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PUBLISHING & MARKETING

OE Opinion

Chairman

Shaun Wymes [email protected]

President/Publisher

Undercurrents

Brion Palmer [email protected]

Associate Publisher

Neil Levett [email protected]

Not it: The race to avoid being ? rst

EDITORIAL t almost every oil and gas industry the two industries. This year also marks the

Managing Editor conference there will undoubtedly ? rst-ever “d5” series at OTC, which will

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Audrey Leon be a panel discussion where someone will showcase disruptive technologies.

[email protected] make a wry remark about how unwilling While there is a common attitude that the

European Editor

Elaine Maslin operators are to be the ? rst. No, not the ? rst oil and gas industry moves at an appropri- [email protected] to produce oil or gas, but to adopt new tech- ate pace in terms of technological advances,

Web Editor nology. The oil and gas industry is the one there are occasions where failure to be the

Melissa Sustaita [email protected] industry where the goal is to be second. ? rst to try out a new technology could mean

Contributors There’s no true incentive to be the ? rst, millions of dollars wasted.

Meg Chesshyre because no one wants to be the company One of those times came for US opera-

Greg Hale

Heather Saucier that took a chance and failed. And, when it tor Stone Energy (See full story on page

Editorial Assistant comes to avoiding the next Macondo, that is 50). The company needed innovation. The

Jerry Lee an attitude that is understandable, yet some- Pompano ? eld features a subsea template

Editorial Intern

Greg App what defeatist. The oil and gas industry with a through-? owline tree system. One does many great things, and deploys some well had been out of production for about

ART AND PRODUCTION

Bonnie James of the best technologies of any industry, 10 years. Stone Energy was faced with

Verzell James including new innovations. But, there either replacing the entire kit, or ? nding

CONFERENCES & EVENTS should be more done to encourage innova- a solution that would allow ? exibility for

Events Coordinator tion and adoption of new technology. either risered or riserless intervention, and

Jennifer Granda [email protected] At next month’s Offshore Technology they eventually found it by working in

Exhibition/Sponsorship Sales

Conference (OTC) in Houston, NASA has collaboration with specialists to create that

Gisset Capriles been invited to showcase how its space solution. [email protected] technology – buoyancy, robotics, even Smaller companies might face large

PRINT arti? cial intelligence – could be applied to obstacles in the current downturn, but one

Quad Graphics, West Allis, Wisconsin, USA deepwater operations. OE has covered the bright spot is that these leaner companies are

EDITORIAL ADVISORS partnership between Deloitte and NASA able to take chances that some of the larger

John Chianis,

Houston O