Academia

For young professionals, understanding the governing principles of oil price and connecting them with facts is key to facing the price turmoil.

Just entering the oil and gas job market? Heriot-Watt University’s Eric Mackay tells you how to carve out a career and create a niche for yourself.

How to understand the complexities of unconventional reservoirs.

Entrepreneurship can open the door to job creation within the industry. Two professors from Rice explain their efforts to train engineers in entrepreneurship as part of their curriculum.

Wumi Idelare, LSU, provides a primer on petroleum fiscal systems worldwide and discusses how the terms and requirements may potentially affect the attractiveness of a country's resources for development.

A discussion of how surfactants (soap) can improve recovery and revive mature oil fields.

Exploiting deepwater resources in a cost-effective manner presents a number of challenges for the industry, In the deepwater Brazilian presalt, research and development may provide solutions.

This article presents three important R&D realms that demonstrate good collaborative efforts between independents and academic research institutions.

A review of the current status and research on CO2 flooding and CO2 sequestration.

A brief introduction to the subject regions, highlighting some key differences with respect to other known basins as well as the size of the prize, is followed by a focus on fluid properties’ role in terms of field development and uncertainty reduction.