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STEPHEN I. CHAZEN, SPE, Occidental Petroleum Corporation’s president and chief executive officer (CEO), was elected chairman of the American Petroleum Institute’s board of directors. This elected 1-year position was effective 1 January 2014. He has more than 40 years’ industry experience. Chazen joined Occidental Petroleum in 1994 as executive vice president–corporate…

Lamprell completed construction of the jackup rig Jindal Star for Jindal Pipes to be used offshore India. The Jindal Star, weighing 10,500 metric tons, is a LeTourneau Super 116E rig with a self-elevating 477-ft leg design.

Compania Espanola de Petroleos entered into a definitive merger agreement to acquire Coastal Energy for an aggregate value of approximately USD 2.2 billion. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of 2014.

For this column, I have elected to do a book review on Risk Society by Ulrich Beck in which he argued that we are in the midst of a major cultural change in Western society.

Produced water is an inextricable part of the oil- and gas-recovery process, and it is by far the largest-volume waste stream associated with oil and gas recovery.

In terms of platform technologies and extraction strategies, there are fundamental differences between the North Sea and the deepwater Gulf of Mexico (GOM).

The objective of this paper is to detail how water quality and injection pressure are deduced when uncertainties of input data are considered.

Many strategies have been implemented to mitigate the problem of high water-production rates seen in mature fields.

Members of SPE continue to share valuable and useful information through the more than 90 papers on reserves and asset management presented at various meetings, symposiums, and workshops this past year.

The Guidelines for Application of the Petroleum Resources Management System (AG) document was issued in November 2011.