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The US rig count has inched up recently, and the driver has been the old reliable of onshore oil production, the Permian Basin. With surging production, the Permian is the only major US oil shale play to grow since crude prices began to fall.

C. Susan Howes was named vice president of engineering at Subsurface Consultants and Associates (SCA). She will be responsible for maintaining technical quality standards for the company’s recruitment, consultancy, and training services. She will also participate in the direction, administration, and coordination of SCA’s operations, manage technical projects, and ser…

A presentation from the 2016 Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Technical Symposium examines a testing strategy to determine the effectiveness of paraffin inhibitors.

Subsea processing is an evolving technology in ultradeepwater development and has the potential to unlock a significant amount of hydrocarbon resources. In this paper, the authors have reviewed the application of subsea systems in 12 deepwater fields and discussed the significance of each.

Helicopter operations are important in the offshore industry but accidents involving them can have fatal consequences. This paper focuses on risk mitigation during the loading/unloading task of a slickline/wireline job from various viewpoints, including the psychological aspects of the crew.

Please congratulate SPE’s Regional Award recipients for 2016.

A new initiative by the SPE Gulf Coast Section is helping out-of-work members find jobs and is bringing entrepreneurial ideas into fruition.

Ganesh Thakur, SPE, was appointed distinguished professor of petroleum engineering in the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston (UH) by Texas Governor Greg Abbott as part of the Governor’s University Research Initiative (GURI). Thakur will also serve as the director for Energy Industrial Partnerships at UH. He is the president and global advisor a…

It may seem like reason is a powerful tool to lead us to truth, but does it really work well?

In this work, the authors perform automatic decline analysis on Marcellus Shale gas wells and predict ultimate recovery for each well.