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ugmented reality is a new com-

A munication tool that brings the print and digital worlds closer together.

Scanning a page with a smart phone or smart device reveals additional “hidden”

PUBLISHING & MARKETING content.

Chairman

Interactive print campaigns are slowly

Editor’s Column

Shaun Wymes [email protected] spreading into the oil & gas industry. We

President/Publisher have incorporated 2D matrix barcodes Colloquy

Brion Palmer (quick recognition, QR codes) in prior

Nina RachNina Rach [email protected]

Associate Publisher issues to link to websites.

Neil Levett

Beginning with this issue, Offshore [email protected]

EnergyQuest and the

Engineer will offer extra animated edito-

EDITORIAL rial content.

Editor

Nina Rach

OE’s interactive content in the print

Court of Last Resort [email protected] magazines can be accessed using the

Managing Editor aising awareness of the energy industry Technology; Politics & Geography; and Demand (free) Actable app for smart phones and

Audrey Leon [email protected] needs to begin long before students are & Economics. In the case of a tie, additional

R tablets. Designed by Quad/Graphics, the

European Editor enrolled in college. questions were available for a Sudden Death app can be uploaded to Android devices

Elaine Maslin

The World Affairs Council of Houston recently round, but that was not necessary in this year’s running the 4.0 operating system and [email protected]

Associate Editor held its fourth annual EnergyQuest competition competition. higher. It is available from Google Play:

Sarah Parker Musarra for Houston-area public and private high school If a team decided to challenge the wording 11MB, updated 21 Dec 2013. The Actable [email protected] students, testing their knowledge of the global or scoring of any question (and a few did), they app is also available for Apple devices

Web Editor

Anthresia McWashington energy industry. were able to appeal to the “Court of Last Resort,” running iOS 6.0 or later. This includes [email protected]

WAC-Houston developed the event in 2010, which was judged by Julian Lamborn, Master iPhone (it’s optimized for iPhone5), iPad,

Contributing Editors said Education Program Of? cer Ivana Situm. Docent for the Wiess Energy Hall at the Houston and iTouch. Visit the iTunes story, 30MB.

Meg Chesshyre

Eugene Gerden

The questions are international in scope, testing Museum of Natural of Science.

Special icons indicate the type of con-

Fernando Hernandez students on technology, as well as economic and I was impressed by the success rate of the tent (this issue contains video and easy

Editorial Intern

Greg App political aspects of energy, in all its forms: fossil winning teams in each round; top teams often

PECOM conference registration on fuels, renewables, types of power (nuclear, fuel scored 17-18 correct out of 20 questions. This is p. 67) and we will roll out additional

ART AND PRODUCTION

Bonnie James cells, electric cars). In the oil & gas sector, this the next generation of energy professionals!

icons in the coming months. We are

Marlin Bowman included questions on chemical attributes of fuels, Individual players on the top three teams building toward a totally interactive issue

CONFERENCES & EVENTS vessels, NOCs, IOCs, and service companies. received medals; the winning team received a in October. Look for the icons and start

Events Coordinator

Teams (of up to 10 students) were expected trophy and the winning teacher or school, a $500 scanning today!

Jennifer Granda [email protected] to prepare for the competition by reading the cash prize. First place: Dulles High School;

UTEC Geomarine provides a video of

Exhibition/Sponsorship Sales material posted three month earlier at wachouston. second place: Foster High School; third place: its geoROV system during a geotechni-

John Lauletta [email protected] org. The material–29 articles–was drawn from a Carnegie Vanguard.

cal investigation, accessible on p. 30. variety of sources, including articles published The Houston EnergyQuest event was spon-

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