The Peripatetic Engineer

There is an interesting news item out of Dubai. It is all over the Middle East news organizations but it is very difficult to find any menti...

Shell has set a new oil industry record by drilling and completing a subsea well in 9,356’ of water. This is the deepest well ever drilled....

Is your subsea manifold a little bent out of shape? This may be why.

I just heard of the untimely death of a friend of mine. I worked with him for over 20 years. And he was younger than me. You expect the old ...

My wife decided to host Thanksgiving Dinner at our house this year. As the oldest of nine, the family gatherings can be fairly large. She sp...

The Gulf News brings us a story of the solution to illegal dumping by vacuum truck operators. It seems that the truck drivers have been dump...

I cannot count the number of times I have received emails from Nigerian 419 scammers . I thought I had seen all of the permutations of the l...