BP exec tells OTC audience about lessons learned in Gulf spill response
Even as BP continues to fight litigation that could result in it having to pay billions of dollars more in fines and damages stemming from the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a senior company official says the British oil giant has already gone “above and beyond” what the law requires. More »
Megaprojects change countries, but breed trouble
There is a growing number of oil megaprojects in the world that are so huge that they transform national economies and educational systems. But their size and complexity has led to costly problems. More »
Guest Commentary: Technology leads to abundant energy
Annell R. Bay, vice president of global exploration for Marathon Oil Corp., calls on the industry to commit to safe operations and to support math and science education, in order to optimize the modern U.S. energy revolution. More »
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Enron’s Jeff Skilling may get decade off sentence in U.S. deal
Jeffrey Skilling, the convicted former Enron Corp. chief executive, may get out of prison in four years if a federal judge approves a deal proposed by prosecutors that would allow the payment of more than $40 million to victims of one of the biggest financial frauds in U.S. history.
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Phillips 66 CEO: ‘By all metrics, we feel very good’
Phillips 66 CEO Greg Garland said he doesn’t expect the Keystone XL pipeline to gain U.S. approval this year and suggested regulators will need to “fix” requirements governing the blending of biofuels into gasoline. But Garland said neither of those issues are of serious concern to Phillips 66, which held its first shareholders meeting Wednesday. More »
Striking a pose at OTC
It’s an old but popular marketing technique; people like to have their picture taken, especially in front of a big drilling platform. More »
Have a beer, buy a crane
Liebherr is not a brand of beer. But if you didn’t know better, you’d swear it is. More »
The flip-flop brigade at OTC
The Offshore Technology Conference is huge. And the parking lot and train station is a long way away from the trade show floor. So smart women are coming into Reliant Park in flip-flops, sneakers and other comfy footwear. Then they pop into one of the bathrooms and trade out their comfort footwear for business pumps [...] More »
Q&A: BP technology chief discusses efforts to solve industry challenges
David Eyton, who will discuss value creation through global technology as part of an Offshore Technology Conference panel on Thursday, talked shop recently with FuelFix. More »
Gulf emergency spill equipment put to the test
A major shortcoming in the oil industry’s first full-scale deployment drills of emergency equipment meant to rein in runaway wells may be that the simulated wellheads deep in the Gulf of Mexico aren’t actually gushing oil and gas during those tests. More »
Technology monitors riser stress in real time
At the Offshore Technology Conference on Wednesday, Dan Kluk, a mechanical and systems engineer at Houston-based Stress Engineering Services, offered a paper on a real-time riser fatigue monitoring system that has been tested in deep waters. More »
The food truck craze hits OTC
Add food trucks to the list of things that people are lining up for at OTC this year. There are some new additions, along with old reliables like pizza and burgers. More »
April 26, 2013
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