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Advanced AUVs with early-stage technologies for live streaming, ultrasonic testing, and 3D laser scanning are set to enter inspection trials on North Sea facilities. The aim is to reduce facilities inspection costs by 50%.

Elisabeth Proust will retire as managing director of Total E&P UK after 38 years with the company. She had served in her current position since November 2015. Prior to that, she worked as managing director for Nigeria operations at Total. She began her career as a junior drilling supervisor at Elf Aquitaine (now Total) in 1980. She worked with the company’s developmen…

Josh C. Anders joined Samson Resources II as CFO. He has over 20 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, most recently as CFO and executive VP of Adams Resources & Energy Previously, he served as VP and controller at Southwestern Energy Company; VP and treasurer for Beryl Oil and Gas; and corporate finance manager at Pogo Producing Company. Anders is a certif…

Jones Energy appointed Jeff Tanner COO and interim CEO after the immediate termination of CEO Jonny Jones and President Mike McConnell. Jones will continue to serve as chairman and McConnell will remain a board member. Tanner joined the company in 2014 and served as executive VP for geosciences and business development. He has over 27 years of technical and managerial…

Why do 80% of megaprojects in the oil industry fail? A recently published book reaches a counterintuitive conclusion on the leadership traits required to run complex projects successfully.

An agreement with DF Barnes is expected to provide financial security for the Scottish fabrication company, which had been on the verge of closure.

Oilfield services provider Petrofac named Allan Cockriel chief information officer. Cockriel joins the company from GE, where he was responsible for IT and service delivery for the combined GE Power/Alstom Global Parts Fulfillment IT organization. During his 14 years at GE, he also worked in areas of international IT leadership, global restructuring and business trans…

The Model FT4X from Fox Thermal is a thermal gas mass flowmeter that measures process gas flow rates, totals, and temperatures. It is equipped with a second-generation direct digitally controlled (DDC) sensor, as well as an advanced data logger with a real-time clock that can calculate up to 40 totals in a 24-hour period. A USB connection comes standard with the flowm…

Tullow Oil appointed Dorothy Thompson as independent non-executive director and chair-designate effective 25 April, after which she will assume the role of chairman. Thompson spent 12 years as CEO of the energy trader Drax Group, leaving the company at the end of 2017. Before that, she managed InterGen’s European power business, was head of project finance at PowerGen…

Yokogawa’s Enterprise Pipeline Management Solution (EPMS) provides a series of standard software applications to facilitate pipeline management and operations. The new R1.03 edition allows for multiple product cuts from the same interface to help ease the management of quality gradations. It also allows multiple flow paths to share use of the same physical meter and h…