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The Risha concession, in the desert of eastern Jordan (bordering Iraq, Syria, and Saudi Arabia) contains the partially developed Risha gas field.

JPT interviewed Mohamed bin Saleh Al-Sada, Qatar’s minister of industry and energy, on the sidelines of this year’s IPTC.

Some of the world’s largest exploration and production companies say the big bets they have placed on high-performance computing over the past several years are set to pay off.

As oil and gas fields are depleted, artificial lift systems are often required to maintain delivery volumes and to maximize recovery.

At IPTC’s awards dinner, Shell was bestowed with the conference’s highest honor in recognition of its Pearl Gas to Liquids (GTL) facility in Qatar.

China Oilfield Services Limited (COSL) has entered into a long-term cooperation contract with Pemex for COSL4, a 2,000‑HP module rig. The rig’s operation period will be more than 1,700 days.

Drydocks World was awarded a USD‑730-million contract from Drill One Capital to construct a large rig for the North Sea. Completion of the CJ-80 jack-up rig is set for 2017.

BW Offshore acquired the tanker Blue Opal for USD 83.4 million from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering. The tanker is a 320,000-deadweight-ton very large crude carrier.

Hess completed the sale of its Pangkah asset in Indonesia’s East Java Sea to a subsidiary of PT Saka Energi Indonesia for USD 650 million. The asset produced an average of 9,000 BOE/D in the first three quarters of 2013.

Ali H. Dogru, SPE, was named the first Saudi Aramco fellow, an honor the company initiated to recognize its scientists who have made groundbreaking contributions. Dogru played a pivotal role in the development of various mathematical reservoir simulators for thermal and chemical oil recovery. At Saudi Aramco, he worked on the development of two proprietary reservoir s…