Global Technology Consultant George King, who has worked with Energy Ventures on several projects, will be honored at the 2012 Engineer of the Year Banquet, held during Engineers Week on February 23rd in Houston.

Engineers Week 2012 will take place February 19-25th. For more information, click here.

Energy Ventures was recently featured in an article on the Houston Chronicle's energy blog, FuelFix. Jim Sledzik, partner and president of the Houston office, met with reporter Simone Sebastian to discuss the ripe investment opportunity the company is seeing in Houston. Click here to read the full article.

Produced Water Absorbents was the focus of a recent RigZone article entitled "Absorbent Glass Provides Solution for Flowback Water Treatment". The article reviews how PWA's Osorb technology can be used to help companies recycle flowback water in an effort to improve resource recovery. CEO Stephen Spoonamore also provides an in-depth look into the technology and its numerous applications within the oil and gas value chain. Click here to read the full article.

Jim Sledzik, Energy Ventures Partner and President in the Houston office will be participating in Licensing Executives Society IP100 Executive Form in Jan. 30-31, 2012, as a panelist during the "How to Think Like a VC" workshop. To view the agenda, please click here .

Greg Herrera, partner in Energy Ventures' Aberdeen Office will speak at Finding Petroleum's "New Technologies for Accessing, Listening to, and Producing From, Your Reservoir" conference on January 24 in Aberdeen. Representatives from Energy Ventures portfolio companies Ziebel AS and Foster Findlay Associates (ffA) will also contribute. The conference, organized in association with Energy Ventures, will demonstrate some of the most interesting new technology being developed by small companies, and discuss how to get it used. To read more about the conference and presenters, click here .

Fotech Solutions recently introduced a new cutting edge technology which prevents cable theft from railroads. This new technology offers a solution which will help with thousands of lost hours in delays and huge costs due to theft. To view the video, click here .

The growing use of Ingrain's digital rock physics technology, as well as the value of the technology as a whole, was the subject of an article in the latest issue of the Pittsburgh Business Times. The article entitled "Digital rock physics offers shale rock insight at molecular level" describes Ingrain's technology and how digital rock physics is "one of the most exciting emerging technologies in oil and gas development." To read the article in its entirety, please click the link below.

Energy Ventures' Technology Advisory Board member Vik Rao contributed an article to the American Oil & Gas Reporter . Titled “Gas Positioned to Displace Coal Plants," the article discusses how shale gas has changed the game not only for the natural gas industry, but for the power generation sector as well. To read the full article, click here .

A technical paper by Ingrain team members was published in the Society of Exploration Geophysicists' November 11, 2011 issue of Geophysics. The paper, titled "Relevance of Computational Rock Physics," concludes that computational rock physics using modern imaging and computing techniques opens a new avenue to quantify and understand rock. To read the full paper, click on the link below.

Michael Lambert, president and COO of Wireless Seismic , presented "Wireless Progresses" at Finding Petroleum's Total 3D Seismic Onshore - A Disruptive Transition forum. Wireless Seismic has introduced a solution to the marketplace that both eliminates cables while preserving the real-time nature of the seismic data collection, and doing so with an architecture that is designed to scale-up to very high channel count systems. The presentation reviews the initial results of field deployments using this architecture in both remote and urban environments. To view a video of the presentation, please click here .