Characterization

Schlumberger CEO: Higher Shale Recovery Rates Equal Big Opportunity

Schlumberger Ltd. CEO Andrew Gould repeated an old adage and added something new to it on Monday, telling an industry audience in New Orleans, “if you want to find oil, you have to drill. And if you want to produce unconventional gases or oils, it is even truer.”

March 31, 2011

Platts Rebuts Wood’s Criticism of Price Indexes

Objecting to FERC Chairman Pat Wood’s characterization of current natural gas price surveys as “primitive,” Platts, in an open letter to the chairman Tuesday, pointed out that its surveys “are systematic and consistent,” using highly sophisticated electronic price collection and processing.

June 29, 2005