Infill Thinking Lifting the O&G knowledge curve
Note: Each Friday in March, we are passing the keyboard to one of our readers to share perspective from the field. We hope you enjoy the thoughts these hand-picked contributors have to share. Here is this week’s story…
Why am I sitting in a hotel in Midland? It seems a fair question since I have spent most of my career working on subsea projects that are moving into deeper and deeper water with increasingly complex developments. I love this city, the people, the entrepreneurship, the “can do attitude” and good old fashioned Texas values, but, I’m a long way from my offshore oilfield roots.
It seems somewhat paradoxical on the surface. When I first started in the oil and gas business, I was a graduate looking for an interesting project when old Bob Clarke told me to do something useful and work on that “subsea stuff.” The rest of the company was working on land equipment and thought subsea equipment was just an R&D project. I heard many times that “subsea will never happen” but it did and, for many years, it has been the place to be for oil and gas innovators and investors.
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