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Last year saw continued contraction in the seismic data-acquisition industry. With this drop in acquisition business, fewer seismic data-acquisition papers were published. Nevertheless, three very good SPE papers covering important acquisition and processing topics are featured here.

While the visual element is key, the core strategic component of data visualization is the ability to unlock the story in the data.

Instinctively, we feel that greater accuracy is better and all else should be subjected to this overriding goal. This is not so. While there are a few tasks for which a change in the second decimal place in accuracy might actually matter, for most tasks, this improvement will be irrelevant.

The ecosystem in which an algorithm must live in order to deliver value must be viewed as a whole. The algorithm can be viewed like a car’s engine. It’s rather important, but it’s not a car yet.

Digitalization leads oil and gas research and development investment priorities, according to DNV’s 2019 annual outlook.

The discovery is world’s third-largest natural gas discovery in the past 2 years.

This paper presents the findings of a research project and the content of IPIECA’s “Practitioner Note on Monitoring and Evaluation of Social Investment,” which focus on the challenges faced by companies considering an increase in stakeholder demand for evidence-based reporting of social investment.

McDermott International announced a “large” contract award from Saudi Aramco for the engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) services in the Marjan field offshore Saudi Arabia. The contract calls for the upgrade of two existing platforms related to the installation of associated equipment for electrical submersible pumps, as well as space for a…

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has awarded South Korea’s SK Engineering and Construction Company a contract to build what it calls the largest underground project ever for oil storage. Under the terms of the deal, SKEC will construct three underground storage caverns in the Emirate of Fujairah on the eastern coast of the United Arab Emirates. Each cavern w…

Rui Vasco Sitoe, associate professor in the petroleum engineering department at the Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM) in Maputo, Mozambique died 23 February. He was the primary faculty member for the drilling discipline. Sitoe was one of the founders and coordinators of the master’s of science in petroleum engineering program (MSPE) at UEM, the first of its type in …