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Stress Engineering Services (SES) promoted Kenneth Bhalla to chief technology officer. Prior to his promotion, Bhalla led SES’ drilling, completion, and intervention systems subpractice and was one of the key architects of the company’s award-winning Realtime Fatigue Monitoring System. He has more than 20 years of experience in technology, software and hardware develo…

Woodside awarded Subsea 7 three contracts since December 2018, each for engineering studies and includes an option for Woodside to proceed to the execute phase with an engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) contract.

The US majors plan to produce around 1 million BOE/D each from the basin, which has become a primary focus of their upstream operations.

Henderson, a provider of sales and service of drilling rigs and capital drilling equipment, named Billy Rogers the new president of the drilling products division. He brings more than 40 years of oilfield experience to his new role. Prior to joining Henderson, he managed construction, refurbishment and upgrades of land and offshore rigs for Nabors, Atwood Oceanics, an…

Maersk Drilling expects Alastair Maxwell to be elected as a member of the board of directors of Maersk Drilling. He is currently the CFO of GasLogLtd and GasLog Partners LP as well as a board member of several companies within the GasLog Group. Before that, Maxwell had a 29-year career in the investment banking industry, most recently as a co-head of Energy Investment…

Recommended Practice 54, "Occupational Safety and Health for Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing Operations," provides procedures for promoting and maintaining safe and healthy working conditions for personnel in drilling and well servicing operations.

Sponsors say bill will modernize laws, bringing them in line with changes in technology.

Among the most consequential provisions is the permanent reauthorization of the Land and Water Conservation Fund, a federal program established in the 1960s that uses fees and royalties paid by oil and gas companies drilling in federal waters to pay for onshore conservation programs.

Workers in specific settings and activities are at increased risk for certain infectious diseases. When an infectious disease case occurs in a worker, investigators need to understand the mechanisms of disease propagation in the workplace.

In its report "Change the Conversation: Redefining How Companies Engage Investors on Sustainability," nonprofit Ceres provides some guidance on how companies should best engage with their investors on the issue of sustainability.

Researchers at Indiana University's School of Public and Environmental Affairs found that public opinion of oil and gas development could be improved if firms were "green certified," meaning that they pledged to adhere to stricter environmental standards than required.

The TRITON/TRISIS/HatMan malware incident proved that the worlds of process safety and industrial control systems should be looked at holistically, not just from the standpoint of potential cyberthreats.