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In the August Oil and Gas Facilities, I wrote about the inherency of poetry in our work and how it helps define who we are. In this issue, I share a remarkable example of poetry at work in the mind and heart of an engineer and how it resonated with people and helped to change an industry.

The subsea market is one of the fastest-growing sectors of the international oil and gas industry, involving the development and deployment of some of the most advanced technology ever created in increasingly inhospitable environments.

A sharp rise in seismic events in some areas of the United States where oil and gas production is booming is leading regulators and the industry to examine whether the two are related.

Jim Moffat, chief executive officer of UAE-based oil and gas construction and engineering group Lamprell, says offshore drilling rig construction in the Middle East is booming.

Can activities related to shale oil and gas production cause earthquakes? Yes. Can these be avoided? Yes, again.

Last year, lawmakers in the United States sent a blunt message to the oil business: If it wants new exploration and production technology, it will need to pick up more of the cost.

SPE’s 2014 Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) will be held at the Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre in Amsterdam, Netherlands, during 27–29 October. Since the first ATCE in 1924, this is the second time its venue will be in Europe.

This is my final column and I will use it to update you on the state of the society in the context of my goals for the year and the status of the strategic initiatives adopted last year by the SPE Board of Directors.

This paper describes field experiences and perspectives on a Smart Fields implementation for the Bonga deepwater field and uses the results of a post-implementation study to evaluate the business effects and lessons learned after 5 years.

The world’s first offshore gas-hydrate production was carried out successfully in deepwater Japan at Nankai trough in 2013.