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As oil prices recover from the low point of the downturn, operators in the Permian and the Bakken are tackling water management issues.

FLIR Systems appointed Jim Cannon president and CEO. Cannon previously served for more than 16 years in a variety of senior leadership positions at Stanley Black and Decker, most recently as president of Stanley Security North American and Emerging Markets. Priort to that, he was president of the company's industrial and automotive repair business united, first in Nor…

Mike McCauley, SPE, operations general manager, Arena Offshore, was appointed to the board of directors of the National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) for the 2017–2018 term. He joined Arena in 2007 as a production manager and became operations general manager in 2012. Before joining Arena, he held positions in production, drilling, and reservoir engineering at N…

Birol Dindoruk, SPE, principal technical expert and team leader at Shell International Exploration and Production Inc., and the incoming SPE technical director for Management and Information, was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering for his significant theoretical and practical contributions to enhanced oil recovery (EOR) and CO2 sequestration. H…

The offshore drilling sector has taken a step towards consolidating an oversupplied market and Ensco will emerge from this most recent deal as the owner of the largest combined fleet of floaters and jackups.

Finding the right person for the right job requires a strong organizational approach, and personality traits should play a role in the evaluation of prospective managers.

If an organization has a culture that implicitly or explicitly rewards short-term productivity, what happens to safety numbers? Up or down? And why is that?

Santos appointed Vanessa Guthrie as an independent nonexecutive director on its board of directors. Guthrie has experience in the mining industry across a variety of roles, including operations, environment, community, indigenous affairs, corporate development, and sustainability. She was previous a managing director and CEO of Toro Energy Limited and VP of sustainabl…

Manfred Vonlanthen has been named CEO of Swire Oilfield Services, a supplier of cargo carrying units to the offshore energy industry. Vonlanthen joined the company in 2014 as general manager for its Norwegian division before becoming director of its North Sea operations last September. In addition to managing the North Sea business, he served on Swire's executive mana…

BP named Melody Meyer to its board of directors. Meyer retired from Chevron on 1 June 2016 after 37 years with the company. She is the former president of Chevron Asia Pacific Exploration and Production and has experience in global upstream operations, strategic and business planning, and major capital projects such as the Tengiz project in Kazakhstan. She was vice pr…