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UniversalPegasus International (UPI) named Tim Brown as senior vice president of business development. Brown has more than 30 years of experience in the engineering and construction sectors. He comes to UPI from Jacobs Engineering, where he held the position of global vice president of inside sales and marketing. Brown was responsible for downstream, upstream, chemica…

This is the third article of a series on water management for hydraulic fracturing in unconventional resources. This month, water treatment technologies are introduced, beginning with the removal of suspended solids by coagulation/flocculation and electrocoagulation for recycling flowback fluids.

Mario Azar was named CEO of the solutions business unit in the oil and gas division of Siemens’ energy sector. Before the appointment, he was executive vice president of Siemens Energy’s gas turbine power plant solutions in the fossil power generation division with responsibility for the business in North and South America. He started his career at Westinghouse Electr…

This is the time of year new graduates join our companies. There is tremendous talent coming into our industry. Over the years, I have developed a number of “observations/home truths,” which I invariably share as part of the dialogue around careers and opportunities.

Chet Morrison Contractors named Michael Brown as general manager of marine construction. Brown has 35 years of experience in the commercial diving industry. Most recently, he held an 8-year tenure as vice president and general manager at EPIC, the commercial diving business unit of TETRA. Brown is an active member of several industry associations and committees, inclu…

Conversion of very large crude carriers to FPSO's can speed time to first oil under the right conditions, there are many considerations in the planning and execution of these conversions.

Drilling, completion, production, and general surveillance are all areas that benefit greatly from remote real-time analysis. However, several challenges to remote services exist, including communications issues, fear of job loss, and working outside one’s comfort zone. What is considered an important development goal for a business might be regarded as a threat to an…

Recently, a series of instrumented perforation experiments demonstrated that existing cleanup models do not accurately predict perforation cleanup when perforating in a DUB condition.

Recently, while preparing to present a seminar on deepwater-well-construction optimization, I tried hard to find a word or a phrase that could be seen as “the secret” for a safe and optimized drilling performance.

Data-mining processes are fundamental in obtaining the predictive benefits of real-time systems and have been progressing from descriptive to predictive optimization methods.