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Every year, SPE recognizes members who have made an exceptional effort to ensure the technical excellence of the Society’s peer-reviewed journals. For their contributions, the following individuals are recipients of the 2015 Outstanding Technical Editor Award.

SPE created the A Peer Apart program to recognize dedicated individuals who have been involved in the peer review of 100 or more papers. Members who commit their time to peer review papers make substantial contributions to the industry’s literature by helping to ensure that the papers published in SPE’s technical journals are the highest quality. Over time, these indi…

SPE has reduced its global staff by 12% in response to current industry conditions. This is the first time in its 58-year history that SPE has had to make an economic-based layoff. CEO and Executive Vice President Mark Rubin said, “SPE remains focused on providing excellent service to our members. In deciding how to make staff reductions, we focused on our ability to …

A subject field perhaps little known in the oil and gas industry is action science, a strategy for increasing the skills and confidence of individuals in groups to create organizations and to foster long-term individual and group effectiveness.

Lessons learned by the members of the SPE Separations Technology Technical Section, representing more than 250 years' experience, are presented so that the same mistakes are not repeated in the future.

Facilities engineers are being replaced with a combination of project engineers, package engineers, and other specialists, leading to an increase in complexity in upstream projects.

Computational fluid dynamics modeling has proven promising for improving scrubber performance.

Bypass pigging has advantages over conventional approaches. Its application to multi-phase flow with high wax content crude is discussed.

Douglas-Westwood (DW) expects the expenditure of subsea vessel operations to begin a gentle upswing after next year.

In the current economic environment, efficient water management practices will become even more essential for companies looking to run successful hydraulic fracturing operations.