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Michael J. Stover retired from his position as vice president of operations services at Marathon Oil after 30 years with the company. Stover began his career at Marathon as a roustabout, eventually being promoted to operations and reservoir engineering work for the Yates field in Texas. In 1991, he transferred to the company’s international group based in Houston and …

Change is constant in the oil and gas industry, bringing an increase in operational risk. As companies acquire and develop assets around the world, they must reduce their risk exposure by improving operational integrity.

Iran’s oil and gas sector has been significantly affected by the introduction and tightening of international sanctions in recent years. represents a significant step forward in terms of normalizing the country’s relations with the global community.

Use of unmanned aerial vehicles to monitor pipeline networks for theft and other issues is discussed.

Can aggregative contingent estimation (ACE) improve the quality of oil price forecasts and even project performance? I have come to believe that oil price can be determined with reasonable confidence, and the key to such forecasting is ACE.

Three case studies discuss the challenges of defining efficient facilities in difficult locations.

A subject field perhaps little known in the oil and gas industry is action science, a strategy for increasing the skills and confidence of individuals in groups to create organizations and to foster long-term individual and group effectiveness.

Lessons learned by the members of the SPE Separations Technology Technical Section, representing more than 250 years' experience, are presented so that the same mistakes are not repeated in the future.

Facilities engineers are being replaced with a combination of project engineers, package engineers, and other specialists, leading to an increase in complexity in upstream projects.

Computational fluid dynamics modeling has proven promising for improving scrubber performance.

Bypass pigging has advantages over conventional approaches. Its application to multi-phase flow with high wax content crude is discussed.

Douglas-Westwood (DW) expects the expenditure of subsea vessel operations to begin a gentle upswing after next year.