Gerald Verbeek

President Verbeek Management Services

Gerald Verbeek, SPE, is president of Verbeek Management Services. He has served as the technical paper editor for Oil and Gas Facilities since 2013. He previously served as the executive editor of the SPE Projects, Facilities and Construction journal.

Production

Preparing Facilities Engineers for 2022

This selection of papers will familiarize facilities engineers with a variety of topics so they are more prepared for what 2022 may bring.

January 26, 2022 • Gerald Verbeek • Oil and Gas Facilities
Decommissioning

Facility Decommissioning: New Approaches to Planning, Engaging Stakeholders, and Pipelines

These four technical papers provide an overview of how facility decommissioning is addressed these days, including a case study in east Asia and a discussion of what to do with pipelines, flowlines, and umbilicals to preserve the environment—should they stay, or should they go?

October 4, 2021 • Gerald Verbeek • Oil and Gas Facilities
Safety

Safety and Health in Our Professional and Personal Lives

At a time when the world is dealing with the COVID-19 virus, it is a safe assumption that we are frequently thinking about our health. This selection of technical papers highlights the topic as addressed at the 2020 SPE Virtual International Conference on Health, Safety, Environment, and Sustainability.

August 8, 2021 • Gerald Verbeek • Oil and Gas Facilities
Energy transition

The Transfer of Oil and Gas Facilities Skills to Offshore Wind Energy

Offshore wind energy projects provide appealing options for the application of the skills and knowledge of practitioners involved in the design and fabrication of oil and gas facilities, especially those with offshore experience.

November 23, 2020 • Gerald Verbeek • Oil and Gas Facilities
Environment

Engineering for a Greener Oil and Gas Industry

If we must reduce emissions to make our industry “greener,” what are some of the options that we can apply?

June 30, 2020 • Gerald Verbeek • Oil and Gas Facilities
Digital oilfield

Artificial Intelligence Gains Traction Across the Industry

Artificial intelligence is already part of the work done in an office near you, and, before you know it, it will be in your office as well. Gaining familiarity and an understanding of it will serve you well.

May 4, 2020 • Gerald Verbeek • Oil and Gas Facilities
Artificial lift

Deeper, Longer: The Olympics of Offshore Tiebacks

The motto of the Olympic Games is “Citius, Altius, Fortius,” Latin for “faster, higher, stronger,” which emphasizes the concept of pushing the limits. As an engineer, that approach really speaks to me—and offshore installations, and especially offshore tiebacks, illustrate that concept very well.

February 11, 2020 • Gerald Verbeek • Oil and Gas Facilities
Human resources

My Picks for Read and Learn: The Role of Culture, Choices, Human Factors, and Fatigue in Safety

Safety depends on developing a dedicated culture mind-set and mitigation of risks, from the planning and engineering phases to the work site. These papers selected by OGF technical paper editor Gerald Verbeek present various practices for reducing and eliminating the number of incidents.

April 21, 2019 • Gerald Verbeek • Oil and Gas Facilities
Emission management

JPT Technology Minute: Select Technical Papers on Flaring and Emissions Challenges

Flaring and emissions challenges have recently made news headlines around the world. The goal of this article is to engage you with this important topic by presenting a selection of recent SPE papers which address these challenges through various approaches.

March 20, 2019 • Gerald Verbeek • Journal of Petroleum Technology
Water management

Case Studies in Produced Water Treatment

Three papers selected from 2018 SPE ATCE look at the challenges and approaches to the treatment of increasing volumes of produced water.

February 13, 2019 • Gerald Verbeek • Oil and Gas Facilities

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