With extensive venture capital and upstream business expertise, Energy Ventures identified Caltec's promising production technology and worked with the company to define its value proposition and revamp its current sales process and pricing model. Read on to learn more about how Energy Ventures' revitalization of Caltec's business model resulted in a successful sale to Petrofac.

Oil and Gas Investor sat down with Energy Ventures partner Jim Sledzik at Summer NAPE 2010 to discuss the firm's efforts to foster emerging technologies in the E&P sector and highlight portfolio companies that are developing innovative solutions to improve unconventional resource development.

In the August issue of E&P, David Jackson of ARKeX discusses how full-tensor gravity gradiometry has been used in the East African Rift System. To read more, click here.

In its D&C Tech Digest column, Drilling Contractor profiles Deep Casing Tools' successful run of its new well reaming system, Turborunner, in the central North Sea, UK, for PetroCanada. To read more, click here.

In its July cover story, American Oil & Gas Reporter features Oxane in a discussion of nanotechnology advances and ways in which they hold tremendous potential promise for upstream applications. To read more, click here.