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The essence of most drilling operations in our industry is to open the maximum length of reservoir formation with the minimum damage to the rock surface.

The finalists for the Aberdeen Section’s Offshore Achievement Awards have been announced.

Jason Norman’s search for components for an automated system to manage drilling fluids often begins with an online search.

The papers in this month's issue describe a method for optimizing separator design, impact of other chemicals on effectiveness of scale inhibitors, impact of ice movement on trenched pipelines, and use of gelled fluid to remove debris in pipelines.

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.