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Patterson-UTI Energy appointed Janeen S. Judah to its board of directors. Judah has more than 35 years' operational and managerial experience within the energy industry. Most recently, she served as the 2017 SPE president while on secondment from Chevron. She held numerous leadership positions at Chevron including general manager for Chevron's Southern Africa business…

Experimentation reveals that swellable nanogels increase their size faster than expected or produce aggregation leading to serious blocking problems at the sandface. This paper studies if the addition of a surfactant can help improve injectivity.

The $50-million investment ranks as one of Total Energy Ventures’ biggest investments to date. Dedicated to China’s energy sector, it will focus on renewable energies, the energy internet, energy storage, distributed energy, smart energy, and low-carbon businesses.

At least four US pipeline companies have seen their electronic systems for communicating with customers shut down over the last few days, with three confirming it resulted from a cyberattack.

An 18-month project will develop and trial a mobile robot for autonomous operational inspection of Total facilities.

A cyberattack on a third-party provider of an electronic data interchange platform temporarily interrupted Energy Transfer Partners’ ability to transfer files with its customers.

When selecting extinguishers, most organizations insist on quality, often deferring to the UL fire ratings with the expectation that higher ratings mean better firefighting capability. For some fires, that is true; however, in high-risk environments, the opposite can be true.

Janeen Judah, 2017 SPE President was honored at the first Oil and Gas Investor event honoring women in the industry. She held several Chevron leadership positions including general manager for Chevron’s Southern Africa Business Unit, president of Chevron Environmental Management Company, and general manager of Reservoir and Production Engineering for Chevron Energy Te…

Ramona Graves, SPE’s Director for Academia, was honored at the first Oil and Gas Investor event honoring women in the industry. Graves, who is dean of the College of Earth Resource Sciences and Engineering and a petroleum engineering professor at the Colorado School of Mines, received the Pinnacle Award for lifetime achievement and contributions to the industry. Judah…

Lack of situational awareness in drilling operations has become an important safety factor. This study presents experiments conducted in a virtual-reality drilling simulator equipped with eye-tracking technology that can be used to distinguish between less and more aware/alert participants.