Money Really Isn’t Everything
The story of the infamous Koch brothers is both riveting and cringe-inducing, a painful confirmation of everything your mother told you about the evils of money, its power to destroy…
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Patience in the Time of Collaboration
Lessons from history. With apologies to Gabriel Garcia Marquez. ‘Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.’ Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera As I…
Seismic to Simulation… and Beyond
Emerson Process Management has recently increased its full reservoir lifecycle capabilities through the acquisition of flow assurance and production optimization software company Yggdrasil and the incorporation of its solutions within…
Well Completion Technology for Complex Environments
The new Weatherford technology for optimal completion design. Two key focus areas in unconventional exploitation are cost efficiencies and managing well production variance. A better understanding of rock behaviour as measured by…
Nailing the Truth
Shale Gas and Fracking: The Science Behind The Controversy Michael Stevenson. Elsevier, 2015 Published in 2015, this 150-page book is an up-to-date review of this new energy source from a…
Vibrant, Exciting New Orleans
Unique New Orleans, one of the oldest cities in the United States. Renowned for music, architecture, street parades and cuisine, the city also had its time in the oil industry…
‘Strata’ Smith Enters the Digital Age
A new website celebrates the bicentenary of the first geological map of England and Wales in 1815. The 1st of August 2015 marks the bicentenary of the publication of a map…
Iran Returns to the Market
With Iranian export sanctions about to be lifted, what effect will this potential influx of hydrocarbons have on the already pressurised price of oil? In July, Iran signed an historic…
Standarad Oil II – John D. Rockefeller: The First and Richest Oil Tycoon
In this second part of the Standard Oil story, we profile John D. Rockefeller, the man who founded the world’s first large oil company, which was forced by the US…
Walking an Arctic Tightrope
Relying heavily on the petroleum industry for revenue, yet on the pure waters of the Arctic Ocean for subsistence, native Alaskans struggle to find a delicate balance. Before the historical…
An Education in Oil
How can the media best engage the public on fossil fuels? Documentary or drama? The BBC has been attempting both. The 1st of August 2015 marks the bicentenary of the publication…
The Active Volcanoes of Hawai‘i
Breathtaking views, surreal landscapes, and the chance to come face to face with an active volcano, the Island of Hawai‘i offers the geotourist encounters of a lifetime, and scientists a…