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Advances made in horizontal and complex-trajectory wells demonstrate that, despite this historic downturn, the industry has kept innovating and optimizing to bring more-efficient solutions to the table.

Increased fossil fuel use correlates strongly with increased standard of living, wealth, life expectancy, and food availability. Why are we so negative about something that has done so much good for so many people?

Subsea tieback of a new field to an existing offshore production facility is one option to minimize development costs.

SPE presidents are asked a lot of questions, and I suppose that’s true of anyone who stands in front of an audience as an authority figure. But my favorite question is: What’s the Next Big Thing?

Lessons learned in debottlenecking a “dirty” triethylene glycol contactor at the ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company’s LaBarge Black Canyon Facility in Wyoming highlight the results of work performed between 2001 and 2004.

BP appointed Nils Andersen as a nonexecutive director of its board of directors. Andersen previously served as group chief executive of A.P. Møller-Mærsk from 2007 to 2016. From 1999 to 2007, he worked for Carlsberg and Carlsberg Breweries, first as executive vice president and then as president and chief executive officer. He is a nonexecutive director at Unilever, w…

The US shale sector has proudly touted the fact that it has helped reduce the nation’s carbon dioxide output to an 18-year low by producing the natural gas that is displacing coal use in power generation. But government regulators appear to want even more.

Michael Lyle Payne, SPE, died 9 September 2016. He was 56. Payne had more than 30 years of experience in the industry, including in drilling operations, computing, research, and consulting. He was recognized with the SPE Drilling Engineering Award in 2000. Payne was a segment engineering technical authority at BP and previously held positions at the company leading up…

SPE created the A Peer Apart program to recognize dedicated individuals who have been involved in the peer review of 100 or more papers. This year, six individuals join the elite group, bringing the total membership of A Peer Apart to 149 dedicated members.

Ashtead Technology named Graeme Booth as a regional technical support leader. In this role, Booth will provide customers with technical support covering equipment rentals and customer engineered packages for survey and remotely operated vehicle operations. Booth has spent more than 25 years in the subsea industry. He joined Ashtead from Subsea 7, where he held a numbe…