A new form of learning is sweeping through the US higher education system in response to recent discoveries of how students learn best. A few
During the past ten years, thanks to hydraulic fracturing of horizontal wells and the high cost of crude oil, the U.S. has gone from being
I had the fascinating opportunity of meeting and listening to Dr. Michael Mann at Penn State University a few weeks ago as he explained how
Back in 2011, Shell Chemical received strong local support when it announced plans to build an ethylene and derivatives petrochemical complex based on the large
I still find it hard to believe. A friend of mine told me a year ago that he had just built a 350 MW solar
The workforce challenges faced today by the oil and gas industry’s Human Resources managers are very different from those of the past. The increasing number
Just before the required deadline of June 1, 2015, the EPA issued proposed percentage standards of renewable fuels for the years 2014 through 2016. The
Don’t take offense, but your audience does not hang on your every word when you deliver a business presentation. Research shows that people’s minds wander
With crude oil prices hovering around $50 – $60 per barrel, Sasol announced on Jan. 28 2015 that they are delaying a final investment decision
The twin technologies of directional drilling of wells and fracturing rock formations to stimulate recovery of oil and gas are widely known and have been
It has often been said that a CEO can quickly increase margins and the bottom line by slashing two divisions of a company: Product Development
How is it that US shale gas may end up in China as ethylene and propylene? Several Chinese companies have announced plans to build methanol
In the days of high gas prices in the US, 2003-08, many companies made easy money by taking advantage of price swings between the summer
The oil and gas industry has focused on building and implementing competency management systems and processes for decades – most notably, following
The objective of most businesses is to deliver a service or produce a product to make a profit. As competition and the market pressures increase,
Recently I was privileged to represent IHRDC at the International Petroleum Technology Conference in Kuala Lumpur as a co-author of a paper on this topic.
Plans are worthless, but planning is everything. That is how United States President Dwight Eisenhower explained his management philosophy as the Supreme Commander of the
The world’s first coal bed methane (CBM), or coal seam gas (CSG) as it is called in Australia, is the gas source for an LNG