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Farstad appointed Brett Silich as a managing director for its Australian offices. Silich has previously worked in senior positions at Maersk, Subsea 7, and served a stint as chief executive officer at Velocious. He had been managing director at Wallaby Engineering since 2013. He holds an honors degree in mechanical engineering from Curtin University.

Suncor Energy added Michael Creel to its board of directors. Creel previously served as chief executive officer (CEO) and director of the general partners at Enterprise Products Partners, a provider of midstream energy services, from 2010 to 2015. He joined Enterprise Products in 1999 and held positions of increasing responsibility within the company. Creel also serve…

Shell and GravityLight are working together in Kenya to convert the kinetic energy generated by the gravity of falling rocks to produce a safe, renewable source of light to those with no access to electricity .

MMI Engineering, a technical consultancy, named John Evans as managing director. Evans has more than 25 years of professional experience, including stints as principal consultant at the GL Group and as general manager of ESR Technology’s Aberdeen office. He has been MMI’s UK operations manager since 2015, and since 2010 he has served as manager of the company’s office…

The US EPA’s 2016 New Source Performance Standards updated the 2012 standards by adding requirements for the industry to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, specifically methane. The 2016 NSPS also covers hydraulically fractured oil wells and production, processing, transmission and storage activities.

In this first of a two-part series, the author describes why the use of lump sum contracts for FEED services contract followed by an EPC contract does not fulfil the requirements to lower oil and gas facilities capex.

Bernard J. Duroc-Danner has stepped down as chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), and president at Weatherford. Duroc-Danner had served in those positions since 27 May 1998. He joined the company in May 1987 to initiate the startup of EVI's oilfield service and equipment business. He was elected EVI's president in January 1990 and CEO in May 1990. He serves on the …

This week the US Geological Survey (USGS) reported that the Wolfcamp shale holds 20 billion bbl of technically recoverable oil. This builds on other active formations in the Permian Basin, where nearly half of US active rigs are operating.

Geophysicists from Stanford University have compiled a map of new maximum horizontal stress orientations in Texas and surrounding areas, potentially giving operators new information for avoiding seismic activity in their hydraulic fracturing operations.

The Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality recently concluded that hydraulic fracturing operations were not the likely cause of well water contamination in a small town.

Wood Group appointed Jan Dell as vice president of clean energy. Dell has more than 20 years' experience in the energy, industrial, water, and climate sectors. Prior to joining Wood Group, she held senior strategy and management positions with AECOM, CH2M Hill, and ConocoPhillips, where she led global energy and industrial project developments incorporating sustainabl…

A team of oil and gas consultancy companies have formed a collaborative program aimed at offering integrated support for operators looking to retire redundant facilities without in-house overhead.