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The Baker Hughes MaxCOR rotary sidewall coring service provides fast, accurate 1.5‑in. (3.8-cm) diameter core samples with 213% more volume than the standard Baker Hughes PowerCOR rotary sidewall coring samples.

On the day last February that the US Geological Survey (USGS) came out with a report saying up to 2 billion bbl of oil could be produced from shale formations on the North Slope of Alaska, a company was already planning to drill on its 500,000-acre lease.

A Distinguished Lecture on “Advances in Reservoir Management Technologies” was hosted by Ecuador’s minister of nonrenewable natural resources, Wilson Pástor, and more than 200 attendees from the Ecuadorian energy community in December. Economist Carlos Marx Carrasco, the director general of the Ecuador Internal Revenue Service, and Zhang Xing, executive president of A…

Gas exploration activity in North America looks like it is in the doldrums. In the past 12 months, gas-directed North American rig counts have fallen by almost half.

In my columns, I have talked about innovation and the importance it has in our industry. From the first well logs to horizontal drilling, innovation has been the driving force behind this industry’s successes and the key to the future.

Charles Wilds, founder and president of SOS Group, presented the need for oil and gas companies to do more for their younger high performers as the average age of the overall workforce continues to shift.

The energy contained in oil and gas makes them immensely useful—and dangerous. A fire fueled by hydrocarbons can quickly threaten anything exposed to it. Building in passive fire protection when constructing facilities is wise practice.

H.J. “Hank” Gruy, SPE, a former SPE president whose company was a pioneer in transitioning engineering calculations from mechanical calculators to computers, died 19 December 2012. He was 97.

Increasing gas demand and the requirement for short-term to medium-term import solutions have led to rapid growth in the floating regasification sector in recent years.

Technology has allowed industry to develop in ever deeper water to successfully add to energy supplies, despite the high capital requirements.