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Chris Nussbaum, SPE, died 5 May. He was the chairman of the SPE Aberdeen Section from 2009 to 2011. Nussbaum was interpretation development advisor at Archer UK, where he provided expert technical support in log processing and interpretation services for the global wireline division. He joined Archer in 2011 as data services manager. Nussbaum was the chief executive o…

On 1 June, Hardt unveiled Europe’s first hyperloop test facility on the TU Delft campus. Hardt was founded as a company by a number of the winners from Elon Musk’s hyperloop competition earlier this year. Together with the European construction company BAM, they have built a test facility for this futuristic transport system.

Faster, lower-cost measures of multiphase permeability of conventional reservoirs are promised by a digital rock analysis method developed by BP and Exa, which is marketing software to measure relative permeability.

The Buchan Alpha ended production on 12 May in the UK North Sea. The semisubmersible moored floating production facility will be decommissioned by Veolia at its Dales Voe site in Lerwick, Shetland.

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…

This paper describes both design and economic considerations that lead to the selection of vacuum-insulated tubing (VIT) or vacuum-insulated casing (VIC) for the completion of thermal wells.

Brazing technology allows metallurgical joining of dissimilar materials by use of a filler material.

This paper describes the testing of a novel concept based on resistivity measurements to monitor acid-stimulation operations.