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Is this the end of petroleum engineering as we know it? 2016 SPE President Nathan Meehan dives into the question on the new SPE Podcast.

The objective of this paper is to find a safer and more-efficient method for performing inspections on jack-up legs and inside tanks.

McDermott secured a fabrication contract for the Greater Tortue Ahmeyim natural gas project offshore Mauritania and Senegal worth between $1 million and $50 million. The contract’s scope includes project management, fabrication engineering, procurement, pre-assembly, fabrication, acceptance tests, and system-integration tests on the subsea production system. The work,…

Shell awarded TechnipFMC with an integrated engineering, procurement, construction, and installation contract for its Perdido Phase 2 project in the US Gulf of Mexico. The contract covers the delivery and installation of subsea equipment, including flexible flowlines, flexible jumpers, steel flying leads, and electrical flying leads.

The International Association of Oil & Gas Producers-managed JIP 33 has issued specification S-170 for public review. The closing date for comments is 27 November.

The two largest oilfield services firms grapple with a worsening North American land market.

Developing the facility of the future is a technological and infrastructural challenge, but the people behind the technology play just as critical of a role in actualizing complex, innovative asset designs. How will future facilities affect the way companies operate?

International oilfield services company Expro appointed Quinn Fanning as chief financial officer. With more than 20 years’ experience, he brings financial leadership and executive management experience through his time as CFO of a public company and an investment banker. In his most recent position as executive vice president and CFO of Tidewater, Fanning played a lea…

Risk-based inspection is based on sophisticated risk analysis which significantly decreases overheads and helps to avoid equipment failures or unnecessary shutdowns.

The Management and Information technical discipline will be split to recognize the importance of digital transformation among our members’ responsibilities and the industry as a whole.

Equinor, the operator of the Johan Sverdrup field, said that Mongstad will receive more than 30% of the total oil from the Norwegian Continental Shelf when the field is operating at full capacity.

To launch in early 2020, the facility will bring together up to 300 developers, data scientists, architects, and other specialists.