Technology

A data-driven look at fuel savings, battery degradation, and net CO2 impact over a 10-year ownership period.
In an industry that rarely slows down, memory can be a powerful engineering tool. Not in terms of nostalgia, but in perspective. Many of the activities that constituted daily operations have been so deeply transformed that new generations of engineers may never have experienced them before.
A smart safety helmet with physiological monitoring, gas detection, and real-time location tracking for emergencies was the winning concept at this year's SPE Students Technical Symposium and Exhibition.
  • Monte Carlo simulation is the principal analytical tool of risk analysis. Its direct objective is always to estimate the range of something [e.g., reserves, project cost, business unit annual production, net present value (NPV), rate of return].
  • Gardiner Hill, Group Environment Technology Manager with BP, spoke at the second event that the Aberdeen Emerging Leaders Program has organized with the SPE Aberdeen Section. Hill is also Chairman of the CO2 Capture Project, a Vice Chair of the European Union Technology Platform for Zero Emissions Fossil Fuel Power Plants, and Chairman of the Industry Assn. for CO2 Ca…
  • John Thorogood, Chief Engineer for the BP Sakhalin exploration program, explains why technical journals play such an important role in the life of an engineering professional.
  • Christine Ehlig-Economides reflects on her career and how being in the right place at the right time has made all the difference.
  • Bob Worrall of Shell E&P looks back on a career spanning nearly 4 decades.
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