magazine

Hart Energy doesn’t operate in retail, so
it’s not involved in gas stations. The company’s
service extends as far as the refining
area, or the local distribution for natural
gas. In other words, Hart Energy follows
the value chain across all of the oil and gas
industry and liquid transportation fuels.
Although the company is worldwide,
following developments across the globe,
it has a heavy focus in North America.
Hart Energy’s print products are primarily
United States- and Canada-based, though
its digital offerings go all around the world.
The digital media segment of Hart
Energy produces premium, members-only
and site licensed websites, as well as specialized
e-newsletters, and sponsored and
pay-per-view webinars, podcasts and white
papers.
The company’s website, www.ugcenter.com,
is targeted toward those involved
in the markets for unconventional crude
oil, natural gas and associated liquids,
while www.oilandgasinvestor.com and
www.a-dcenter.com focus on energy investors.
The E&P Buzz e-newsletter and
www.epmag.com offer exploration and
production content, and The Hart Store,
www.store.hartenergy.com, is a transaction
site offering directories, maps, playbooks,
“As a real vibrant and vital
part of the oil patch, we’ve
always followed activities in
North Dakota...
transcripts/tapes of Hart Energy conferences,
and multi-client research reports.
To produce all of this content, Hart
Energy employs about 170 employees
worldwide. Although most operate out
of the Houston office, Williams says the
company has a long-time interest in the
activity happening in the northernmost
areas of the United States.
“We’ve always followed activities in
the Williston Basin,” she says. “In fact,
the very first issue of Oil and Gas Investor,
which is our flagship magazine, was in
1981 and it featured the Williston Basin
as the cover story, so we’ve always followed
the activity in North Dakota. Our
editor-in-chief, Leslie Haines, was a resident
of Williston, ND for a couple years
back in the 1980s, so we’ve had a long and
familiar association with it.”
Williams says she and other editors in
the company have been writing and reporting
on the Bakken formation since its
earliest days.
“As a real vibrant and vital part of the
oil patch, we’ve always followed activities
in North Dakota and been very interested
in reporting on it for various magazines,
websites and newsletter products, so we
provide that editorial coverage,” she says.
“We have sent editors up at various times
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