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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.

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…

An SPE young professionals workshop held 17–20 November in Bangkok, Thailand, attracted 72 attendees representing 14 organizations and seven countries.

Timothy C. Dugan, SPE, was selected as the new chief operating officer for Consol Energy’s exploration and production division. With more than 30 years’ experience across many major US gas fields, he previously worked at Chesapeake Energy, most recently serving as vice president of its Appalachia South business unit. Starting in 2009, Dugan directed Chesapeake’s opera…

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.

Increasing technical demands are pushing the envelope of rotary steerable system (RSS) drilling technology.

Imagine if you could have seen North America’s shale gas phenomenon coming, years ahead of the competition. What would you have done differently?