Academia

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.

Stuart Burley, head of Geoscience at Cairn Energy India, on taking advantage of continuing education opportunities and why learning should be an integral part of everyone’s career.

Nansen G. Saleri reflects on his career in the oil and gas industry.

Decision analysis is not a cookbook or series of boxes that must be checked before a project is approved, argue professors Reidar Bratvold and Steve Begg, who share some pointers on how to map out the likely consequences of decisions, assess the importance of individual factors, and choose the best.