December 2014
Supplement
Life as an entrepreneur: Is it for you?
My life as an entrepreneur—it couldn’t be better or more challenging. Entrepreneur; noun, [ahn-truh-pruh-nur,-noo rz; a person who organizes and manages any enterprise, especially a business, usually with considerable initiative and risk. Yes, I am once again a small business owner, hoping to do something significant. A short case study of my most recent start-up will hopefully provide insights into whether entrepreneurship is for you.
About the Authors
Art J. Schroeder, Jr.,
Energy Valley, Inc.
Art J. Schroeder, Jr., is CEO of Energy Valley, Inc., a company that provides money, marketing and management to commercialize and advance energy-related technologies. He has over 25 years’ experience in operations, engineering, construction, strategy development, and crisis management. Mr. Schroeder is also a principal of Safe Marine Transfer, LLC, and has served on numerous professional, corporate and civic boards, and has published over 100 technical papers. He graduated from Georgia Tech with BS and MS degrees in chemical engineering, and earned an MBA in finance and international business from the University of Houston. He also has completed several post-graduate programs.
- Subsea technology- Corrosion monitoring: From failure to success (February 2024)
- X80 heavy wall pipe solutions for deep/ultra-deepwater field developments in mild sour environment (November 2023)
- FluiDeep: An innovative subsea storage and injection solution for chemicals management (November 2023)
- Simplifying testing on subsea umbilical installation campaigns (August 2023)
- Manifold destiny: A new blueprint for the energy Trilemma (August 2023)
- Agile subsea production system demonstrates value of a standardized approach for operators (May 2023)
- Applying ultra-deep LWD resistivity technology successfully in a SAGD operation (May 2019)
- Adoption of wireless intelligent completions advances (May 2019)
- Majors double down as takeaway crunch eases (April 2019)
- What’s new in well logging and formation evaluation (April 2019)
- Qualification of a 20,000-psi subsea BOP: A collaborative approach (February 2019)
- ConocoPhillips’ Greg Leveille sees rapid trajectory of technical advancement continuing (February 2019)