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BP Southern Africa (BPSA) appointed Priscillah Mabelane as CEO. Mabelane joined BPSA as CFO in 2011 and most recently served as operations director for BP’s UK retail business. Prior to joining BP, she held various executive roles at a number of large South African companies, including a stints as CFO at Airports Company and tax director at Ernst & Young. Mabelane hol…

McDermott appointed Philippe Barril to its board of directors. Barril has served as COO at SBM Offshore since March 2015 and has over 25 years’ experience in the offshore oil and gas construction industry, including engineering and project management. He has held key positions of increasing responsibility for various companies, including as president and COO of Techni…

A consortium of organizations has set out to tackle one of the more enduring challenges in the North Sea: the nondestructive testing (NDT) of corroded pipes under insulation and engineered temporary pipe wraps.

There are downsides to a "hearts and minds" behavioral safety approach. The original "hearts and minds" program is instructional in this regard.

As of 4 September, BSEE has not received any damage reports from evacuated platforms or rigs in the path of Hurricane Harvey. A small number of facilities remain evacuated.

The author discusses various methods of modeling process safety.

The Trump administration is easing environmental regulations and opening up territory for drilling as part of the president’s bid to unleash the “vast energy wealth” of the US. Yet Donald Trump’s push to rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) could have the opposite effect.

While many efforts are focusing on the optimization of current technologies and the study of past reservoir performance to improve future developments, with fewer capital resources and personnel available, these efforts may yield only incremental improvements.

The Unconventional Resources Technology Conference included discussions on emerging approaches to improving oil and gas recovery from tight rocks and exploring where the risks still lie with induced seismicity.

There is intense focus across the industry on profitability in the current low-oil-price environment. Yet, today’s profitability is not the only challenge. Laying the groundwork for future profitability must also occur.