Dr. E.G. "Skip" Ward, associate director of the Texas Engineering Experiment Station’s Offshore Technology Research Center, has been honored by the Minerals Management Service (MMS) and the Coasts, Oceans, Ports and Rivers Institute (COPRI).

More affordable gasoline prices could potentially be on the way now that construction has begun on a demonstration-scale facility that will further validate a Texas A&M process that transforms biomass into liquid fuels.

Dr. W. John Lee, Regents Professor and holder of the L.F. Peterson Endowed Chair in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering, has been appointed to serve on the Committee on Understanding the Impact of Selling the U.S. Helium Reserve.

Two researchers, two staff members and a member of the Energy Systems Laboratory were honored by the Texas Engineering Experiment Station (TEES), during the agencies spring meeting on May 13.