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Twenty-one Saudi Aramco engineers passed the SPE certification exam in December, during the largest session held at the company to date.

The XII IATMI National Symposium and Congress was held recently in Jakarta under the theme, “Harmonization of Energy Policy in Efforts to Increase Production of Oil & Gas Reserves of Conventional & Unconventional Energy for Sustainability.” The event, which included technical talks and an exhibition, was attended by more than 500 people. The welcoming speech was prese…

Member DeathTheodore R. Blevins, Fort Collins, Colorado

SPE Dallas Section 2013 Mid-Continent Regional Awards were presented in June at the monthly section meeting at Brookhaven College in Farmers Branch, Texas. Brian Chacka, left, accepted the Distinguished Corporate Support Award on behalf of Denbury Resources, located in Plano, Texas. Michael Tunstall (current Mid-Continent Regional Director) and Dan Auces both received…

SPE members Jenny Cronlund, Flavia Mara Guzman Villarroel, and Abhijeet Kulkarni were nominated by SPE for the 2013 New Faces of Engineering Award sponsored by the National Engineers Week Foundation. Kulkarni was selected as the 2013 winner and appeared in a USA Today advertisement along with 12 additional winners from participating organizations. SPE’s Energy4me Prog…

The American Institute of Mining, Metallurgy, and Petroleum Engineering (AIME) has donated a total of USD 12,000 to SPE through its Hayden Fund and Douglas Library Fund to support member programs and services. One of the most important ways AIME supports its member societies is through access to project and program funding opportunities and the distribution of legacy …

BWA offers its Bellasol oilfield antiscalant product line (Fig. 5) that meets Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science standards. The suite of products includes a biodegradable antiscalant (68% in 28 days per the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Test 306) that is hydrothermally stable to 180°C, is compatible with biocides and other…

Two conventional attempts to run a 7-in. liner to total depth (TD) in a Norwegian North Sea well had been unsuccessful, with the liner hanging up hundreds of meters from TD. The problem was caused by borehole instability and severe washout in the weak shales, coals, and notorious paleosols of the area. A sidetrack was drilled successfully, and the liner was run with D…

John M. Campbell Sr., an internationally renowned expert in the petroleum industry who served as chairman of the University of Oklahoma’s School of Petroleum Engineering, died 24 August 2013, at his home in Norman, Oklahoma, after a brief illness. He was 91.

To help create public awareness and promote education around a key challenge in the industry, SPE launched a new website devoted to factual, transparent information about hydraulic fracturing.