The State of Small Businesses Pre-and-Post COVID-19
COVID-19 had a significant impact on several industries in the U.S., with many businesses facing hardships, such as financial loss. Small businesses (SMBs) were among...
Oilwoman 2021 July-August
How an Oilman’s Daughter Helped Establish the United States’ First Offshore Wind Farm
“The silence was profound,” Barbara MacMullan recalls of the day Block Island switched from diesel generators to the first commercial offshore wind farm in the...
It’s Time to Fix the Broken Rung
I did not have many female role models when I started my career working as a field engineer on offshore oil rigs. So, I did...
Energy in Motion: Untapped Hydrokinetic Energy in the Water Around Us
The earth is perfect, and energy is always at our fingertips; that is the lesson to be learned from hydrokinetic energy. The motion found in...
America’s Energy Reliability, Part 2
Oil and gas pipelines are essential to our energy reliability, energy security and economic prosperity. When the Colonial Pipeline was shut down recently, America experienced...
Back to My Roots
In the past year, the energy geoscience community has experienced a proliferating trend of career transformations that are coincident with the evolving markets and global...
Letter from the Editor-in-Chief (July-August 2021)
In addition to a long career as a journalist, I became a petroleum landman (emphasis on “land” – feet firmly on the ground) 10 years...
Energy Trend – Solar & Wind
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Maintaining the Durability of Gas Turbines in a Corrosive Environment
A variety of contaminants, which are either chemical elements or compounds, enter a gas turbine engine. Some of the contaminants to gas turbines that are...