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Highlights of what the US oil and gas chief said to SPE members at the recent Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference.

The perspectives gained from the Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference offer a glimpse of life after COVID-19, which looks better and different.

The awards will be presented on 23 March at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre.

The second edition of the SPE International Hydraulic Fracturing Technology Conference and Exhibition opened in Muscat, Oman, yesterday with more than 395 oil and gas professionals from 90 companies and 28 countries.

While uncertainties remain for the coming year, there is also optimism for the upstream industry, a welcome prospect following two sharp downcycles in less than 6 years.

The mood in the global oil and gas business is looking up, but the times are changing as reflected in this selection of some of the most-read JPT articles of the year.

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There is a general feeling that we may finally be getting out of the pandemic situation, after 18 months of a complete transformation of the way we work, communicate, and move.

The continued collaboration of the oil and gas industry with other technological sectors is crucial for its success. SPE has itself been a catalyst for collaboration in the industry through the events it organizes and with other societies to bring together practitioners from different disciplines.

Kamel Ben-Naceur sees petroleum engineering as essential to the energy transition not only because of the continued role that oil and gas will play in the energy mix moving forward but also because the skills of the profession are foundational and transferable.