Energy Ventures was recently featured in an article on the Houston Chronicle's energy blog, FuelFix. Jim Sledzik, partner and president of the Houston office, met with reporter Simone Sebastian to discuss the ripe investment opportunity the company is seeing in Houston. Click here to read the full article.

Produced Water Absorbents was the focus of a recent RigZone article entitled "Absorbent Glass Provides Solution for Flowback Water Treatment". The article reviews how PWA's Osorb technology can be used to help companies recycle flowback water in an effort to improve resource recovery. CEO Stephen Spoonamore also provides an in-depth look into the technology and its numerous applications within the oil and gas value chain. Click here to read the full article.

Fotech Solutions recently introduced a new cutting edge technology which prevents cable theft from railroads. This new technology offers a solution which will help with thousands of lost hours in delays and huge costs due to theft. To view the video, click here .

The growing use of Ingrain's digital rock physics technology, as well as the value of the technology as a whole, was the subject of an article in the latest issue of the Pittsburgh Business Times. The article entitled "Digital rock physics offers shale rock insight at molecular level" describes Ingrain's technology and how digital rock physics is "one of the most exciting emerging technologies in oil and gas development." To read the article in its entirety, please click the link below.

Energy Ventures' Technology Advisory Board member Vik Rao contributed an article to the American Oil & Gas Reporter . Titled “Gas Positioned to Displace Coal Plants," the article discusses how shale gas has changed the game not only for the natural gas industry, but for the power generation sector as well. To read the full article, click here .

A technical paper by Ingrain team members was published in the Society of Exploration Geophysicists' November 11, 2011 issue of Geophysics. The paper, titled "Relevance of Computational Rock Physics," concludes that computational rock physics using modern imaging and computing techniques opens a new avenue to quantify and understand rock. To read the full paper, click on the link below.

The American Oil & Gas Reporter published an article written by ARKeX Vice President, New Ventures Phill Houghton in the November issue of the publication. The article, titled "GGI Reveals Key Insights In Shale Plays," discusses the application of gravity gradient imaging (GGI) in shale gas fields. To read the full article, click on the link below.

ARKeX , provider of geophysical imaging services, completed a BlueQube airborne gravity gradiometry survey in Kenya for Tullow Oil plc. The survey ranks amongst one of the larger airborne Full Tensor Gravity Gradiometer (FTG) surveys flown to date. To read more, click here .

Jim Sledzik, partner and president of Energy Ventures' Houston office, spoke to the Houston Business Journal about the firm's fourth energy fund, capped at $350 million. The firm is looking to get involved with companies that are developing innovative, proprietary technology that benefits the oil and gas industry. Read the full article below.

Digital Energy Journal covered ffA 's launch of a new version of its SVI Pro and SEA 3D Pro 2011.1 software. To read the full article, click here .