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KBR appointed Jan Egil Braendeland as president of its oil and gas business unit. He brings more than 20 years of experience in the upstream industry, rejoining the company after a brief period of time at another firm, where he served as senior vice president of upstream global business development. He was previously employed by KBR for 18 years, where he held leaders…

As the world's supply of crude becomes heavier, many of the world’s oil producers will have to think more carefully about heavy crudes and the challenges they pose for processing, storage, and transportation.

Joseph Bramande joins Pulse Structural Monitoring as the business development manager of marine systems, including mooring lines and subsea infrastructure. He joins the company after 5 years with ExxonMobil as the project controls lead of the PNG liquefied natural gas project in Papua New Guinea. Bramande holds a BS in civil engineering from Louisiana Tech University.

Strong demand for natural gas is driving a recovery in liquefied natural gas (LNG) expenditures worldwide, with expenditures expected to reach USD 228 billion in the next five years.

SEMPCheck Services appointed Tad LeBlanc as vice president of operations. With more than 30 years of oil field-related experience, LeBlanc held senior management positions in production operations, mechanical integrity, and health, safety, and environmental, and regulatory compliance. Most recently, he served as vice president of health, safety, environmental, and reg…

In this second article of a three-part series, methods for improved quantification of operating performances of the gas gravity separation, the mist extraction, and the liquid gravity separation sections of gas/liquid separators are discussed.

Willbros Group promoted Mike Futch from vice president and general manager of Willbros Construction to senior vice president of regional and integrity construction. Futch directs the northeast and southeast regional business units. He also assists customers in the pipeline industry in developing compliance solutions for the Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty, and J…

UniversalPegasus International (UPI) named Tim Brown as senior vice president of business development. Brown has more than 30 years of experience in the engineering and construction sectors. He comes to UPI from Jacobs Engineering, where he held the position of global vice president of inside sales and marketing. Brown was responsible for downstream, upstream, chemica…

Mario Azar was named CEO of the solutions business unit in the oil and gas division of Siemens’ energy sector. Before the appointment, he was executive vice president of Siemens Energy’s gas turbine power plant solutions in the fossil power generation division with responsibility for the business in North and South America. He started his career at Westinghouse Electr…

This is the third article of a series on water management for hydraulic fracturing in unconventional resources. This month, water treatment technologies are introduced, beginning with the removal of suspended solids by coagulation/flocculation and electrocoagulation for recycling flowback fluids.

This is the time of year new graduates join our companies. There is tremendous talent coming into our industry. Over the years, I have developed a number of “observations/home truths,” which I invariably share as part of the dialogue around careers and opportunities.

Chet Morrison Contractors named Michael Brown as general manager of marine construction. Brown has 35 years of experience in the commercial diving industry. Most recently, he held an 8-year tenure as vice president and general manager at EPIC, the commercial diving business unit of TETRA. Brown is an active member of several industry associations and committees, inclu…