“Woman on Board!”
Those words, blared long ago from a loudspeaker in the Gulf of Mexico, translated into Paula Harris being on the board of three NYSE publicly...
Articles by Lillian Espinoza-Gala
In His Words: Rick Farmer’s Journey – 40 Years Of Drilling And Completions In The Oilfield
“We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.” – Marcel...
The Virtual Barrier: A Paradigm Shift in Process Safety
In March 2014, the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Aberdeen held the first international conference on how to address the type of risk assessment that...
Sailing Into the Eye of the Perfect Oil Storm: COVID-19
Stories from members of the offshore oil and gas tribe as they work to keep the sails trimmed and the ship afloat during the turbulent...
Macondo Tragedy: Lessons Learned at the Edge of Technological Envelope in Deepwater GoM
Just before 10:00 pm on the night of April 20, 2010, the Macondo well blew high pressure oil, gas and mud through the derrick of...
Deepwater Subsea: The Long Journey from Macondo to 2020
From Paper Records to Digital Checklists and Digital Twins and an Electronic Ecosystem to Prevent the Next Macondo April 20, 2010: Mike Fry recalls that...
The Plaza Group Defining and Embracing the Core Values
It is not unusual for a Houston Petrochemical marketer to celebrate 25 years in business. But a look at the history of the company, and...
Artificial Intelligence Provides New Layers of Refinery Safety in 21st Century
In the late 1990s the oil and gas industry worked overtime against the fear of what would happen when the clocks struck midnight in the...