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The need to economically invest in offshore exploration and production has inspired a wide range of innovations in Norway to drastically reduce costs, which can lead to changes in offshore operations around the world.

Industry's finest minds are expected to come together for an idea summit during the upcoming SPE Intelligent Energy International Conference and Exhibition in Aberdeen.

The first in what is expected to be a series of compendia focused on cutting-edge research and field experiences in health, safety, security, environment, and social responsibility (HSSE-SR) is now available for free download from SPE. The goal behind this collection is to offer readers a cross-section of technical papers presented around the world at various flagship…

SPE’s Board of Directors has created a new Completions technical discipline, concluding that the interests of SPE professional members from the drilling and completions, and production and operations communities would be best served if completions became a separate technical discipline.

Regardless of the oil price, large joint venture upstream projects have significantly underperformed on cost, schedule, and production. Smaller upstream projects have not fared much better.1 While there are a number of good books that go into some detail on reasoning focused principally on project management, poor decision quality played a very significant role in the…

John H. Graham Jr., SPE, A. Paul Baclawski, SPE, John F. Templin II, Steve T. Whitaker, and Dean R. Richmond have formed a privately held, startup upstream oil and gas acquisition company titled Senex Energy Partners. Before forming the company, the founders of Senex worked together as senior analysts in Devon Energy’s new ventures and acquisitions and exploration tea…

When panels in an instrument equipment shelter kept tripping and the occasional smell of H2S led to an investigation of the rationale. Although a rare occurrence, this paper presents a strategy for prevention through careful site selection.

May 16 marked the 145th anniversary of the founding of the American Institute of Mining Engineers (AIME), SPE’s parent organization.

The deployment of appropriate CO2-separation technologies for natural gas processing is viewed as an abatement measure toward global CO2-emissions reduction. Selection of the optimum technology requires special attentiion.

With the oil and gas industry facing an uncertain financial future, organizations are looking for any way to save costs. One way to achieving cost savings is through efficient planning in the construction and conversion of floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) units. In a technical session, “Practical Steps Towards FPSO Cost Reduction,” held Wednesday at…