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Promotion from a role in field operations to a supervisory position presents its own set of challenges. Although your technical know-how may be topnotch, are you ready to manage people well? These tips point you in the right direction to develop the new skills you’ll need.

"Human Rights Due Diligence in Conflict-Affected Settings" responds to growing concerns by companies working in fragile areas about possible human rights violations in those contexts.

Producers in Oklahoma’s newly opened Merge play are sitting atop a resource that rivals some major world gas fields and discoveries, Citizen Energy’s Geology CEO Greg Augsburger told the SPE Gulf Coast Section Business Development Group recently.

Oceanteam CEO Haico Halbesma will step down from his position effective 30 March. The decision follows a series of financial restructurings within the company in recent years. Halbesma, who will stay on as an advisor, co-founded Oceanteam in 2005 and is a major shareholder in the company. He was previously employed as a managing director at Seateam Technology.

The Remus M3V from Hydroid is a micro autonomous underwater vehicle which supports numerous subsea applications including search and survey; intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; marine research; and multi-vehicle missions. It can dive up to 300m in depth and its size allows for use in multi-domain deployments. The AUV can achieve speeds of 10 knots and is e…

Mark Albers will retire from his position as senior vice president of Exxon Mobil Corporation effective 1 April, after more than 38 years of service. Albers was elected to his current position in 2007, having previously held a variety of managerial positions in development, operations, production, and engineering. He joined Exxon USA in 1979 and, after several assignm…

The steel pipe manufacturer agrees to deliver outer pipes for pipe-in-pipe flowlines for a pair of recently-announced Aker BP projects in the Norwegian Sea.

SeaRobotics, a designer and manufacturer of remote sensing systems for subsea applications, appointed Lou Dennis as its director of programs. Dennis previously worked for Subsea 7 as an engineer focused on deepwater remotely operated vehicle (ROV) and intervention tooling system design. After that, he joined ROV manufacturer Perry Slingby Systems as vice president of …

Kongsberg’s Flexview multibeam sonar is designed specifically for small observation class remotely operated vehicles (ROVs). It provides distortion-free images at a range of up to 200m over a 140° sector, reducing the time it takes to search for and locate targets subsea. The system’s removable transducer allows for field replacement in the event of a catastrophic imp…

Statoil’s board of directors proposed to change the name of the company to Equinor as of 16 March. The name change is intended to support the company’s strategy and development as a broad energy company.

Telling executives that the cost per foot drilled is down is not going to convince them that drilling is getting more efficient. That requires translating drilling measures into the language of corporate budgeters.

Pioneer shut in 8,000 BOE/D production in its West Panhandle field in Texas on 6 March due to a compression station fire. No injuries occurred. Planning to use idle compressors, production is expected to restart later this month or in early April.