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John C. Calhoun, SPE, a former SPE president who dedicated his career to higher education and civil service, died 29 November 2012. He was 95.

Those who make a living predicting oil prices see a softer ¬market in 2013, although prices are forecast to stay at historically high levels.

Changing the salinity of injection water could make the difference in getting more out of existing wells.

Using low-sal water for flood can add 30% to the amount of oil that can be recovered from a reservoir. What is the theory behind it?

This paper highlights the issues and challenges surrounding pipeline trenching and burial in ice-gouge environments. The current state of practice is discussed along with the technology gaps that need to be addressed.

A recent webinar covered the varieties of current technology for flotation equipment and provided an in-depth look into flotation technology and the options surrounding offshore applications.

SPE’s Latin America and Caribbean region is introducing two new technical conferences this year. They are the SPE Artificial Lift Conference–Americas, and the Latin America and Caribbean Health, Safety, Social Responsibility and Environment Conference.

The International Professionals in Energy Conference (IPEC 2012) “Empowering Women’s Leadership” was held recently in Kuwait.

This regular column addresses the social side of engineering. We are pleased to include an article written by two of the more prominent names in decision-theory research. Dale Griffin and Thomas Gilovich describe interesting and important insights from the study of heuristics and biases.

Bridging the gap between facilities and reservoir engineers is critical in designing systems that are flexible enough to allow a spectrum of reservoir feed conditions to be accommodated over the life cycle of the field. While subsurface uncertainties can't be eliminated, they can be managed.