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A message from David Quirk, SPE Canadian Educational Foundation Chair, and Helen Chang, SPE Canadian Educational Trust Past Chair

This study presents an overview of the structural response and failure mechanism of three-sided protected beams and proposes design solutions.

Whenever we design an oil and gas facility, the safety of the operating staff is of paramount importance. At last year’s Offshore Technology Conference, three papers presented information on a critical safety feature: fire protection on offshore installations.

Applying sufficient passive fire protection (PFP) on topside structural-steel members is critical. Simplified and conservative approaches are available to estimate the extent and amount of PFP necessary.

Four types of fire- and blast-resistant walls for offshore installations are assessed, including internal vs. external fire and blast walls.

A new purpose-built center offers cutting-edge research, formulation analysis, and testing in one location.

Nick Garrett has joined the board of directors at Lamprell, a fabrication company based in the United Arab Emirates, as a nonexecutive director. Garrett spent worked at JP Morgan Cazenove from 1989 to 2012, including an 11-year stint as head of initial public offerings (IPOs) and exeuction. In that role, he advised on more than 40 IPOs, including Lamprell's listing in…

Mubadala Petroleum, an Abu Dhabi-based exploration and production company, appointed Bakheet Al Katheeri as its chief executive officer (CEO). Al Katheeri previously served as chief growth officer at the company, where he was responsible for new business development along with mergers and acquisitions. He was also Mubadala's chief operation officer (COO), overseeing o…

Jessica Uhl took over as chief financial officer (CFO) at Royal Dutch Shell. Uhl joined Shell in 2004 and has held various finance leadership roles in the company's upstream, integrated gas, and downstream businesses, as well as in its projects and technology business and its corporate headquarters. Before being appointed CFO, Uhl served as executive vice president of…

SPE’s newly launched technical section will provide a central hub for questions, answers, discussion, collaboration, and networking around unmanned systems for the oil and gas industry.