Search results for:

A preview of the International Petroleum Technology Conference highlights six interviews with oil and gas industry leaders.

Petroleum industry professionals reported an average total compensation of USD 203,557 in 2013, similar to the level reported in the 2011 salary survey, after showing a larger percentage increase in 2012.

SPE recently sponsored a forum on the need to ensure an appropriately educated upstream engineering workforce in 2020 and beyond.

In this first article on technological frontiers, I will focus on the ways in which modern knowledge-transfer avenues are impacting the industry and, more specifically, SPE.

This paper explores the interplay between field development and lifecycle reservoir management.

In the kingdom of wet completion, Petrobras has just installed its first tension-leg wellhead platform, in the field of Papa Terra in 1190-m-deep water. It is going to be a revolution regarding how to operate such an installation and be able to produce the heavy oil of Papa Terra (14–17°API).

Drilling in extreme environments is helping drive advances in the oil and gas industry and presents analogs that can be mined for insight.

Mitchell's legacy proving up the Barnett shale established him as the "Father of the Shale Gas Revolution."

In North America, unconventional oil and gas* represents the largest energy discontinuity of the past few decades.

Alternative approaches and new deployment strategies are being developed to manage water used for fracturing oil and gas wells.