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The Noble Jim Day semisubmersible (left) arrived at Harbor Island in Port Aransas, Texas, on 29 July to be cold stacked.

2H Offshore named Yann Helle as managing director. Helle, who had previously held the position of technical manager, managed the TLP top-tensioned riser system delivery management project for Total’s Moho Nord field development. He joined the company in 2002 and has experience in riser and conductor systems, minimum facility platforms, and component package supply. He…

Advisian appointed Geeta Thakorlal as president of INTECSEA. She succeeds Neil Mackintosh, who will take on the role of executive vice president of global market sales. Thakorlal has more than 30 years of management and professional services experience, the last 25 years coming in the international oil and gas sector. She has worked primarily in upstream for greenfiel…

In a market assessment tool for US exporters, the US Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration ranked 74 markets based on export potential for US oil & gas equipment through 2019.

The annual SPE PFC Technical Section dinner will take place during ATCE in Dubai on 26 September.

Spady, an active SPE member since 1986, is the first Canadian to be elected President.

Offshore exploration will be slow to come back as companies have delayed billions in projects through 2020. Exploration projects also must complete for funds with brownfields developments like EOR that potentially provide a shorter time to show a return.

A number of companies are pushing for alternative approaches to offshore development that seek to access marginal reservoirs. Their differing and unique ideas call for a departure from the usual playbook, but share a common goal of slashing capital costs.

Well control is built around huge steel machines, but the future of the business is digital. Data have become a critical asset as operators and service companies work to increase the safety and reliability of their products and operations.

As an example of an open system, the oil and gas market is a function of several external forces. Free market supply and demand may not yield a sustainable equilibrium price, but the deferral of capital projects will result in a lack of global supply in just a few years.