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Wood Group has appointed Grant Angus as chief financial officer for its specialist technical solutions business. Angus moves into the role from his position as vice president of finance and administration for Wood Group’s Asset Life Cycle Solutions business in Europe. Before joining Wood Group in 2012 as group head of internal audit, he spent 15 years working for KPMG…

The recent upswing in M&As in the oilfield services sector may be a harbinger of more to come as operators push for capex and opex control.

CNOOC appointed Yuan Guangyu as chief executive officer. Yuan joined CNOOC in 1982, and in his time with the organization he has served in a number of roles. In November 2006, he was named assistant president of CNOOC. In February 2009, he became executive vice president. From April 2013 to June 2016, he served as director, vice party secretary, and party secretary of…

SPE is inviting comment on a draft proposal of a new resources management system. In March 2016, the SPE Board of Directors approved moving forward with work on a Geologic Storage Resources Management System by a subcommittee of the Carbon Dioxide Capture, Utilization, and Storage Technical Section. The subcommittee has completed a draft, which establishes technically…

Optimizing laterals by integrating data from many sources to address reservoir variability and structural challenges can increase shale well productivity.

Three major finds have shattered assumptions about what is possible in the most explored parts of Alaska’s North Slope.

The newly launched Unmanned Systems Technical Section will provide a central hub for questions, answers, discussion, collaboration, and networking around unmanned marine, air, and land vehicle systems, software solutions, and power systems for the oil and gas industry. Unmanned systems include remotely operated, autonomous surface, autonomous underwater, unmanned unde…

CGE Subsea named Jon Arve Sværen as its new chairman of the board for subsea. Sværen is currenty vice president of business strategy processing at OneSubsea. He has also served as vice president of processing system sales for the company. Sværen's appointment was made along with the appointment of several others to GCE Subsea's board of directors: Tove Ormevik, offsho…

Three experts from different sectors discussed the challenge of methane and regulation at the first panel session of the 2017 SPE Health, Safety, Security, Environment, and Social Responsibility Conference–North America in New Orleans.

A new material under development is highly effective at sieving carbon dioxide from natural gas streams and is also cheap and easy to make, according to researchers.