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Ceri Powell will step down as executive vice president for exploration at Royal Dutch Shell to become managing director of Brunei Shell Petroleum. Marc Gerrits will replace her in the position. Powell has been in her current role for the past 7 years, taking over in 2010 after a 2-year stint as vice president of strategy with the company. From 2004 to 2008 she was vic…

Although Saudi Arabia has plenty of sand, it took some ingenuity by Saudi Aramco and Schlumberger to figure out how to use it effectively as proppant.

In the keynote speech at the SPE Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference, author and founder of the Center for Industrial Progress Alex Epstein explained the moral case for fossil fuels.

TWA's Managing Editor Amber Sturrock shares her takeaways from the 2016 Emerging Leaders Alliance Conference and encourages young professionals to attend this year's edition.

Ted Jacobson has announced his retirement from his position as CEO of Carnarvon Petroleum due to health issues and a desire to spend more time with his family. Jacobson has been a nonexecutive director at Carnarvon since 2005. As CEO, he led the successful discovery, development, and production of oil in Thailand. Prior to joining the company, he co-founded Discovery …

Fossil fuels will probably be at the forefront of energy and environmental policy under the new Trump Administration, says Charles D. McConnell, executive director of Rice University’s Energy and Environment Initiative, at a talk hosted by the Norwegian Consulate General in Houston.

Curtis W. Mewbourne, SPE, was inducted into the Petroleum Hall of Fame by The Permian Basin Petroleum Museum in Midland, Texas. Instituted in 1967, the Petroleum Hall of Fame honors persons and firms who have made outstanding contributions to the development of the petroleum industry or have served as worthy examples to those in the industry. Mewbourne founded the Mew…

Scientists have developed oxidized carbon particles that extract radioactive metals, such as cesium and strontium, from water. They said the materials may help purify contaminated waters stored after the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident and also can trap common radioactive elements found in waterfloods from oil extraction, such as uranium, thorium, and radium,

Changes coming to the anonymity tools underlying the darknet may make a deeper kind of online privacy possible. Soon anyone will be able to create their own corner of the Internet that’s not just anonymous and untraceable, but entirely undiscoverable without an invite.

The new Juniper offshore platform began its journey toward Trinidad to be installed as BP Trinidad and Tobago LLC’s 14th offshore installation. Juniper will have a production capacity of approximately 590 MMscf/D.