...Shouxiang (Mark) Ma A century after the 1918 flu pandemic, much of the world in early 2020 was experiencing the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown except a few places such as parts of Northern Europe. The reduced global demand for oil was one of the main reasons that the May futures contract for West Texas...

...Shouxiang (Mark) Ma Technology Focus Formation evaluation drew special attention at the 2019 International Petroleum Technology Conference (IPTC) Education Week in Beijing, 24–28 March. The student team that worked on Integrated Formation Evaluation for Resources Exploration and Reservoir...

...Shouxiang (Mark) Ma Technology Focus The future is here; a machine can learn games and beat the world’s best players. What a fascinating time we are living in—Industrial Revolution 4.0. In December 2017, news broke that AlphaZero decisively beat the world’s best players in chess after its older...

...Shouxiang (Mark) Ma Technology Focus Not too long ago, horizontal drilling revolutionized the petroleum industry. Emerging logging-while-drilling and geosteering technologies helped bring about multilateral, maximum-contact, and smart-completion wells, allowing reservoirs to be developed...

...Shouxiang (Mark) Ma Overview For the first time in its 92-year history, SPE’s flagship event, the Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) is moving to the Middle East. ATCE will be held in Dubai in September 2016 with the theme of E&P 2.0—Transforming and Shaping the Future...