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February 27, 2017
Well Control School (WCS) is announcing an alliance with Drilbert Engineering to provide advanced technical drilling operational training for the oil and gas industry.
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February 22, 2017
Accenture opened a new innovation hub in Houston as part of the company’s accelerated innovation investment in the U.S.
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February 20, 2017
NEL, the flow measurement R&D specialist, has appointed Dr. Bruno Pinguet as senior consultant.
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February 16, 2017
Exxon Mobil, working with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), has achieved a major breakthrough with proprietary software using more than four times the previous number of processors used on complex oil and gas reservoir simulation models to improve exploration and production results.
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February 09, 2017
Oilfield Helping Hands (OHH), a nonprofit charitable organization comprised of volunteers devoted to providing financial assistance to oilfield workers in financial crisis, has been named the 2017 beneficiary of the Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) Distinguished Achievement Awards Luncheon.
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February 09, 2017
Samoco Oil Tools has launched OneTrip to greatly reduce the time and costs associated with mandatory BOP testing. The company collaborated with Shell Offshore to engineer, manufacture and test the new tool.
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January 23, 2017
Hydraulic cutting systems specialist, Webtool, announces a resettable emergency disconnect cutter for light and medium subsea well intervention.
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January 19, 2017
Fairmount Santrol announced today an extension to Propel SSP proppant transport technology, which increases hydraulic fracturing efficiency, for plays where operators face high produced water disposal costs and constraints on freshwater availability.
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January 2016
J. Blake Scott: Reducing the industry’s environmental footprint
Article
September 2015
Wallace E. Pratt: In the minds of men
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July 15, 2015
UK energy industry leaders must take action now, in order to capitalise on long-term opportunities according to a new white paper published by executive search specialists, FWB Park Brown.
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June 2015
Mario Ruscev: Innovation through empirical research
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May 2015
Alexander Palynchuk: A lifetime of innovation
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April 2015
John Quirein, PhD: From outer space to deep rock
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March 2015
The Sniffers: Detection dogs
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