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Ian Ball, Chairman, INTECSEA, UK
John Walsh, Shell Exploration and Production Co.
Paul Jones, Chevron
Kenneth E. Arnold, Worley Parsons
Joseph Lee, Process System Division, Cameron
Howard Duhon, Gate LLC
Simon Richards, Procyon Oil and Gas
Jim Collins, Peer-Review Editor, ConocoPhillips
John Walsh, Shell Exploration and Production, chairman
Kenneth E. Arnold, Worley Parsons
David Aron, Petroleum Development Consultants
Adam Ballard, BP America Inc.
John Barnes, Universal Pegasus
Murray Burns, Technip USA
Mike Choi, ConocoPhillipsCo.
Simon Davies, Statoilhydro ASA
Duane Devall, Krebs Engineers
Howard Duhon, Gate LLC
Wael F. Ellaithy, IPR Energy Red Sea Inc.
Ted Frankiewicz, Spec Services Inc.
Wally Georgie, Maxoil Solutions Ltd.
Tom Hewett, Krebs Engineers
Robert Hubbard, John M. Campbell
Mike Jones, Metal Building Inc.
Paul Jones, Chevron ETC
Sunil Kokal, Saudi Aramco
Gene Kouba, Chevron ETC
Norm McMullen, BP America Inc.
John Mihm, JCM Consulting Services
Simon Richards, EPConsult Ltd.
John D. Rogers, Fusion Reservoir Engineering
Cem Serica, U. of Tulsa
Hariprasad J. Subramani, Chevron Corp.
Hardy Thomas, SBM Atlanta
Sally A. Thomas, ConocoPhillips Co.
Eric Van Dijk, SBM-Imodco Inc.
John Walsh
Shell Exploration
and Production
As SPE Technical Director for Projects, Facilities, and Construction, it is my great pleasure to tell you about a new SPE magazine specifically for our discipline – Oil and Gas Facilities.
The idea for this magazine was born in May 2011 during a meeting of our Projects, Facilities, and Construction (PFC) Advisory Committee. This committee is made up of industry volunteers and SPE staff. We recognized that SPE is providing many good programs in our discipline – workshops, Distinguished Lecturers, conference sessions, study groups, and so on – but many PFC specialists don’t view SPE as their professional home. This magazine will help change that perception.
We also recognized the dramatic increase in complexity and technical challenge facing our discipline. Several years ago, developments such as major offshore projects, deepwater, and subsea tie-backs provided the justification for the PF&C discipline within SPE. Today, new developments have dramatically increased the demands of our discipline -- intense IOR/EOR activity, ultra deep water, subsea processing, unconventional gas (fracturing), stranded gas (gas to liquids, floating LNG), sour hydrocarbons, remote locations, harsh environments, water handling issues, etc.. SPE, with guidance from industry leaders, is responding to this greater need for technical information and knowledge sharing in our discipline.
Oil and Gas Facilities, which began bimonthly publication in February, focuses on the projects, systems, and technologies of facilities engineering. Feature articles give timely reports on PFC-related news, technical advances, and people. Oil and Gas Facilities replaces the peer-reviewed journal SPE Production, Facilities, & Construction, but each issue of the new magazine includes several peer-reviewed technical papers in a special section.
I am delighted to be serving alongside some of the most distinguished professionals in our discipline on the Oil and Gas Facilities Editorial Board: Ian Ball, Technology Director, INTECSEA, UK, chairman; Paul Jones, Technology Center Manager, Chevron; Kenneth E. Arnold, Senior Technical Advisor, Worley Parsons; Joseph Lee, Director, Process Solutions Group, Process System Division, Cameron; Howard Duhon, Systems Engineering Manager, Gate LLC; Simon Richards, Senior Facilities Consultant, Procyon Oil and Gas; and Jim Collins, Principal Development Engineer, ConocoPhillips (Peer-Review Editor)
SPE members can subscribe to this new bimonthly magazine at a special introductory price of USD 39. Subscribe on your 2012 dues statement or, if you have already paid your dues, by ordering a subscription at www.spe.org/go/ogf.
Oil and Gas Facilities promises to be the industry’s most important periodical serving production, facilities, and construction professionals. Subscribe now so that you don’t miss a single issue.
