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Li Yugeng, SPE, died 7 November 2012 in Beijing, China. He was 83. He was the founder of SPE’s Beijing Section, established in October 1991, and was the section chairman from 1991 to 1995. Under his leadership, other sections were gradually established in China. Li was president of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) subsidiary, Daqing Oilfield, the largest oi…

This month, SPE will launch a new web- and app-based publication focusing on the health, safety, security, environment, and social responsibility (HSSE-SR) discipline.

Employees place great emphasis on training and development opportunities when choosing employers, and lack of training and skills development could hamper the oil and gas industry’s short-term potential for production growth.

An increase in local gas consumption in the UAE has caused Abu Dhabi National Oil Company to turn to development of the emirate’s sour gas fields, one of the most challenging types of fields.

David Monk said Apache Corp. uses wireless seismic receivers when it cites advantages over traditional systems connected together by cables.

This year’s SPE Student Paper Contest in the Latin American and Caribbean Region will be held 10–11 June, during the 2013 Brasil Offshore Conference in Rio de Janeiro.

In unconventional resource plays and fields with structural or stratigraphic complexities, reliable geosteering of horizontal laterals is essential to economic success.

Defining the reservoir by its porosity, permeability, fluid content, water saturation, and behavior is one of the predrilling goals of exploration and production teams, with the aim of optimizing reservoir production over the life of the field.

Exciting hydrocarbon discoveries of mind-bending quantities are being made in the far reaches of our solar system and our own Milky Way galaxy.

Two conventional attempts to run a 7-in. liner to total depth (TD) in a Norwegian North Sea well had been unsuccessful, with the liner hanging up hundreds of meters from TD. The problem was caused by borehole instability and severe washout in the weak shales, coals, and notorious paleosols of the area. A sidetrack was drilled successfully, and the liner was run with D…