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Incoming Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has announced that Octavio Romero will take over as CEO of Pemex when the new government takes office in December. Romero was a government official from 2000 to 2005, during Lopez Obrador’s term as mayor of Mexico City. During his political career he also served as PRD national councilor from 1994 to 1999 and as a…

BP ends a year of speculation as to who will buy BHP Billiton’s much-coveted US unconventional business, transforming its Lower 48 portfolio in the process.

Do you have what it takes to manage engineering on an EPC job? This 10-question quiz will tell.

Researchers at Texas Tech University have released a study into wastewater production and disposal in the Marcellus Shale, proposing disposal hubs across the state of Pennsylvania that could reduce trucking distances.

A recent research effort has shown that the digital journey is full of stumbling blocks. Just like humans, advanced computing technology will get some things right and some things wrong.

Larson Electronics announced the release of a handheld explosion-proof LED light with a cord reel for hazardous location. The EXHL-HL-LE4-WHT-X12V-GR50 is a low-voltage unit with two configurations: a 10° spot beeam that measures 800 ft long by 140 ft wide, and a flood beam with a 40° beam measuring 300 ft long by 225 ft wide. The light has a high color-temperature ra…

Just as Libya resumes oil exports from recently shuttered ports, an attack on its largest field is setting back progress yet again.

The Mental Health Commission of Canada explains the effect of employees’ daily experience on mental health in new white paper.

The new ordinance affects oil and gas operations and is likely to be challenged in court.

One of the more difficult hurdles to overcome when developing a safety leadership culture is getting front-line employees to understand the full weight of their role in stop-work authority.

This paper aims to evaluate the applicability of input/output analysis to local content management as a tool to assess the relationship between the Brazilian government’s local content policy and social and economic effects of investment projects in the oil and gas and shipbuilding industry.

The US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement’s SafeOCS program has released its 2017 annual report on Blowout Prevention System Safety, noting 18 of 25 operators associated with rig operations in the Gulf of Mexico reported 1,129 equipment component failure events.