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R&D is essential for the industry, regardless of the current oil price, and past down markets have spawned some key technology advances, ExxonMobil researcher Erika Biediger told the SPE Gulf Coast Section R&D study group recently.

More than a year ago, Ramanan Krishnamoorti and his team at the University of Houston started working on a predictive model that could alert oil and gas company employees when a problem might arise—and how to mitigate it.

SPE Distinguished Lecturer Dan Tormey will present his peer-reviewed study of the environmental effects of hydraulic fracturing during a Web event scheduled for 8 March.

The US is putting its offshore assets up for sale to compete for exploration dollars as offshore drilling begins to grow again.

Natural gas is the only fossil fuel that will maintain its share in the energy mix of the coming decades, mainly supported by policies to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

Drilling relies on complex webs of wired machines generating enormous amounts of data that need to be shared. But getting the appropriate data in the right hands is a problem.

LUX Assure's CoMic technology is a corrosion inhibitor micelle detection tool that can be used in the field to help manage the long-term integrity of aging assets. It provides detailed information on corrosion inhibitor dose optimization based on micelle detectino in oilfield fluids, eliminating inaccuracies that can be caused by sample degradation. The technology ens…

Keppel Offshore and Marine CEO Chris Ong Leng Yeow has joined the board of the Singapore-based KrisEnergy as a nonexecutive director. Ong has served as Keppel CEO since 1 July. Before this appointment, he was managing director of Keppel FELS, a subsidiary of Keppel Offshore and Marine. He began his career with Keppel in 1999 as a commissioning superintendent and has h…

Workers exposed to extreme cold or who work in cold environments may be at risk for cold-related illnesses and injuries.

Belize, home of the largest barrier reef in the western hemisphere, has permanently suspended oil operations in its ocean waters.