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Ali Dogru, SPE, Saudi Aramco Fellow and chief technologist at EXPEC Advanced Research Center, and SPE John Franklin Carll Award winner was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering. Dogru was elected for his outstanding achievements in the “development of high-performance computing in hydrocarbon reservoir simulation.” He is internationally renowned in this fi…

For 300 million years faults showed no activity, and then wastewater injections from oil and gas wells came along.

SPE received a letter from the American Red Cross confirming that the organization has received our $10,000 donation for victims of Mexico earthquakes on 7 and 19 September 2017

Stork has appointed Donald Brown as asset integrity director for the UK, Middle East, and Africa. Brown will oversee a number of the company's product lines and services; quality services including third-party inspection, heat treatment, monitoring solutions, and cathodic protection and integrity engineering. He has held senior leadership roles over the course of thre…

Unit Corporation named Les Austin as its senior vice president and CFO. Austin holds more than 23 years of energy finance and leadership experience, most recently serving as senior vice president and CFO of Cypress Energy Partners. From 2008 to 2011, he was the senior vice president and chief financial officer of Ram Energy Resources, eventually being promoted to COO …

Fracturing reservoirs effectively can be like boxing. Moving in close enough to land a powerful punch often means a fighter has to take some hits. To effectively develop all the productive rock in a lease, new wells are drilled as close as possible to older ones, making frac hits inevitable.

Obstacles remain to keeping offshore development competitive with its onshore counterpart. Can the industry advance technology at a pace where the subsea segment will see a resurgence?

One of the largest presalt discoveries offshore Brazil has started producing oil. Libra field’s 1-year extended well test will provide technical data and cash for future development, which envisions three more FPSOs.

Southwest Research Institute has developed a leak detection system to autonomously monitor pipelines for hazardous chemical spills. R&D Magazine recently recognized the system as one of the 100 most significant innovations of 2017.

The CEO of Houston Mechatronics told an Aramco Innovation Day audience that robotics is at the same point that the Internet and online communication were at in the mid-1990s and will soon become “the iconic technology of this century.”