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A partnership between academic researchers and two energy companies will build new evidence-based tools to enhance safety by examining whether simple exercises designed to increase mindfulness can reduce the risks.

The Swedish oil and gas producer is aiming to produce 200,000 B/D while offsetting the entirety of its carbon footprint.

Shell New Energies executive vice president Mark Gainsborough will step down in April and be replaced by Elisabeth Brinton. Brinton joined Shell in 2018 and is currently vice president for strategy at New Energies. Before joining Shell, she was executive general manager of power company AGL Energy’s New Energy division in Australia.

The board of Smiths Group appointed Karin Hoeing as an independent nonexecutive director effective 2 April. On joining the board, she will become a member of the Remuneration Committee. Hoeing is BAE Systems Group human resources (HR) director and joined the company in 2018 from Schlumberger, where she was president, wireline. Before that she held a number of senior H…

READ Cased Hole appointed Bruce Melvin, formerly CFO, to the role of CEO. Melvin joined READ in 2014 as CFO and has more than 15 years of financial management experience in medium and large global oilfield service providers. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and a graduate of the University of Aberdeen. He replaces the previous CEO of…

Robert Perrons, SPE, was named a Fulbright Scholar for 2020. He is an associate professor at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, specializing in innovation and new technologies within the energy and resource sector. He also serves as a member of the United Nations Resources and Energy Expert Group and is a technical adviser to several resource sector …

Joe Albi, SPE, executive vice president and COO at Cimarex Energy, will retire from the company as an officer and director effective 1 July. Albi has been with the company since its formation in 2002, having joined Key Production Company at its outset in 1994. Key was transformed into Cimarex through a merger with Helmerich & Payne's exploration and production busines…

Producers and investors continue to reward small companies with big solutions that lean on new software and hardware to lift the bottom line of one the world’s few trillion-dollar industries.

Developing an asset requires key investment decisions to be made early in the process, and as a result, some critical cost evaluations—such as abandonment—are often ballpark estimates. Adjusting the parameters for evaluating these costs can lead to more-accurate project valuations.

A ministerial decree in Indonesia has set the data model from the Professional Petroleum Data Management Association as the country's industry standard for upstream oil and gas data.