For those of us who work in and around the oil and gas industry, we never get too far from the geology education we received as children – specifically, the study of the remnants of bygone eras that are trapped in the earth’s crust. Extracting...

While the geological features being explored by oil and gas drillers and operators are hundreds of millions of years old, the advances made by petroleum engineering research make up an ever-evolving science. 

The oil and gas industry faces great challenges. Diminishing reserves are forcing companies to operate in remote and hostile environments, while the cost of extracting energy has gone up steadily in recent years.