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Neil Chapman was appointed as the president of ExxonMobil Chemical and elected to serve as the vice president of ExxonMobil, replacing the retiring Stephen Pryor. Chapman joined the company in 1984, working for an Esso Chemical refinery in the United Kingdom. He advanced within the company in a series of engineering, operations, planning, and marketing roles in chemic…

Thermal recovery often causes variations in heavy oil viscosity. Yet viscosity is key to recovery, reserves estimation, and ultimately project success. A correlation for predicting viscosity is presented.

Compressor stations often consume 3-5% of the gas they are transporting as fuel. How to minimize this fuel consumption in an optimal manner is the subject of this paper.

The 2014 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) in Amsterdam drew people from all over the world, covered global themes, and focused on the triumphs, challenges, and remaining opportunities for the North Sea.

High H2S and CO2 content in natural gas pose significant challenges to processing equipment. This article explores the challenges of sulfur removal and high pressures in the presence of acid gas.

Recent and upcoming programming for PFC members is discussed.

For Anadarko, the secret of the “design one, build many” approach to offshore production facilities is to control its enthusiasm for change. The company’s experience with eight operated spars shows the benefits gained with this approach.

Growing world demand for natural gas will drive increases in capital expenditures on LNG through 2019.

While there is no one way to prevent all accidents from occurring, organizations can develop an effective safety culture that allows them to learn from their mistakes.

A webinar examined reasons why projects fail to meet profit expectations and how success potential can be enhanced.

Subsea power demand is growing to support various processing loads, including pumps and compressors. This paper presents a modular direct-current electrical-power system that is designed for use in a subsea field with medium or long step-out distance

Rice University has been working on effective models of phase behavior and asphaltene deposition as a path to improved design that can reduce this challenge for operators.