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Greyrock Energy added Andrew Hinkly to its board of directors. Since 2012, Hinkly has served as executive head of marketing at Anglo American Platinum. He joined Anglo American in 2008 as group head of procurement and supply chain. Prior to that, he worked for 20 years at the Ford Motor Company, including time spent as executive director of Americas procurement from 2…

Natural-gas-infrastructure reliability is critical for the energy sector. When capitalizing on old pipelines to transport natural gas, operators run the risk of partial blockage. In this study, the authors develop a multirate test method to detect partial blockage in a gas pipeline.

Looped lines are used to reduce pressure drop and increase flow capacity, but information on the flow behavior or predictive methods are not available for these systems.

As governments around the world seek to lower energy consumption in the wake of the low oil price environment, the 2016 SPE President said the industry must be proactive in ramping up its sustainability efforts.

Lessons learned in debottlenecking a “dirty” triethylene glycol contactor at the ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company’s LaBarge Black Canyon Facility in Wyoming highlight the results of work performed between 2001 and 2004.

BP appointed Nils Andersen as a nonexecutive director of its board of directors. Andersen previously served as group chief executive of A.P. Møller-Mærsk from 2007 to 2016. From 1999 to 2007, he worked for Carlsberg and Carlsberg Breweries, first as executive vice president and then as president and chief executive officer. He is a nonexecutive director at Unilever, w…

Ashtead Technology named Graeme Booth as a regional technical support leader. In this role, Booth will provide customers with technical support covering equipment rentals and customer engineered packages for survey and remotely operated vehicle operations. Booth has spent more than 25 years in the subsea industry. He joined Ashtead from Subsea 7, where he held a numbe…

Oceaneering appointed Jon Erik Reinhardsen to its board of directors. Reinhardsen is currently the president and chief executive officer of Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS), a marine geophysical company. Prior to joining PGS in April 2008, he served as president of global primary products growth at Alcoa for three years. He has also worked for Aker Maritime's in merger an…

Oilfield Helping Hands appointed Gregory Rachal as president. Rachal previously held positions with M-I SWACO and Halliburton in sales, product line and account management, operations, and product management across the United States. He also worked with major and independent operators in Houston and New Orleans. Rachal holds a BS in industrial art from Northwestern St…

Mekers Offshore, a Zhejiang-based company, launched its first in a series of liftboats at Shanghai Bestway Dajin Heavy Industries yard in Jiangsu, China.

Kashagan crude reached the global markets. The world’s most expensive upstream project restarted production and about 195,000 barrels, produced during the startup process, were shipped for export.

The report was written by a steering committee of SMEs with industry input from an SPE summit as well as members from SPE online communities. It is based on discussions and conclusions from the summit and is intended to provide guidance on an industry-wide safety management data sharing program.