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High-performance computing is an important piece of the puzzle for operators looking to integrate field models with surface facilities. Next-generation processors and accelerators should help build the systems needed to meet industry's growing demands, but the tools may be reaching their limits.

Stress Engineering Services (SES) promoted Kenneth Bhalla to chief technology officer. Prior to his promotion, Bhalla led SES’ drilling, completion, and intervention systems subpractice and was one of the key architects of the company’s award-winning Realtime Fatigue Monitoring System. He has more than 20 years of experience in technology, software and hardware develo…

Woodside awarded Subsea 7 three contracts since December 2018, each for engineering studies and includes an option for Woodside to proceed to the execute phase with an engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) contract.

The US majors plan to produce around 1 million BOE/D each from the basin, which has become a primary focus of their upstream operations.

Henderson, a provider of sales and service of drilling rigs and capital drilling equipment, named Billy Rogers the new president of the drilling products division. He brings more than 40 years of oilfield experience to his new role. Prior to joining Henderson, he managed construction, refurbishment and upgrades of land and offshore rigs for Nabors, Atwood Oceanics, an…

Dennis Hahn, SPE, former chair of the SPE Canada Board, the SPE Calgary Section, and director of the SPE Canadian Educational Foundation, who was active with SPE at both the section and international levels, died 2 March in Bolivia, where he was teaching a completions course. Hahn, a completions manager at Repsol based in Calgary, was an expert in high-pressure/high-t…

Maersk Drilling expects Alastair Maxwell to be elected as a member of the board of directors of Maersk Drilling. He is currently the CFO of GasLogLtd and GasLog Partners LP as well as a board member of several companies within the GasLog Group. Before that, Maxwell had a 29-year career in the investment banking industry, most recently as a co-head of Energy Investment…

Sam Gibbs, the inventor of the wave equation method used in the rod pumping diagnostic and predictive software, and an SPE Legend of Artificial Lift, died 17 February. Gibbs earned his BS in mechanical engineering at Texas A&M University in 1954 and worked for Shell Oil Company briefly before being drafted into the US Army. Upon returning, he took a leave of absence f…

Recommended Practice 54, "Occupational Safety and Health for Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing Operations," provides procedures for promoting and maintaining safe and healthy working conditions for personnel in drilling and well servicing operations.

Sponsors say bill will modernize laws, bringing them in line with changes in technology.