KPRC TV Thousands in Houston for Offshore Technology Conference Each year, the Offshore Technology Conference brings the world to Houston to see the latest drilling technology. It is also a pretty good measure of the health of the oil industry. This year, business is good. More than 70,000 visitors from 100 countries are packing Reliant Park this year. It's the kind of crowd that hasn't been seen at OTC since the boom days of the 1970's. [view]
Rigzone The Great Crew Change Meets Eco-Drilling: Disappearing Roads "I feel like the Disappearing Roads Competition is especially important because we, as a country, are going to be using oil and natural gas for a long time to come and we need to continue to explore ways to make the extraction process as effective and efficient as possible while also minimizing the impact on the environment." [read more]
Texas A&M College of Science 12 Impacts: The Energetic George Mitchell The same kind of energy that drove Mitchell's success in the oil and gas industry has been harnessed to achieve great things in other fields as well. In 1974, Mitchell unveiled a new 25,000-acre master-planned city north of downtown Houston called The Woodlands, which was praised as a hub of intellectual pursuits, scientific research and environmentally conscious design. He later founded the Houston Advanced Research Center -- a collaboration of eight universities and related research groups dedicated to the principles of sustainable development. [read more]