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SPE goes back in time to 1978 in this throwback photo of Curtis Hays Whitson, Øistein Glasø, and Stein Børre Torp. Whitson is the author of the SPE Phase Behavior Monograph, founder of Whitson and Petrostreamz, a petroleum engineering software company, and a pioneer in fieldwide/multisample EOS (equations of state) modeling. Glasø is known for the Glasø PVT correlatio…

This photo was taken in March 2023, during my first period on a platform rig, it is a dream come true. Nine years ago, I discovered drilling, which showed me a new world with amazing postcards. I’m in workover jobs as a petroleum engineer in Mexico. I sent this picture to my brother to share my enormous happiness to be here.

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Thirty three years in the oil and gas industry and I never get tired of watching a sunset. This photo was taken from the helideck of the Ocean Onyx mobile offshore drilling unit which is currently drilling for Beach Energy, offshore Australia. I’m looking out over the Otway Basin and the vast expanse of the Southern Ocean. How far south are we? Well if I was to get in…

I’m proud to share the nice celebration of a big milestone recently achieved: 100,000 b/d produced in Iara license by the floating, production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel P-68. Congratulations to Total E&P Do Brasil and all involved. It is only the beginning of this incredible adventure.

One of the challenges I faced during the organization of the virtual Petrofusion event was the creation of an augmented reality filter of a hardhat for the event sponsor, Total.

Now more than ever, one of the biggest values of SPE membership is the professional networking opportunity. From personal experience, the sense of community I've found by being involved with SPE and the connections I've made along the way have been of the greatest benefit.

This photo was taken in December 2018 during my PhD defense at the University of Calgary. The people in the photo from the left are Gordon Moore, Larry Lines, Farouq Ali, Thomas Harding, Raj Mehta, and Roberto Aguilera. Each of them are experts in their field. This photo means a lot to me. I truly believed in "Standing on the shoulders of giants." Interestingly, Hardi…

Picture location: Took the photos at home, but the hard hat itself was made in Indonesia.

What does a reaction engineer do when his (or her) lab gets shut down by a virus pandemic? Re-purpose your equipment to make direly needed hand sanitizer for the local medical center (University of Pittsburgh Medical Center). Together with my RAPID graduate students Nasser Al Azri and Riddhesh Patel, we received permission to keep our 20 L batch reactors running to mi…