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C. Susan Howes was named vice president of engineering at Subsurface Consultants and Associates (SCA). She will be responsible for maintaining technical quality standards for the company’s recruitment, consultancy, and training services. She will also participate in the direction, administration, and coordination of SCA’s operations, manage technical projects, and ser…

The SPE Board of Directors has realigned the Production & Operations and Projects, Facilities & Construction technical disciplines under one Technical Director.

The compact nature of offshore platforms makes the management of the exhaust from engines a concern from a health and safety standpoint. In this paper, the authors present a typical plume-impingement problem aboard an offshore platform and discuss the application of plume-cooling technology.

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

Subsea processing is an evolving technology in ultradeepwater development and has the potential to unlock a significant amount of hydrocarbon resources. In this paper, the authors have reviewed the application of subsea systems in 12 deepwater fields and discussed the significance of each.

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.

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.