Risk management
This paper discusses cases from the North Sea and offshore California in which high-fidelity pressure and dynamics measurements, combined with high-speed telemetry, helped overcome complex geotechnical challenges.
The SPE Asset Management Technical Section (AMTS) is teaming up with the University of Houston to launch a pilot program that advances asset management practices and supports the growth of energy professionals worldwide—setting a model for future collaborations between universities and SPE technical sections.
The SPE Management Technical Section has been officially renamed the Asset Management Technical Section. The new name better reflects the section’s focus on asset management as a core discipline in the upstream oil and gas industry.
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Many of the worst oilfield incidents have been attributable to human factors. Consequently, a corporate well-control manual was refreshed to include human factors in the management of well-control incidents. -
In an effort to better understand well issues, a global offshore drilling contractor created a program of fully integrated deepwater-DP-drilling simulation exercises to scrutinize all critical aspects of deepwater well-control operations.
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This paper describes the integrated approach taken by Petronas to reinforce effective management of fatigue.
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During high-stress situations, people tend to focus on the potential hazards or outcomes to such a degree that it minimizes their ability to process facts. On 25 July, SPE will hold a webinar entitled “Risk Communication—It’s Not Just About the Facts.”
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Mediocre leadership crushes employee gold and can be the unwitting source of unforeseen organizational outcomes.
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Application of hierarchy theory helps in understanding complexity and is a tool that you should have in your engineering and management toolboxes.
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The 2017 SPE Health, Safety, Security, and Social Responsibility Conference–North America started with a blast on 18 April and continued with a discussion of how the brain works and a brain-centric view of safety.
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The secret ingredient to good soup is good broth. In the same way, culture makes the difference between reliable high performance and mediocrity in an organization.
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In North America’s most active shale fields, the drilling and hydraulic fracturing of new wells is directly placing older adjacent wells at risk of suffering a premature decline in oil and gas production.
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Royal Dutch Shell CEO Ben van Beurden is to speak at the opening plenary session at SPE Offshore Europe 2017, which is being held in Aberdeen from 5–8 September.
