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Douglas Westwoods' world FLNG market forecast for the period 2016-2022. A stormy ride is expected for the LNG industry, as the fall in natural gas prices limits investment in capital-intensive liquefaction projects.

At the 2016 Unconventional Resources Technology Conference, Barry Donaldson, vice president of global sales and marketing at Tetra Technologies, discussed possible cost-effective water management strategies.

Following years of deliberation, the European Union (EU) released a recommendation on unconventional hydrocarbons and a related communication in 2014. This paper traces the origins and development of these documents, which provide vital clues for the road ahead in European shale-gas regulation.

McDermott and Nakilat-Keppel Offshore Marine (N-KOM) agreed to an exclusive cooperation agreement for offshore engineering, procurement, construction, and installation projects within Qatari waters.

The Noble Jim Day semisubmersible (left) arrived at Harbor Island in Port Aransas, Texas, on 29 July to be cold stacked.

2H Offshore named Yann Helle as managing director. Helle, who had previously held the position of technical manager, managed the TLP top-tensioned riser system delivery management project for Total’s Moho Nord field development. He joined the company in 2002 and has experience in riser and conductor systems, minimum facility platforms, and component package supply. He…

Advisian appointed Geeta Thakorlal as president of INTECSEA. She succeeds Neil Mackintosh, who will take on the role of executive vice president of global market sales. Thakorlal has more than 30 years of management and professional services experience, the last 25 years coming in the international oil and gas sector. She has worked primarily in upstream for greenfiel…

In a market assessment tool for US exporters, the US Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration ranked 74 markets based on export potential for US oil & gas equipment through 2019.

The annual SPE PFC Technical Section dinner will take place during ATCE in Dubai on 26 September.

DNV’s new training center will run full-scale experiments for a joint industry project aimed at investigating cost-efficient explosion load descriptions for process areas.

Nigel Hearne has been named managing director of Chevron’s Australasia business unit (ABU). Hearne joined Texaco in 1989, prior to its merger with Chevron, and served as operations manager for the Pembroke refinery in the United Kingdom and for Chevron’s refinery in El Segundo, California, before becoming vice president of strategy for the company’s downstream strateg…

Decision making is a critically important part of engineering. In this article, the author argues that the day-to-day project execution decisions are more important than major project decisions and deserve more attention.