The Color of Clean Energy
Hydrogen fuel is energy efficient, flexible and clean. When used in a fuel cell it creates only water. Unlike fossil fuels which are finite, it...
2022 July-August
Petrochemical Automation Evolves with Smart Eyes in the Field
Oil and gas production facilities are faced with a growing number of challenges today related to supply chain shortages, lack of skilled labor, and concerns...
Volatile Markets, Labor Shortages, ESG – Oh My! Level Up Your Business Automation Game or Die
PakEnergy – America’s end-to-end independent, upstream, midstream business automation leader As Dorothy said to Toto, “We’re not in Kansas anymore.” Actually, today’s markets don’t...
Booming Business – A Burden on Safety?
Demand can be unpredictable. Production frenzies are frequently a result of external factors, and safety departments are forced to keep up. Consider Amazon, which experienced...
Artificial Intelligence: Optimizing the Future of Energy and Industry
Artificial intelligence (AI) is impacting the future of virtually every industry and every human being. Everywhere you look, AI and robotics are being used in...
Anomalies: Pioneering Women in Petroleum Geology 1917 – 2017
Anomaly anom·a·ly | ə-ˈnä-mə-lē plural anomalies Definition: A departure from the expected or normal; a geologic feature that is different from the general surrounding and...
How Are Digital Technologies Helping Reduce Emissions in Oil and Gas?
As people around the world become increasingly concerned with sustainability, it’s vital that decision-makers in the oil and gas industry apply practical techniques to reduce...
A Red-Hot Welder Becomes a Champion Forged in Fire
Cody Adolphson started living the “crude life” right after high school when he started welding for Westcon at the Marathon Refinery in Mandan, North Dakota....
Fishing for a Purpose: Refitting Offshore Platforms to Transform the Planet and the Economy
Retired GOM Oil Platforms Offer Potential Homes for Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), Seawater Mineral Mining, Seaweed/Macroalgae for Energy-Feedstock and Other Sustainable Options The U.S....
An Introduction to the Pulitzer Prize Nominated Book “Clean” Energy Exploitations
The cover for “Clean” Energy Exploitation is very provocative: A soldier with an AK47 machine gun overseeing the mining of minerals in one of the...