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...
Oilman July-August 2022
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....
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....
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...
Every “Aha” Moment Requires Genuine Follow-Through to Achieve Success
For R3’s solution to recovering synthetic drilling fluid, this meant a combination of expertise, innovation, patience and persistence. Our “aha” moment came at 2 a.m.,...