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The constant talk about the data-driven future of the oil and gas business poses a threatening question for some petroleum engineers: What do I need to know to ensure I have a job next year?

Upstream oil and gas is well behind other industries when it comes to being digitally enabled. That said, there is an enormous amount of interest in and expectation around the benefits of digital solutions.

An increasingly buzzy term tossed around at industry events, “digital twin” is leveraging data analytics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to improve efficiencies from design to decommissioning.

TechnipFMC Executive Chairman Thierry Pilenko will retire from the TechnipFMC Board of Directors, effective 1 May. He was appointed executive chairman of the board of directors of TechnipFMC to support the integration and provide continuity on a number of key projects following the formation of the company through merger. Following the completion of the TechnipFMC int…

Freedom Oil & Gas announced that effective 14 January, J. Russell Porter will be joining the company as president, CEO, and a member of the board of directors. J. Michael Yeager, Freedom’s chairman of the board, president, and CEO, will remain as nonexecutive chairman. Porter is an experienced oil and gas CEO with expertise in the US shale development business, proper…

Halliburton promoted Mark Richard, currently senior vice president of the Northern Region, to succeed Jim Brown as president of the Western Hemisphere effective 1 February. He began his career with Halliburton in 1984 in the Gulf of Mexico. Since then, he held numerous positions of increasing responsibility at the company, including vice president of the Gulf of Mexic…

Completion engineers feel pressure to maximize production per acre and minimize the downsides of fracturing in tight spaces. Terry Palisch, talks about promoting knowledge sharing as part of JPT’s tech director report.

Many companies care about corporate social responsibility. But putting it into practice requires more than CEO speeches and company policies; managers and employees have to be on board.

The chicken or the egg? The cart or the horse? Should policy or technology take the lead? It is not a reasonable question when it comes to deciding where the keys to a sustainable energy future lay—we need both.

The country continues to step up its delivery of shale gas, but has a long ways to go to meet the government's target.

The term digital oil field has become a buzzword in the oil and gas industry these days, with the mention of it bringing up pictures of computers, flashy screens, and programming to mind. In reality, the concept goes beyond these.

Researchers combined detailed observations, laboratory experiments, and existing numerical models to develop the Texas A&M Oil Spill Calculator and improve predictions of subsea oil and gas plume dynamics.