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This paper presents results from a nondestructive core-strength-index tester that is less destructive than the Schmidt hammer and less intrusive, easier, faster, and less expensive than the core scratch tester.

John M. Campbell Sr., an internationally renowned expert in the petroleum industry who served as chairman of the University of Oklahoma’s School of Petroleum Engineering, died 24 August 2013, at his home in Norman, Oklahoma, after a brief illness. He was 91.

To help create public awareness and promote education around a key challenge in the industry, SPE launched a new website devoted to factual, transparent information about hydraulic fracturing.

SPE is now accepting nominations for the 2015 Board of Directors. The deadline for 2016 presidential nominations is 1 December 2013. The deadline for At-Large, Regional and Technical Director nominations is 15 December 2013. Please visit http://www.spe.org/about/nominate.php to complete the online nomination form.

This month's papers cover development choices for an offshore field, cost-estimating errors when planning compressor stations, and the engineering aspects of smart fields.

Ken Arnold points out how easily we can all behave unethically from time to time and describes a number of ethical dilemmas.

A discussion of mature oil fields focusing on preventing decline.

The first of a two-part discussion of how ethics and integrity matter in the workplace.

Facilities sand management is tasked with the goal of ensuring sustained hydrocarbon production when particulate solids are present in well fluids, while minimizing the impact of the produced solids on surface equipment. How to do that?

Unconventional resources are often in good supply, but difficult and expensive to develop. To develop unconventional resources, technologies like hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling are key, and higher oil prices will help.