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Lonestar Resources CFO Doug Banister retired on 30 April. He will provide consulting services to the company on a going-forward basis. Jason N. Werth has joined the company as the chief accounting officer and Gregory R. Packer joined as general counsel. Werth's most recent position was director of audit at Denbury Resources. He previously held positions at Arthur Ande…

Oceaneering's self-contained, battery-powered (cage-mounted 100-kW battery pack) remotely operated vehicle (E-ROV) system performs common ROV tasks including inspection, valve operation, torque tool operation, and manipulator-related activities. The system interfaces with the company's onshore Mission Support Center via a 4G mobile broadband signal transmitted from a …

Darcy Spady, 2018 SPE president, visited engineering faculty and students at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur in March. Spady met with Malaysian Student Chapters representatives and had separate meetings with Professor Aziz Rahman, dean of faculty of engineering, and Badrul Mohamed Jan, the university student chapter adviser. Members of six SPE student chapter…

The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME) has released a report titled “In Pursuit of Technological Innovation” that outlines the goals and initial analysis of the AIME Council of Excellence, established in 2014 by Behrooz Fattahi, the AIME president at the time. The report is available for free download at the AIME website at www…

Stories from the IADC/SPE Drilling Conference look at how the next generation of engineers is performing, the hottest well ever drilled, and the art of translating drilling numbers into executive reports.

As leaders in digital drilling analysis push into real-time data analysis and digital controls, they are finally confronting data-quality problems. Humans are better than machines at dealing with ambiguous readings.

Higher oil prices and higher-intensity completions are increasing the need for US onshore pressure pumping horsepower. Will still recovering pressure pumpers and equipment manufacturers be able to step up?

Sensor technology in the oil industry changes infrequently. Improvements in MEMS sensor technology are creating rapid momentum toward the use of tiny, rugged, and inexpensive sensors to replace larger, costlier, and more fragile legacy-technology sensors in directional drilling.

All eyes in the upstream continue to be on the growth in unconventional production, particularly in the US. But the offshore arena may be making a quiet comeback, at least in the near term.

Energy companies are looking to distributed ledger technology—otherwise known as blockchain—to help navigate the complex transactional systems that make up their operations. What is blockchain, and what makes it valuable to our industry?