Ahh Thanksgiving – a time to give thanks for all those things we’re …well…thankful for. And its a time to show all those global “doubters” out there that the Americans can cook up some tasty food! Over the last two years I had the good fortune to spend my Thanksgiving holiday over-seas where each year …
Well it is end of days for Adobe’s Flash that is. The feud between Adobe and Apple has ended and by the looks of it – Apple won! Adobe has pulled the plug on Flash for all mobile devices. As it stands, Flash will no longer be developed for mobile devices and Adobe will shift …
This flash mob features a double play of Lady Gaga classics. Telephone and Bad Romance are performed by this mob in Madrid, the favorite Spanish city of my fellow Sweet Spots blogger, Guiri Alta. Given that Lady Gaga is the focus, this post is dedicated to our General Counsel at NEOS. He has been on the lookout for …
Since its inception in 1993, the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy has established itself as one of the leading nonpartisan public policy think tanks in the country. As an integral part of Rice University the Baker Institute has a strong track record of achievement based on the work of Rice University faculty …
I had the good fortune to be on ‘The Farm’ this week, where I had an opportunity to listen to a fascinating presentation by Stanford Professor Mark Zoback. Mark is a recognized expert in earthquakes. One of his initial claims to fame resulted from his multi-year study of the San Andreas fault. Whenever there is …
Disfrute su estadia (Enjoy your stay) is what’s written across my hotel room key, something that is very easily accomplished while in Mar del Plata, Argentina. Currently in its off season the city is typically tranquilo (calm), but this week the energy level is that of summer, with the Argentine Institute of Oil and Gas …
For the October 2011 issue of Geo ExPro, Jane Whaley interviewed NEOS President and CEO Jim Hollis to get his take on the current state of natural resource exploration, learn how simultaneously interpreting multiple geo-datasets can help deliver improved subsurface insights, and preview what lies ahead for the company in 2012 and beyond. Click on …
As if the cool Houston weather wasn’t enough to put us in a good mood, we were stoked to find out from our friends at Axiom (our marketing communications agency) that NEOS has been nominated by the Business Marketing Association (BMA) of Houston for several prestigious Lantern Awards. The BMA is a leading organization that …
I saw an interesting report today from MIT on The Future of Geothermal Energy in the U.S. It got me thinking back to the first ‘real job’ I ever had – in UNOCAL’s Geothermal Division. Our petroleum engineering curriculum required sophomores to work as roustabouts, the theory being that exposure to ‘real work’ (and real …
Edwin Laurentine “Colonel” Drake is popularly credited with being the first to drill for oil in the United States. Born in 1819, Drake was hired by the Seneca Oil Company to investigate suspected oil deposits near Titusville, Pennsylvania. In August of 1858, he was leading a crew that had reached a total depth of 69.5 …
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