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Reducing the complexity and controlling the cost of major offshore projects are together one of the biggest challenges facing the oil and gas industry.

The opening of Mexico’s oil and gas sector was a landmark moment in the industry, but despite the potential upside, the uncertainty and risk surrounding unfamiliar offshore territory in a volatile price market kept many potential investors at bay.

Petroleum industry professionals reported an average calculated total compensation of USD 185,001 in 2016, less than reported in previous years, according to the latest annual SPE Salary Survey.

Kashagan crude reached the global markets. The world’s most expensive upstream project restarted production and about 195,000 barrels, produced during the startup process, were shipped for export.

The report was written by a steering committee of SMEs with industry input from an SPE summit as well as members from SPE online communities. It is based on discussions and conclusions from the summit and is intended to provide guidance on an industry-wide safety management data sharing program.

SPE members Jenny Cronlund, Flavia Mara Guzman Villarroel, and Abhijeet Kulkarni were nominated by SPE for the 2013 New Faces of Engineering Award sponsored by the National Engineers Week Foundation. Kulkarni was selected as the 2013 winner and appeared in a USA Today advertisement along with 12 additional winners from participating organizations. SPE’s Energy4me Prog…

In this column, Howard Duhon provides a book report on Nancy Leveson’s "Engineering a Safer World."

Experience has revealed that frictional pressure loss in the wellbore hinders the full use of the entire length of the horizontal well. This paper presents a new approach to maximize the use of the full length of long horizontal drainholes.

This study compares the performance of openhole-packer completion systems with that of cemented-liner completion systems in the northern Montney gas resource play.

In horizontal and extended-reach wells in which long completions are run into highly deviated or lateral zones, large compression loads arise because of running friction.