Halliburton Company is one of the world's largest providers of products and services to the energy industry. The company has 55,000 employees, representing 140 nationalities in more than 80 countries, serves oil and natural gas companies throughout the world and operates under two divisions, the Completion and Production segment and the Drilling and Evaluation segment. Completion and Production delivers...

Sasol is an international chemicals and energy company that produces and markets chemical and energy products. The major part of their operations is located in South Africa. The Company operates a number of plants and facilities for the manufacture, storage, processing and transportation of chemical feedstock, products and wastes. Sasol has three main business units: Mining, Exploration and Production International, and the Strategic...

Despite the obvious oversupply of oil on world markets, it is too early to talk about excluding this resource from the things that define the modern energy. The share of oil in global primary consumption exceeds 30%, and a significant change in this ratio in the next two decades is unlikely to be expected. Moreover, a decrease in investments in geological exploration on the one hand and an increase in the share of hard-to-recover oil...

Imperial Oil Limited is one of Canada’s largest integrated oil companies. It is occupied with the production and sale of crude oil and natural gas. In Canada, it is a major producer of crude oil and petrochemicals, the largest petroleum refiner and a leading marketer of petroleum products. The company has three main segments: Upstream, Downstream and Chemical. Upstream operations stand for the exploration for and production of crude...

Key indicators of patenting activity in the field of unconventional gas production in 2018 are considered in the present review. For this purpose, slightly more than 500 patent applications registered in patent offices around the world and related to main sectors of unconventional gas production, including associated petroleum gas (APG), coal bed methane (CBM) and methane hydrates (GHD) were collected from generally-accessible sources....

About 500 patent applications were collected in total for the analysis of patent activity of main applicants in 2018 in the field of unconventional gas production, of which 279 relate to methane production from hydrates (GHD), 12 – to coal bed methane (CBM), and the remainder 94 – to associated petroleum gas (APG). All of the applications were found in generally-accessible patent sources by examining the texts of inventions. The main...

The present review contains data on 723 patent applications that were collected as of the date of this publication for the inventions registered in 2018 by 252 applicants from 25 countries in 29 patent offices around the world in the field related to the production of synthetic fuels (synthesis gas and its derivatives, liquid hydrocarbons via Fischer-Tropsch synthesis, direct coal liquefaction, etc.). About 88% of patent applications...

The 2019 edition of the annual World Oil Outlook (WOO-2019) published by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) looks at trends in the global economy and energy developments with a particular emphasis on oil supply and demand. This concerns upstream and downstream sectors, latest technology advances, policy and environment developments. Various indicators analysed in the report (GDP growth, the global population,...

The proposed review analyses the inventive activity of the major participants who registered their patent applications in 2018 in the field related to the production of synthetic fuel (synthesis gas, liquid fuel from synthesis gas, methanol and its derivatives, direct coal liquefaction, etc.). In total, 723 patent applications accepted for detailed analysis by 29 patent offices around the world and prepared by 252 applicants from 25...

The proposed review provides statistical data on patent applications registered in patent offices around the world in 2018, and related to the subject of hydrocarbon production from low permeability reservoirs, mainly to horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. In total, the patent search resulted in 2364 patent applications published in 28 offices around the world and filed by 534 applicants from 22 countries. In 2018 American...