRC), Core Laboratories (ticker: CLB) and Whiting Petroleum (ticker: WLL), Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper took the stage during a surprise visit to EnerCom’s 19th Oil & Gas Conference today. The governor pointed out that “unemployment in Colorado is down to 5.3% to pre
Phil Rykhoek, President & CEO of Denbury Resources Inc. (NYSE:DNR), discusses the oil industry with Jim Cramer of CNBC’s Mad Money
