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The technical directors’ special session at SPE’s Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition presented challenges on the E&P frontier in an industry grinding through a period of deep cost reductions.

R&D may be the key to the survival of companies as the new economics of the industry take hold.

SPE’s first president from Canada will take office this week.

Petroleum production, led by Statoil, has made Norway one of the richest countries in the world. But Norwegians are now increasingly questioning whether it makes financial or moral sense to invest in more exploration and output as energy sources such as solar and wind become cheaper.

ExxonMobil continues to make major oil discoveries offshore Guyana, a country that today produces no oil. The just-announced Turbot-1 well is the company’s fifth discovery in Guyana’s waters in a little more than 2 years.

ATCE continues Tuesday in San Antonio with the conference theme at the forefront–Looking Back to Move Forward. Here is what you can experience at the Annual Banquet and other events happening Tuesday.

The R&D Technical Section dinner at ATCE drew varying perspectives as the panelists discussed, and sometimes debated, a range of approaches to safeguarding industry viability and growth in the years ahead.

Money is the root all of startups, but getting it and making more of it depends on dealing with demanding people.

Even as the oil and gas industry looks for the next great idea to propel it forward, it should constantly reconsider past innovations for inspiration, the CEO of a major operator said Monday on the opening day of 2017 SPE ATCE.

SPE’s annual meeting opened Monday morning with a look at the economic and environmental sustainability of the oil and gas industry.