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Global energy growth over the next 20 years is expected to be dominated by emerging economies, with primary energy use growing by nearly 40%.

Investment in North American unconventional projects has increased sharply since the “shale revolution” began as operators look for ways to get into promising projects and walk away with expertise they can take back to potential shale development in their own countries.

This month I will share with you how SPE funds its programs and services and next month I will write about the work on strategy that your board has been working on

Separations technology-related content has been expanded and made available to SPE members through the efforts of the Separations Technology Technical Section.

In spite of massive investments in project management best practices and the organizations to implement them, major oil and gas projects continue to experience cost overruns and schedule delays. A root cause that has not been sufficiently explored is the built-in bias toward overconfidence.

This month's papers cover a new method to evaluate the design pressure of flowlines and risers, pipeline integrity assessment, treatment and removal of sand from pipelines, and considerations around the in-situ burning of oil on water.

The Hadrian-5 prospect in the US Gulf of Mexico was drilled in approximately 7,000 ft of water as one of the first Gulf of Mexico wells drilled after a deepwater moratorium was imposed after the Macondo disaster.

Riser margins were abandoned when fluid columns in risers became too long with increasing water depth accessed when floating drilling units with subsea blowout preventers (BOPs) moved to deep water.

The Goliat field will be the first offshore oil field in the Barents Sea and the world’s northernmost offshore oil field.

Kuwait Oil Company started free gas production from its Jurassic sour-gas field in May 2008 with the commissioning of Early Production Facility (EPF) 50.