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The secret ingredient to good soup is good broth. In the same way, culture makes the difference between reliable high performance and mediocrity in an organization.

A senior process engineer from TechnipFMC discusses the ways in which inadequate design and sizing methodologies can lead to poor scrubber performance.

Kerogen Exploration is excited about the Vista Grande project, a Woodford Shale play in a west-Texas Permian sub-basin that offers further targets lying above in the Barnett Shale.

Apache appointed Jon A. Graham as region vice president and managing director of its North Sea operations. Graham previously served as the company's vice president of health, safety, security, and environment since May 2011 and, before that, as its region vice president and country manager in Argentina. He joined Apache in 1994 as a reservoir engineering manager in th…

M2 Subsea announced the appointment of Paddy Hardey as general manager and senior vice president of commercial . Hardey will be based in Houston and oversee the company's commercial and tendering activities as well as its contract negotiations. Hardey was recently commercial manager of Bibby Offshore's North American subsea division. Prior to this, he was commercial m…

Phaneendra Kondapi, SPE, was appointed founding director of engineering programs and professor of subsea engineering at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering Katy Campus. Kondapi was previously director of subsea engineering and professor of practice at Texas A&M University. He has more than 20 years of experience in the industry including with FMC T…

Aggressive drilling growth in the Permian and other shale plays belies the cost of those wells, which in many cases are in the red.

Sea lines transporting gas in the Persian Gulf exhibit different thermal regimes in different regions. This study summarizes hydrate-inhibition practices for these sea lines, and indicates a possibility of using them as indirect thermometers to provide important physical oceanographic data.

At the 2017 SPE Oilfield Chemistry Conference, an assistant professor from Heriot-Watt University discusses the optimization of squeeze treatments delivered by diving support vessels.

Has your company or organization invested in carbon offsets? Carbon offsets are proving an important tool for companies that want to reduce the effect of their carbon footprint.

Because marine seismic surveys are critical in finding offshore oil and gas, The International Association of Oil and Gas Producers and the International Association of Geophysical Contractors have collaborated on a position paper that assesses the effect of such work on marine mammals.

It’s no secret that some of the planet’s most successful individuals stick to rigorous fitness regimes, which makes sense; the motivation and determination required to push yourself physically are the same skills needed to reach the top of the career ladder.