Rebecca Torrellas, online editor, reports from the NAPE Expo in Houston. Operators continue to focus on technologies that will monetize unconventional reserves.

Two lawsuits with potentially damaging consequences stir contractors to action.

Information portals are seen as part of a viable solution to integration/collaboration challenges.

Invensys president sees further morphing of control vendors into information technology providers.

OptoSeis system to be further developed for ultra-high channel count onshore applications.

The latest version of Petrel analyzes risk as well as improve exploration.

Multicomponent seismic offers processing and interpretation challenges as well as added cost. But it might be critical in plays like the Bakken.

To remove any hint of a conflict of interest, the US Minerals Management Service’s regulatory duties will be separated from its royalty collection.

The SEG Foundation has founded Geoscientists Without Borders to apply the science of geophysics to aid humanity.

Going from a 32-bit to a 64-bit computing architecture—i.e., one in which operating system and software run on a 64-bit central processing unit—makes working with large data sets easier.