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Helicopter operations are important in the offshore industry but accidents involving them can have fatal consequences. This paper focuses on risk mitigation during the loading/unloading task of a slickline/wireline job from various viewpoints, including the psychological aspects of the crew.

A presentation from the 2016 Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Technical Symposium examines a testing strategy to determine the effectiveness of paraffin inhibitors.

It may seem like reason is a powerful tool to lead us to truth, but does it really work well?

Researchers from MIT, Adobe, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Toronto, Texas A&M, and the University of Texas developed a new language for programming simulations. Requiring only one-tenth as much code as hand-optimized simulations, the program Simit facilitated simulations that were dozens or even hundreds times as fast as those written in …

Virtual reality technology has become a powerful training tool for companies looking to recreate real-life, on-the-job oil industry scenarios.

SPE PFC Technical Director Howard Duhon hands over the reins to incoming technical director Hisham Saadawi.

Marathon promoted T. Mitch Little to executive vice president of operations. Little, who currently serves as the company’s vice president of conventional, will oversee its resource play and conventional businesses in his new role. He previously served as managing director of Marathon Oil Norge and as general manager for Marathon’s worldwide drilling and completions bu…

At the 2016 Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Technical Symposium in New Orleans, a presentation discussed the application of sensors and analytics in pipeline integrity management systems.

Lamprell, a provider of fabrication, engineering, and contracting (EPC) services to the onshore and offshore oil and gas industry, appointed Christopher McDonald chief executive officer and director, succeeding Jim Moffat who will be retiring from the company. McDonald has 24 years’ experience in the oil and gas EPC industry. He previously held the position of executi…

The Dakota Access Pipeline, which will connect the Bakken and Three Forks production areas, has received the regulatory go-ahead from the US Army Corps of Engineers.

Eight salvage experts have boarded the Transocean Winner, which ran agorund off the Isle of Lewis on 8 August.

By using a Bayesian network, a probabilistic graphical model, in their shale operations, companies might eliminate some of the hurdles they face in these areas, an expert said at the 2016 Unconventional Resources Technology Conference.