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As drones become a more significant part of energy projects, the guide outlines the steps operators should take in assessing their capabilities to run a drone program and the elements such programs should consider, including safety and regulatory concerns.

It is rare that businesses selling equipment to the oil and gas sector can benefit from lower oil prices. But that is the case for CRA pipe manufacturers, which are comfortably outperforming 2014 levels.

Apache named Juliet Ellis to its board of directors. Ellis served as a managing director and senior portfolio manager for Invesco and as the chief investment officer for Invesco’s US Growth Equities Investment Management Unit until her retirement in March. She was senior portfolio manager for Invesco’s Small Cap Growth Fund and Small Cap Equity Fund from 2004 to 2017.…

C-Innovation, an affiliate of Edison Chouest Offshore, named John Michael Boquet as health, safety, and environment (HSE) manager. Based in Mandeville, Louisiana, Boquet’s responsibilities include managing the HSE aspects of personnel, equipment, and activities involved in subsea operations, including ROV, AUV, survey, and tooling functions. He will also be responsibl…

Boskalis Subsea Services said it has been awarded more than £100 million ($126 million) in contracts for operations in the UK North Sea over the past six months. These deals include an inspection, maintenance, and repair (IMR) campaign for Repsol Sinopec, a decommissioning contract with Spirit Energy, a scale squeeze scope for Premier Oil’s Huntington field, and Total…

The state-owned firm is looking within its home country, around Southeast Asia, and to the Americas—including shale—in an effort to maintain its forecast average yearly production of 1.7 million BOE/D over the next 5 years.

As the global oil and gas industry grasps the benefits that digitalization, automation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence can bring to production and profitability, its relatively immature cyber systems are making it an attractive soft target for hackers.

Although the shale sector continues to thrive, the pace of deepwater E&P is now gradually picking up.

A lack of access to electricity has ripple effects across many aspects of people’s lives, health, and safety.

Malaysia’s Petronas, Shell Malaysia, and Thailand’s PTTEP are now in the midst of full-scale digital adoption. The companies are beginning to see results, but none is counting on a “big bang” in development of the technology soon.