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I extend a warm welcome to 2013, which henceforth will be known as the year of the facilities engineer. We are playing a more important role today than we ever have in the delivery of hydrocarbon assets to meet the world’s energy needs.

The topic of “the cloud” has attracted significant attention throughout the past few years and, as a result, academics and trade journals have created several competing definitions of “cloud computing”.

Charles Frederic Rand and Robert Earll McConnell

Well-designed mentoring programs enable organizations to align and seamlessly integrate training, coaching, and mentoring initiatives into holistic, personalized offerings.

Once the stuff of science fiction, artificial intelligence (AI) has become ubiquitous in our daily life, and the modern oil and gas industry is no exception.

After the Macondo incident, the oil industry started a significant review of its capabilities to respond to a subsea well blowout and launched some specific development projects.

The label unconventional resources, for shale or other nontraditional oil and gas formations, has its detractors.

SPE recently held an Applied Tech¬nology Workshop (ATW) on “SPE Petroleum Resources Management Systems (PRMS) Reserves and Resources Definitions–Applicable to Both Unconventional and Conventional Resources?” in Penang, Malaysia.

Chevron has committed USD 1 million to support SPE programs aimed at increasing student participation and advancing energy education.

Nominations for the 2013 SPE International and Regional Awards are due 15 February.