Technology gets the credit for success

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An executive shares how having a 'front row seat' to the progress of technology delivered a greater appreciation for the progress made by the oil and gas industry. Technology "has been the common denominator" that has powered the oil and gas industry to its current status in the world's economy and will be vital for its future, according to the president of ExxonMobil's XTO Energy Inc. unit. "Think about the ingenuity and tenacity that it has taken to develop technological solutions to tackle" the industry's challenges, said Sara Ortwein at an IPAA Leaders in Industry Luncheon July 27 at the Fort Worth Petroleum Club in Texas. Oil and gas have created "innovations that have transformed our nation and the world for the better," she said.