Conference

BP plc and its worldwide team of experts had been preparing for a lot of good fun at this year’s annual Offshore Technology Conference (OTC), which kicked off Monday in Houston.

Sempra Energy expects annual capital expenditures and investments to average approximately $2.9 billion through 2014, up from about $2.4 billion annually during the previous five years, CEO Donald E. Felsinger said Thursday.

Sempra Energy expects annual capital expenditures and investments to average approximately $2.9 billion through 2014, up from about $2.4 billion annually during the previous five years, CEO Donald E. Felsinger said Thursday.

Higher average natural gas prices in 2010 will more than offset falling production for Canada’s natural gas producers, according to The Conference Board of Canada’s latest report.

Higher average natural gas prices in 2010 will more than offset falling production for Canada’s natural gas producers, according to The Conference Board of Canada’s latest report.

A Federal Energy Regulatory Commission conference, scheduled for Dec. 2, will focus on waste heat recovery efforts and other efficiency measures in the natural gas industry. It will run from 9 a.m. to noon. A free webcast of the event will be available on www.ferc.gov.

U.S. drilling activity has bottomed out and will begin to expand “very slowly” in 2010, the CEO of Baker Hughes Inc. (BHI) said Wednesday.

Energy professionals may be holding on to the more traditional ways of collaborating with employees through face-to-face meetings, e-mail and conference calls, but a growing number think that some of the Internet’s social media and networking sites could improve the workplace, a survey has found.

Rapid City, SD-based Black Hills Corp. CEO David Emery Thursday told financial analysts on a conference call that the energy holding company is in “excellent financial shape,” and it has no significant exposure to the current Wall Street capital crisis.