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Tetra Technologies has appointed Matthew J. Sanderson as senior vice president. Sanderson previously spent the bulk of his 19-year career at Schlumberger, joining the company in 1997 as a field engineer and progressing through a series of managerial roles, including stints as a field services manager, country manager for Thailand, and a human resources manager for Sch…

Kraken Sonar, a marine technology company that specializes in underwater robotic systems, hired Jeff Bartkowski as director of business management. Bartkowski has spent 12 years working in marine technology, working primarily with subsea positioning, inertial navigation systems, and high resolution sonar products. He has sales and business experience with commercial a…

The oil and gas sector is an area primed for transformational development of its operations through new digital infrastructures, GE’s CEO said in an address to technological developers and company partners.

One of Oklahoma’s top government officials announced recently that it could be many more months before the full scope of the state’s regulatory response plan for induced seismicity is proven effective.

Jacqui Ferguson has joined Wood Group as a nonexecutive director on its board of directors. Ferguson, currently senior vice president and general manager of Hewlett-Packard UKI (United Kingdom and Ireland) and MEMA (Middle East, Mediterranean, and Africa), will also join the board’s nomination and audit committees. She has been in her current position since 2014. Prio…

Ali Moshiri will retire from his position of president at Chevron Africa and Latin America Exploration and Production (E&P) Company effective 1 January 2017. Moshiri has held various leadership roles at Chevron over the course of his 38-year career, including manager of petroleum and facilities engineering, general manager of strategic planning and assets evaluation f…

Liam Mallon has been elected president of ExxonMobil Development Company. Mallon, who currently serves as the company's executive vice president, joined Mobil in 1990 and held a variety of progressively senior positions before becoming operations manager in Nigeria in 1998. He served in the same capcity in Australia from 2000 to 2003, after which he became planning ma…

Neil Duffin has been appointed president of ExxonMobil Production Company and was elected to serve as a vice president of the ExxonMobil Corporation. Duffin joined Mobil in 1979 and has held a variety of managerial positions in production, operations, and development. In 1992, he was named producing advisor for Europe and Africa. In 1995, he was named manager of Mobil…

As the oil industry begins to emerge from one of the worst downturns in decades, some see a new threat on the horizon: the growing use of electrically powered vehicles, which could cut seriously into future oil consumption.

Oil companies that have slashed the break-even cost of producing oil from shale plays now must figure out how to hold on to those hard-won gains.