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The SPE technical director of Production and Facilities discusses the role process and occupational safety play in oil and gas operations.

Due to the continued pressure from weak utilization of existing operating fleet and supply overhang of newbuilds, Keppel is cutting its yard capacity. The company is however seeking opportunities in niche and new markets.

In this tenth article of the series, the author focuses primarily on specific operational elements of troubleshooting rather than the mechanical design of the separator.   

Tyer Wind in Tunisia developed a wind turbine that mimics the flapping motion of hummingbirds' wings. Rated power output is 1 kW, using two carbon-fiber wings, each 5.25-ft long. At rated power, it operates at 450 rpm. The machine is currently undergoing open air/real conditions testing.

Ceri Powell will step down as executive vice president for exploration at Royal Dutch Shell to become managing director of Brunei Shell Petroleum. Marc Gerrits will replace her in the position. Powell has been in her current role for the past 7 years, taking over in 2010 after a 2-year stint as vice president of strategy with the company. From 2004 to 2008 she was vic…

Ted Jacobson has announced his retirement from his position as CEO of Carnarvon Petroleum due to health issues and a desire to spend more time with his family. Jacobson has been a nonexecutive director at Carnarvon since 2005. As CEO, he led the successful discovery, development, and production of oil in Thailand. Prior to joining the company, he co-founded Discovery …

Changes coming to the anonymity tools underlying the darknet may make a deeper kind of online privacy possible. Soon anyone will be able to create their own corner of the Internet that’s not just anonymous and untraceable, but entirely undiscoverable without an invite.

Scientists have developed oxidized carbon particles that extract radioactive metals, such as cesium and strontium, from water. They said the materials may help purify contaminated waters stored after the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident and also can trap common radioactive elements found in waterfloods from oil extraction, such as uranium, thorium, and radium,

The new Juniper offshore platform began its journey toward Trinidad to be installed as BP Trinidad and Tobago LLC’s 14th offshore installation. Juniper will have a production capacity of approximately 590 MMscf/D.

Over the past year, various institutions and organizations—both domestic and international—have shown an interest in moving the increasingly prevalent cybersecurity conversation offshore.

The Hail 3D transition-zone seismic survey carried out by ADNOC is located in a UNESCO world-biosphere reserve. Effective environmental and ecological management throughout the project was attained through working procedures and monitoring programs.

Various incidents that took place between Transocean, the owner of Deepwater Horizon, and BP, the company that leased the rig for use at Macondo, illustrate the gap between work-as-imagined in the drilling program and work-as-done by the well operations crew.