Ian Webster and Mark Landress of Project Navigator, Ltd. delivered two separate talks on oil field remediation topics at the 21st International Petroleum Environmental Conference held in Houston, Texas, October 14 to 16, 2014. Dr. Webster discussed the “soft science” of stakeholder management and approaches to improve trust between contentious parties during long and complex remediation projects, while Mr. Landress described methods and costs to remediate salt and produced water impacted surface soils at oil field sites.