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In the Spotlight
Hart Energy:
Focusing on the
Global Energy Industry
By Kim Babij-Gesell
At the beginning of April this
year, more than 2,000 professionals
from the oil and gas industry
will descend upon the
Colorado Convention Centre
in Denver for the 2014 DUG Bakken and
Niobrara conference.
The organizer of the conference, Hart
Energy, expects it to be the biggest gathering
of its kind.
“We are very proud of what we’re doing
in this area. These DUG conferences are
the largest unconventional resource events
in the world. I think last year, in total, we
had somewhere around 20,000 attendees at
our various DUG conferences,” says Peggy
Williams, Hart Energy’s editorial director
and a certified petroleum geologist.
Hart Energy is an international publishing,
information and consulting company
focusing on the global energy industry.
Based in Houston, TX, Hart Energy
has offices in Bogota, Brussels, Sao Paulo,
Singapore, and closer to home, in Denver,
Houston, New York, San Diego and Washington,
DC.
“We have quite a few different lines
of business,” explains Williams. “We do
magazines, newsletters, directories, websites,
research and consulting. We are a
business-to-business information company,
so we’re talking to predominantly people in
the oil and gas industry and people on the
financial investment side of the business.”
For nearly 35 years, the company
has serviced oil and gas producers, midstream
operators and refiners, as well as
The exhibit floor at the DUG Bakken and Niobrara conference.
professionals in the the engineering and
automotive industries, utilities, leading
NGOs, and the world’s major governments.
“We’re very much an oil industry
company. We also have bio-fuels and alternative
fuels, so we cover all phases of
transportation fuels. We have upstream,
midstream and downstream products. So,
we’re following the oil and gas modules
for transportation fuels, from the very
beginning of drilling exploratory wells or
shooting seismic, to big field development,
to sales, to transport through the various
pipelines, railroads, barges and ships, to
the end point, where it gets picked up by
the utility or a refiner,” says Williams.
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