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Looking Back: SPE Young Professionals Generate Energy
Authors: Beugelsdijk Leon 
Published: April 2015

International Activities Update - The history and future of YP programs at SPE.
During the 2006 SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) in San Antonio, the Young Professionals Coordinating Committee (YPCC) will celebrate its first anniversary with confidence that it will continue to build on the strengths of the young members of the Society. The suggestion to create a committee looking at programs dedicated to young professionals originated in Stresa, Italy, in 2003 during the first international workshop under supervision of 2005 SPE President Giovanni Paccaloni. During the last year, 2006 SPE President Eve Sprunt has supported our group by suggesting a health, safety, and environment section in The Way Ahead. The growing support of the SPE leadership toward young members has also been shown by bringing SPE Board member Susan Howes in as a YPCC mentor. During the 2006 ATCE, Josh Etkind, a reservoir engineer for Shell and cofounder of the YPCC, will take over from me as Chairperson. With that, an exciting year comes to an end for me personally, although I will continue to contribute to and support the YPCC as the past chairperson for the next year.
Gender Diversity and Innovation
Authors: Thomas Tony 
Published: April 2015

What's Ahead
Comments from TWA Editor Tony Thomas.
How many of you have thought about the value add of gender diversity to innovation, or have thought about the phrases "gender diversity" and "innovation" in the same context? Diversity in the workplace and a "genderless" environment are areas that companies are looking into. Not simply because they are nice buzz words to have but for the fact that there is untapped potential in having a diverse workforce working together for the greater benefit of the industry. The shades of differing perspectives that are brought into the business mix by gender diversity just makes it an imperative. As innovation tops the strategic agenda of companies across the world, people—diverse in gender, ready for action, and working synergistically in teams—form the core that would lead to the realization of this strategy.
Gas is the New Oil: What Does It Mean for Young Professionals?
Authors: Verhoef Matthijs , Roberts Tyler , Chalbaud Carlos 
Published: April 2015

Forum - What will a shift from oil to gas mean for young professionals?
Forty-two SPE young professional and student members, in various geographical regions and technical disciplines, were surveyed by TWA on the effect of the increasing importance of gas production on young professionals’ careers. In addition, several industry leaders were consulted to gain perspective into the nature of today’s oil and gas business.
Natural gas is one of the cleanest and safest natural energy resources. It is a combustible mixture of hydrocarbon gases, primarily methane, and can include ethane, propane, butane, and pentane. It was discovered thousands of years ago in the Middle East, where ignited (probably by lightning) gas seeps were found, and provided fuel for the eternal flames of the fire-worshipping ancient Persians. Around 1000 BC, one of the gas seeps in ancient Greece was selected as the site for a temple that housed a priestess known as the Oracle of Delphi.
It was not until 1821 that the first well specifically intended to obtain natural gas was dug near New York by William Hart, a few years ahead of the dawn of the oil industry. Gas transportation remained a major issue for a long time. After World War II, pipeline infrastructure boomed and new uses for natural gas were discovered. Competition characterizes the natural gas industry today. Increased efficiency and technological improvements have resulted in natural gas being obtained more efficiently, cheaply, and easily than before. However, the search for more natural gas to meet a growing demand requires new techniques and knowledge to obtain it from hard-to-reach places.
Work/Life Balance in the 21st Century
Authors: Dragani Jarrett 
Published: April 2015

Soft Skills - A survey looking at work/life balance in the 21st century.
Work to live, or live to work? Working hard, getting the job done, and having a fulfilled life at home—can we really have it all? In a globalized world where business never stops and nearly all our business tools enable constant communication, where do we draw the line between work and leisure? In addition, what impact does separation between work and leisure have on our performance, job satisfaction, and wellbeing? These intriguing questions were among those posed to participants in The Way Ahead’s global survey in an attempt to investigate and contrast work/life balances found in the oil and gas industry compared with other industries.
The Concept of Work/Life Balance
Work/life balance is a concept that significantly affects the health and happiness of one’s life. The concept rests on your agenda for demarcating the amount of time you spend with work and the amount of time you spend in leisurely pursuits, where leisure is everything outside the scope of your work. Work/life balance is an area of research dating back to the 1960s. In fact, it began as a topic of study in management as an attempt to formulate working conditions that maximized productivity for industrial companies. It has often been a theme of political and social discussion, and it is important to realize that different societies have different perceptions about what a suitable work/life balance is.
The Appeal of Mature Fields
Authors: Willis Todd B. 
Published: April 2015

What's Ahead - Final column from 2013’s TWA editor-in-chief, Todd Willis.
Ask most YPs what they want in their career, and you’re likely to hear descriptors like “cutting-edge,” “major project,” or “new development.” Ask us where we want to work, and locations like Houston, London, or Dubai might come to mind. You probably won’t hear us wanting to tend to 5-B/D stripper wells in the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico, or be a field engineer in Baku, Azerbaijan, one of the world’s earliest major energy hubs.
Upon initial consideration, these places seem unimportant—not the sexy, cutting-edge future of the oil field. They are where the action was 50 years ago, a relic, interesting to read about in history books, but certainly not to work in. The real technology and capital spending—or so the thinking goes—is in deep water or unconventional gas fields. Indeed, TWA focused this year’s first issue on deepwater plays and the technology required to operate in these areas.
On closer inspection, though, the level of ongoing investment into mature assets and their significance to the operations of companies large and small show that this initial impression just doesn’t hold up.
Many operators have invested tens and even hundreds of millions of dollars into sustaining or revitalizing older assets. Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems and i-Field (intelligent-field) efforts enable an engineer sitting at a desk hundreds of miles away to monitor entire fields single-handedly. Waterfloods, steam floods, polymer floods, infill drilling programs, horizontal side-tracks—all of these enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and improved recovery projects bring tens of millions of dollars of investment capital to these so-called oilfield “relics.” They also bring with them the need for project managers, financial analysts, and talented engineers who can maximize return on investment.
Interview with Martin Craighead
Authors: Craighead Martin 
Published: April 2015

The Way Ahead Interview - Interview with Martin Craighead, chairman and CEO of Baker Hughes.
What attracted you to the service sector of our industry?
When I spoke to our 200-plus interns [this summer], I explained to them that when I was in their shoes I followed what my gut was telling me, which was to pursue a service company career versus an E&P [exploration and production] career. I was comfortable in what I sensed to be a more commercially intensive environment [in a service company] versus a long-term engineering environment [in an E&P company]. A lot of logic can be presented to rationalize an E&P career. In fact, I believe 80% of my colleagues began their careers with an E&P company. It is hard to say how things would have turned out otherwise, but I followed my gut and I am glad I made this decision. The key is to trust your instincts and avoid over-intellectualizing the decision.
Thinking back to when you started working in the oil and gas industry, can you think of specific decisions and/or relationships that had a lasting impact in your career?
When I was a student [at Pennsylvania State University] and over the course of the first few years of my career, maintaining relationships to the degree of publishing technical papers with my professors gave me the confidence I needed in an otherwise intimidating workforce environment. People can be overwhelmed when they are surrounded by experts with a great deal of experience and academic reputations. Having that conduit back to trusted professors while I was a junior engineer in the R&D [research and development] function at BJ Services made it a nice transition, a tieback to a world that was familiar to me as I entered a world I was not so familiar with. I was also fortunate enough to form genuine relationships with my bosses early in my career. I found my first boss in this new environment to be of high integrity, and he was also very supportive and committed to my success. He created a learning environment that was very constructive. Had I been just one of many engineers and/or was in a hands-off culture, I don’t think I would have flourished in such a positive way.
The Power of Small When the Small Is Really Big
Authors: Tohami Mohamed 
Published: April 2015

HR Discussion - Success is usually achieved by doing small things consistently.
Think big! Have you heard this motivational advice before? It sounds nice, it seems to make sense. However, when you really think about it, the small is usually bigger than the big. One day, I was reading a very interesting article by Laura Vanderkam, titled “How to Change Your Life Before Breakfast.” Her insight was an eye opener. She claims you really can change your life by making the best use of the couple of hours before breakfast. She believes early mornings are the secret key to building habits that will make us happier, more productive, and successful—exercising, doing spiritual practices, reading, writing, for instance. Laura’s insight led me to think of the power of the small: Success is usually achieved by doing small things–consistently. It’s not always easy to get out of a comfortable bed to hit the gym. We are always encouraged to think big and have big dreams. Indeed, it’s important. However, a person often gets stuck when it comes to getting started. Having a big goal can paralyze you. When it looks big, it’s difficult to know when, where, or how to start. The hard truth is that if you don’t start, you’ll never get where you want to go. When you have a big goal, don’t just think about how you’re going to achieve it. Focus on doing one small action that gets you started. It could be any action in any direction. It doesn’t really matter. The most important thing is to get the ball rolling and start building momentum.
Reflections: The Last Decade and the Next Decade
Authors: Jadhav Pradeep B. , Kshirsagar Lalitkumar K. 
Published: April 2015

Economist's Corner - The past technology-driven decade and the economic challenges ahead.
For the oil and gas industry, the last decade (2003 to 2013) has been one of “resilience, extraordinary innovation, and, despite setbacks, significant gains in safety and environmental conformance,” according to Paal Kibsbaard, chief executive officer of Schlumberger, in his report “A Decade of Upstream Technology Innovation” included in the World Petroleum Council’s 80th Anniversary Edition report (2013). The industry remains strong, after sustaining humanity’s supply of oil and gas and thereby meeting more than half the global energy needs throughout the decade. In the June 2010 issue of the Journal of Petroleum Technology, Behrooz Fattahi, 2010 SPE president, said the industry has been focusing on the concept of sustainability or its components “for a long time, but under different descriptive terms—optimizing production, maximizing reserves, reducing cost, cutting waste, increasing efficiency, optimizing processes, minimizing footprint, maximizing safety, reducing environmental impact, and increasing corporate social responsibility.” Sensitivity to all these factors is required when looking back on the industry’s last 10 years and looking ahead to the next 10 years. The oil and gas industry has always been a risky business for many reasons—from geophysics to geopolitics.
The Way Ahead for US Unconventional Reservoirs
Authors: Ozkan Erdal 
Published: April 2015

Academia - How to understand the complexities of unconventional reservoirs.
For the oil and gas industry, the last decade (2003 to 2013) has been one of “resilience, extraordinary innovation, and, despite setbacks, significant gains in safety and environmental conformance,” according to Paal Kibsbaard, chief executive officer of Schlumberger, in his report “A Decade of Upstream Technology Innovation” included in the World Petroleum Council’s 80th Anniversary Edition report (2013). The industry remains strong, after sustaining humanity’s supply of oil and gas and thereby meeting more than half the global energy needs throughout the decade. In the June 2010 issue of the Journal of Petroleum Technology, Behrooz Fattahi, 2010 SPE president, said the industry has been focusing on the concept of sustainability or its components “for a long time, but under different descriptive terms—optimizing production, maximizing reserves, reducing cost, cutting waste, increasing efficiency, optimizing processes, minimizing footprint, maximizing safety, reducing environmental impact, and increasing corporate social responsibility.” Sensitivity to all these factors is required when looking back on the industry’s last 10 years and looking ahead to the next 10 years. The oil and gas industry has always been a risky business for many reasons—from geophysics to geopolitics.
Plurilingual Learners’ Beliefs and Practices Toward Native and Nonnative Language Mediation during Learner-Learner Interaction
Authors: Payant Caroline 
Published: April 2015

Abstract:Due to the growing number of plurilingual learners in the world today (Hammarberg, 2010), the present multiple case study examines four plurilingual participants’ beliefs toward first language (L1) and second language (L2) mediation in the acquisition of French as a third language (L3). During a 16-week classroom-based study in a French university language class in central Mexico, four Spanish (L1) – English (L2) participants completed eight collaborative pedagogic tasks and participated in four in-depth one-on-one interviews. A qualitative analysis of the focal participants’ beliefs about L1 and L2 mediation in the acquisition of an L3 was conducted and their beliefs were compared to task performance gathered from task-based learner–learner interaction. Findings suggest that both native and non-native languages serve cognitive and social functions during task completion but that individual differences are subject to previous factors including educational experiences, language proficiency, and context of language learning.
On English Speakers’ Ability to Communicate Emotion in Mandarin
Authors: Jian Hua-Li 
Published: April 2015

Abstract:The ability of Mandarin learners to express emotion in Mandarin has received little attention. This study examines how English L1 users express emotions in Mandarin and how this expression differs from that of Mandarin L1 users. Scenarios were adopted to elicit joy, anger, sadness, fear, and neutrality. Both groups articulated anger, joy, and fear with a high pitch. Both groups also employed high intensity for anger and joy and low intensity for sadness and fear. Learners generally employed larger F0 ranges than native speakers, particularly for anger and fear. Learners articulated level tones with lengthened duration and contour tones with shortened duration, affecting the correctness of the portrayal of emotions. Learners used a similar intensity range for all emotions, whereas native speakers tended to vary the intensity with different emotions. The results have implications for teaching Mandarin as a second language with special reference to prosodic naturalness in expressing emotions.
Body As Subject, Body As Object: Percival P. Puppet, in Conversation
Authors: DePloom Noam 
Published: April 2015

Abstract: A satirical interview with Percival P. Puppet, actor, director, and producer of Seven Easy Puppet Pieces, a video performance project executed by his “Marina Abramović Institute Department of Puppets.” In conversation with Noam DePloom * , Percival reflects on the current state of performance art in light of practices of re-performance, his career spent exploring the limits of the puppetbody, and being the target of recent artist-on-artist litigation.
Marathon Theatre as Affective Labour: Productive Exhaustion inThe Godot CycleandLife and Times
Authors: Switzky Lawrence 
Published: April 2015

Abstract:Actors and audiences often imagine that marathon theatre, i.e., productions longer than four hours in duration, can transform perception and life practices through sustained collective attention. This essay investigates two marathon productions, Eric Craig and Caden Douglas’s The Godot Cycle and the Nature Theater of Oklahoma’s The Life and Times, as attempts to use marathon theatre to query affective labour, to create immaterial “products” through emotional and communicative acts, and to re-appropriate affective labour for artistic and self-directed ends. Voluntary physical and affective exhaustion during marathon productions can resist and re-appropriate exploitative labour practices while disabling conventional standards for calculating value. But the self-injury performers undertake also threatens to recapitulate the harm that their productions were designed to oppose.
Chew, Drink, and Spit: A Book Review
Authors: Morelli Didier 
Published: April 2015

Abstract: The performance entitled Chew, Drink and Spit: A Book Review took place in a studio in Vancouver, British Columbia, as a response to the 2012 publication of The Last Art College (MIT Press) by Canadian conceptual artist Garry Neil Kennedy. An urgent need was felt to address the typical ahistorical and nostalgic fashion with which Mr. Kennedy presented “his” period of conceptual art and pedagogy at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD) as the height of Canadian conceptualism and arts-based education. The action combined performance and book review. Sitting at a table, each page where Garry Neill Kennedy’s name appeared in his book was partially chewed and spitted back into a peanut butter container labelled “Last Art College.” This article explores whether the protesting body, as it consumed and regurgitated the “Last Art College,” can be read and interpreted as an embodied epistemology. Can flesh and embodied critique offer a new and different dynamic perspective on the “Last Art College” as the epitome of art serving as capital in a market-driven profession? Chew, Drink and Spit: A Book Review will serve as a point to discuss questions of historical critique within the socio-political and economic framework of the art school and university.
Unsustainable Acts of Love and Resistance: The Politics of Value and Cost in One-on-One Performances
Authors: Pearson Deborah 
Published: April 2015

Abstract: One-on-one performance, particularly those examples of the genre that take on a political perspective, offer theatre makers and -goers alike an alternative value, composed of a sense of importance, worth, or usefulness beyond the parameters of the stage. But does this conceptual value offset the genre’s inherent financial unsustainability? Exploring “value” versus “cost” in my 2012 site-specific collaboration with Allison Cummings, The Queen West Project, I will also be considering works from Adrian Howells and Jess Dobkin, to contend that politically themed one-on-one performances provide value precisely because their budgets do not fit into a comfortable capitalist model of exchange.
Unusual clinical case: extraluminal manifestation of a tapeworm from the eviscerated midline incision in a post-surgery patient
Authors: Dural Ahmet Cem , Celik Muhammet Ferhat , Temizgonul Baha , Unsal Mustafa Gokhan , Akarsu Cevher , Gonenc Murat , Kalayci Mustafa Uygar , Alis Halil 
Published: April 2015

Taenia saginata infestation is one of the most common cestode infestations in humans, that may cause gastrointestinal tract related complications as a result of obstruction, perforation or anastomotic leakage. A 55-year-old male patient who was receiving palliative chemotherapy for stage IV gastric cancer was admitted to the emergency department for abdominal pain. A hollow viscus organ perforation was diagnosed and an emergency surgery was performed. On postoperative day 5, the patient’s midline incision eviscerated and a moving taenia emerged, with abundant particulated fluid from the incision line. The patient was admitted for abdominal surgery due to suspected bowel perforation. During the abdominal exploration, a relaxed purse stitch of the feeding tube was observed and no other bowel perforations were seen. The patient underwent two planned surgery for abdominal cavity lavage after the removal of cestode. Unfortunately, the patient died sixteen days after his admission to the intensive care unit. This is the first case describing an extraluminal manifestation of a tapeworm in a midline incision from evisceration without intestinal perforation.
Surface mass balance contributions to acceleration of Antarctic ice mass loss during 2003–2013
Authors: Seo Ki‐Weon , Wilson Clark R. , Scambos Ted , Kim Baek‐Min , Waliser Duane E. , Tian Baijun , Kim Byeong‐Hoon , Eom Jooyoung 
Published: April 2015

AbstractRecent observations from satellite gravimetry (the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) mission) suggest an acceleration of ice mass loss from the Antarctic Ice Sheet (AIS). The contribution of surface mass balance changes (due to variable precipitation) is compared with GRACE‐derived mass loss acceleration by assessing the estimated contribution of snow mass from meteorological reanalysis data. We find that over much of the continent, the acceleration can be explained by precipitation anomalies. However, on the Antarctic Peninsula and other parts of West Antarctica, mass changes are not explained by precipitation and are likely associated with ice discharge rate increases. The total apparent GRACE acceleration over all of the AIS between 2003 and 2013 is −13.6 ± 7.2 Gt/yr2. Of this total, we find that the surface mass balance component is −8.2 ± 2.0 Gt/yr2. However, the GRACE estimate appears to contain errors arising from the atmospheric pressure fields used to remove air mass effects. The estimated acceleration error from this effect is about 9.8 ± 5.8 Gt/yr2. Correcting for this yields an ice discharge acceleration of −15.1 ± 6.5 Gt/yr2.