COVID-19 had a significant impact on several industries in the U.S., with many businesses facing hardships, such as financial loss. Small businesses (SMBs) were among the…
“The silence was profound,” Barbara MacMullan recalls of the day Block Island switched from diesel generators to the first commercial offshore wind farm in the United…
I did not have many female role models when I started my career working as a field engineer on offshore oil rigs. So, I did what…
The earth is perfect, and energy is always at our fingertips; that is the lesson to be learned from hydrokinetic energy. The motion found in the…
Oil and gas pipelines are essential to our energy reliability, energy security and economic prosperity. When the Colonial Pipeline was shut down recently, America experienced the…
In the past year, the energy geoscience community has experienced a proliferating trend of career transformations that are coincident with the evolving markets and global energy…
In addition to a long career as a journalist, I became a petroleum landman (emphasis on “land” – feet firmly on the ground) 10 years ago.…
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A variety of contaminants, which are either chemical elements or compounds, enter a gas turbine engine. Some of the contaminants to gas turbines that are detrimental…
When she first started diving commercially [in 1996], one of the supervisors at the company she was diving for told her she was too pretty to…
I was a child raised in a country ravaged by war. In instances when the world was bleak, I saw color in the skies, not far…
When bp CEO Bernard Looney streamlined the corporate leadership structure in May 2020, it enabled Starlee Sykes, bp’s president of the Gulf of Mexico and Canada,…
As a safety professional, I find myself attempting to arm the workforce with weapons of safety assurance. They vary in coverage, but each plays an important…
Not so long ago, augmented reality (AR) seemed like a far-off dream for many industry applications, but the technology has advanced so quickly that it’s now…
For decades, Venezuela was the oil market in South America. With its vast reserves of over 300 billion barrels of proved crude oil (the largest of…
Alan Alexeyev: Tell us a little bit about your current (or latest) position and what you do, as well as how you found a job. Adedayo…
In December of 2020, I headed offshore as the wellsite geologist on an exploration drilling campaign in the Bay of Bengal. COVID-19 restrictions were in place…
Crux OCM, an innovative autonomous control room that works alongside humans to increase efficiency and safety, is the brainchild of CEO Vicki Knott and CTO Roger…
The Biden administration proposed a $2 trillion infrastructure bill in April flush with items that in the past were not considered infrastructure. Typically, infrastructure consists of…
Who says the days of the larger-than-life oilman are over? Energy advisor and corporate development strategist, Mark A. Stansberry, has traveled the world, met heads of…
“A carbon tax is gonna increase the cost of energy on consumers in America and I don’t think consumers in America want that. As Secretary of…
Cyberattacks against companies in every industry are growing more frequent and costly. The oil industry is no exception to that rule. In a recent example, oil-drilling…
I grew up asking questions and wanting to solve problems. My late father allowed me to get away with what most people thought was unacceptable for…
In 2007 I chaired four energy events for the centennial celebration of Oklahoma’s statehood. The events were a salute to the past, present, future, and women…
2:45 pm – It’s now mid-day in the Gulf of Mexico on an ultra-deepwater drillship. I’m on Day 14 of a 28-day hitch and am working…
I wish I had been raised in Norway! Maria Moræus Hanssen tells me that Norway, her home country, and the other Scandinavian countries, are the best…
OILMAN Magazine recently interviewed Michael Ferrante, W Energy Software’s VP of Transportation, to learn how the Tulsa-based software developer is helping energy companies move oil, gas…
Chris Summers, owner Terrapin Wetsuits: I graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Geophysics from Texas A&M University (TAMU) in 1977. I first went to work…
Amid all the competitive and political uncertainty generated by the Biden Administration’s plan to curb greenhouse gas emissions and formally engage the United States in the…
On May 7, 2021, Colonial Pipeline was hacked. The pipeline immediately shut down and backed up crude oil and refined products before the company could finally…
When COVID-19 hit, the energy industry, like most businesses, had to adapt to remote operations and in-person dealings on a digital platform. Companies that weren’t already…
