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With the launch of the redesigned, device-friendly website, SPE young professionals’ magazine, The Way Ahead (TWA), is now an online-only publication and can be found at www.spe.org/twa. The old website, which held pdfs of articles from the print issues, has been updated to a web-friendly format and adapts to desktop, tablet, or mobile reading.

Treating produced water to control bacteria is like weeding a garden. It addresses the problem that is not going away.

A floating gas-extraction facility was constructed to extract gas-laden water, separate the CH4 and some of the CO2, and reinject the degassed water, thus increasing the safety of the lake and simultaneously providing CH4.

Applying an economic analysis for Trinidad and Tobago's deepwater gas fiscal regime, results were calculated for various price scenarios to identify a workable strategy for development of offshore resources.

The engineering and operational planning to ensure that no uncontrolled hydrocarbon releases occur during the execution of subsea big-bore gas wells are described.

Analyzing the properties of produced water is a difficult process because of the extreme levels of suspended and dissolved particulates contained in it, and a chemistry profile that is in constant flux.

Eve Sprunt, SPE, was appointed President-Elect at the American Geosciences Institute. She was the 2006 SPE president. Sprunt has professional society and business management experience and was a founder of the Society of Core Analysts. She was recently the first vice president of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), where she founded the SEG Women’s Network…

Steen Karstensen was appointed as chief executive officer of Maersk Supply Service effective October 24. Karstensen joined Maersk in 1986 and has spent the last 30 years with the company, working in procurement, logistics, supply chain, in-house consultancy, and other crossfunctional areas. Karstensen previously served as the company's chief procurement officer, overs…

OceanWorks, a subsea solution engineering company, appointed Glen Viau to the position of president. Based out of the company's Vancouver office, Viau will oversee the company's submarine rescue systems, seafloor observatory systems, and subsea systems departments for the oil and gas market, among other things. He holds more than 24 years of experience in the subsea t…

Sevan Marine named Reese McNeel as its chief executive officer (CEO) effective 1 January 2017. McNeel is currently the company's chief financial officer (CFO) and will continue in the role after assuming CEO duties. McNeel has previous experience in several interim finance management positions, including a stint as interim CFO at Sevan Marine in 2001. He previously se…