... remember 30 years ago, 25 years ago and even as recently as 20 years ago when an oil and gas operator wanted to drill a wildcat well on his Federal lease in the Rocky Mountains, all he had to do was call the District Engineer (DE) of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in charge of the area where...

... that will be applied on the job, especially the things that we are holding workers and supervisors accountable for. The more concisely we can organize these things the better, as busy workers and supervisors won t take the time to sort through pages of information when they just want to know what they are expected...

... World Petroleum Congress, Madrid Ladies and gentlemen: good morning. We live, as the old saying has it, in interesting times. There was a time when energy policy was not front page news. Not any more. You've all seen the recent price rises. Within the last few months, the oil price has topped...

... and more oil and gas companies are using these for inter-company and intra-company data transfer, advertising, and many other purposes. This paper was submitted to SPE using a Web browser. With so many advantages, it is easy to foresee that these same companies want to use them more and more often...

... would like to suggest that the authors consider the situation when there are one or more gas reservoirs at low saturation conditions, which presents other problems. Reply by TEODORE VAN GOLDFRACHT: I want to thank Mr. ADAMACHE and to say that I agree with his opinion that in order to make a more...

... performance, specifically how perceptions of risk are formed. If at some point on your safety improvement journey human performance becomes an issue, you shouldn't have any trouble justifying your efforts in that direction. If you are what might be called a "safety generalist" and want to tackle the human...

... as the appropriate level of automation, mode confusion, and envelope protection approaches. This paper looks at a more basic problem: Are we able to precisely articulate what it is we want the automation to do and rigorously trace these requirements down to their granular point of implementation? The author...