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Plains All American Pipeline entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Occidental Petroleum’s 50% share in BridgeTex Pipeline Company for USD 1.075 billion. BridgeTex owns the BridgeTex Pipeline—a 300,000 B/D crude pipeline system that extends from Colorado City in west Texas to Texas City, approximately 15 miles from the port of Galveston. The remaining 50% of …

Enitome Buluku, who is pursuing an MSc degree in oil and gas engineering at the University of Aberdeen, won the SPE Aberdeen Section’s second biennial Energy Apprentice contest, which was held at the Douglas Hotel on 5 November. The contest pits university students from across Scotland in three elimination rounds that test professional and engineering skills required …

Thermal recovery often causes variations in heavy oil viscosity. Yet viscosity is key to recovery, reserves estimation, and ultimately project success. A correlation for predicting viscosity is presented.

Compressor stations often consume 3-5% of the gas they are transporting as fuel. How to minimize this fuel consumption in an optimal manner is the subject of this paper.

SPE education initiative Energy4me held its first Russian teacher workshop during the SPE Russian Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Technical Conference and Exhibition in Moscow on 16 October, the final day of the three-day event.

The 2014 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) in Amsterdam drew people from all over the world, covered global themes, and focused on the triumphs, challenges, and remaining opportunities for the North Sea.

Verbeek encourages the submission of discussions on peer reviewed papers and introduces the four papers for this month -- three on subsea topics and one on an innovative EOR process in a mature field.

The rapid development of shale formations over the past decade has led the United States to become the world’s undisputed leader in natural gas production.

The realization that we should not look at any individual aspect of how to estimate unconventional reserves and resources properly without considering its place in the project life cycle reflects a maturity within the industry.

The drive for financial performance demands a change in leadership skills at all management levels and a new perspective on change. Managers abandon a traditional control orientation for one of involvement by becoming facilitators who delegte, maintain open doors, and lead by example.