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Energy outlooks by companies, government agencies, and private industry groups identify long-term energy trends and develop projections on supply and demand based on factors such as technological advancement, population trends, the global economy, and policy issues.

Industry operations are shifting toward high-temperature (HT) downhole settings, expensive tubular metallurgy, and extended reach wells, while health, safety, and environmental requirements become stricter.

The 7th International Petroleum Technology Conference (IPTC) in 2014 has officially announced its call for papers.

In November, SPE’s Energy4me program held its first workshop at the Canadian Unconventional Resources Conference in Calgary.

The first wells used to search for oil were drilled more than 150 years ago.

When Gerald Schotman, Shell’s chief technology officer, looks at the unconventional oil and gas business, he sees so many young technologies and “from the perspective a chief technology officer, that is such an opportunity.”

The 15th annual Abu Dhabi International Petroleum Exhibition and Conference attracted major national and international oil and gas companies from around the world to discuss common challenges and the opportunities in the region.

Oil and gas operations are moving to more complex deepwater and onshore unconventional projects, and activity in the industry is higher than ever before.

Recent activities around career planning for facilities engineers led me to a list of "must read" books. The recent ATCE generated two revelations. As an industry, we do a poor job of managing major capital projects, and we do not know how to design separators.

Papers in this month's issue include a modeling methodology for integrity maintenance of pipelines, the need to include viscosity changes in transient modeling calculations and the use of computational fluid dynamics to evaluate a production separator in the North Sea.