The Oil & Gas Value Chain: Oil Sands (2026) Alberta’s oil sands are the third way the world produces oil, and the strangest one: no exploration risk to take, no decline curve to outrun, and a barrel so viscous it cannot enter a pipeline without help. This guide is … Published Sep 19, 2026 · 42 min read · Oil and GasUpstreamGuide
The Oil & Gas Value Chain, Part 4: Oilfield Services (2026) Every barrel that Part 1 of this series produces, Part 2 moves and Part 3 refines came out of a well drilled on a rig somebody else owns, lined with pipe somebody else rolled and fractured by a pump fleet somebody else … Published Sep 15, 2026 · 58 min read · Oil and GasOilfield ServicesGuide
The Oil & Gas Value Chain, Part 1: Upstream (2026) Every barrel of crude and every cubic foot of gas the world burns begins in the same place: a hole in the ground, drilled on a geologist’s bet, into a rock that has held hydrocarbons for tens of millions of years. … Published Aug 26, 2026 · 132 min read · Oil and GasUpstreamGuide
The Oil & Gas Value Chain: World Oil & Gas Basins (2026) Every exploration-and-production (E&P) company you can buy is, underneath the ticker, a portfolio of acreage in oil and gas basins — and the basin decides almost everything that matters: whether the barrels come out as … Published Aug 21, 2026 · 79 min read · Oil and GasUpstreamGuide
The Oil & Gas Value Chain, Part 3: Downstream (2026) Every gallon of gasoline, every tank of jet fuel and most of the plastic in the room around you began as a barrel of crude that was useless until a refinery took it apart and put it back together. Downstream is the last … Published Aug 18, 2026 · 91 min read · Oil and GasDownstreamGuide
The Oil & Gas Value Chain, Part 2: Midstream (2026) Every barrel and every cubic foot the world consumes passes through a machine almost nobody looks at: three million miles of American pipe, a few hundred processing plants, a handful of salt caverns and a fleet of … Published Jul 30, 2026 · 83 min read · Oil and GasMidstreamGuide
The Oil & Gas Value Chain: Oil Sands (2026) Alberta’s oil sands are the third way the world produces oil, and the strangest one: no exploration risk to take, no decline curve to outrun, and a barrel so viscous it cannot enter a pipeline without help. This guide is … Published Sep 19, 2026 · 42 min read · Oil and GasUpstreamGuide
The Oil & Gas Value Chain, Part 4: Oilfield Services (2026) Every barrel that Part 1 of this series produces, Part 2 moves and Part 3 refines came out of a well drilled on a rig somebody else owns, lined with pipe somebody else rolled and fractured by a pump fleet somebody else … Published Sep 15, 2026 · 58 min read · Oil and GasOilfield ServicesGuide
The Oil & Gas Value Chain, Part 1: Upstream (2026) Every barrel of crude and every cubic foot of gas the world burns begins in the same place: a hole in the ground, drilled on a geologist’s bet, into a rock that has held hydrocarbons for tens of millions of years. … Published Aug 26, 2026 · 132 min read · Oil and GasUpstreamGuide
The Oil & Gas Value Chain: World Oil & Gas Basins (2026) Every exploration-and-production (E&P) company you can buy is, underneath the ticker, a portfolio of acreage in oil and gas basins — and the basin decides almost everything that matters: whether the barrels come out as … Published Aug 21, 2026 · 79 min read · Oil and GasUpstreamGuide
The Oil & Gas Value Chain, Part 3: Downstream (2026) Every gallon of gasoline, every tank of jet fuel and most of the plastic in the room around you began as a barrel of crude that was useless until a refinery took it apart and put it back together. Downstream is the last … Published Aug 18, 2026 · 91 min read · Oil and GasDownstreamGuide
The Oil & Gas Value Chain, Part 2: Midstream (2026) Every barrel and every cubic foot the world consumes passes through a machine almost nobody looks at: three million miles of American pipe, a few hundred processing plants, a handful of salt caverns and a fleet of … Published Jul 30, 2026 · 83 min read · Oil and GasMidstreamGuide
