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The drop in gas prices, although greater than forecast, will not be to the same extent as oil prices.

Shell announced that it will propose appointment of Andrew Mackenzie, SPE, as a nonexecutive director of the company at its 2020 Annual General Meeting. The appointment is to be effective from 1 October.

Quality Companies appointed Derek Bollom as vice president of offshore and offsite operations for Quality Construction and Production. He has more than 16 years of experience in the fabrication and installation of offshore structures and facilities, ranging from project estimation and material procurement, to project management. Bollom was previously operations manage…

Kamel Ben-Naceur is the nominee for 2022 SPE President. He and seven others make up the new slate of nominees recommended for positions open on the SPE Board of Directors.

Edge—or, in-field, device-level—computing is being driven by the need for data from individual wells to be analyzed and processed at the wellsite instead of in data centers for early and accurate decision making.

This section lists with regret SPE members who recently passed away.

This month’s column is dedicated to technology evaluation, an area where I have spent the majority of my career.

Networking is core to SPE activities, whether through an event, a local section meeting, service on a committee, or other activity. The rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus globally is having far-reaching effects across SPE activities.

If design A yields the same 90-day production at 10% lower cost in a series of wells than design B wells, is design A the better one? Using pressure-based fracture measurements, the separability of variables between two completion designs can be evaluated.

For the upstream industry, where improvement in efficiency or production can drive significant financial results, there is no question that the size of the digital prize is huge. So are the challenges.