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Schlumberger's board of directors appointed Olivier Le Peuch chief operating officer of Schlumberger Limited, effective immediately. Reporting to Paal Kibsgaard, chairman and CEO, Le Peuch will be responsible for the day-to-day management of all worldwide operations. Previously, Le Peuch was executive vice president reservoir & infrastructure, responsible for the mana…

Tendeka appointed Nizami Musayev as a new area manager in Russia. He joins Tendeka from Interwell, where he was responsible for growing the company’s completion business, and previously spent 19 years working for Schlumberger in various roles progressing from field to management positions. Musayev holds BSc and MSc degrees in drilling engineering from the Azerbaijan P…

As we move to digitize our visual inspections with a variety of image-capture devices, fully understanding the strengths and limitations of the approach is important to move truly from a qualitative to a quantitative assessment with confidence.

Most businesses understand that data is essential to improving operational performance and that data technologies provide opportunities for more-accurate risk assessment and control of safety-critical systems. Nonetheless, statistics show that the threat of cybercrime is growing.

Tons of resources are devoted to assure the integrity of facility piping systems, but are the generally accepted methods of inspecting these systems the best way? Complex systems with above- and underground piping sections may require a combination of direct assessment and elements of an API code.

Culture, not controls, will drive the next phase of industry safety evolution, said presenters at a recent HSE conference.

ADNOC awarded a $1.36-billion dredging, land reclamation, and marine construction contract to the UAE’s National Marine Dredging Company (NMDC) for the construction of multiple artificial islands in the first phase of development of the Ghasha Concession.

Petrobras has awarded TechnipFMC with an engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) contract for the Mero 1 pre-salt field, located in the Santos Basin at 2100 m offshore Brazil. The contract covers the engineering, procurement, and construction of all rigid lines, as well as the installation and precommissioning of all the infield risers and the …

Anadarko Mozambique Area 1, LTDA, a subsidiary of Anadarko Petroleum Corp., named the preferred tenderers for provision of the subsea production systems. Formal award will follow final agreement of contracts and Mozambique LNG taking a final investment decision, expected in the first half of this year.

Wood and KBR inked a multimillion-dollar contract to deliver integrated front-end engineering design (FEED) for Shell Australia's Crux project to build a not-normally-manned (NNM) platform and gas export pipeline located approximately 600 km north of Broome, offshore Western Australia (WA). The Crux field water depth is 110 to 170 m.

Electromagnetic images can show where water flows during a hydraulic fracture. A test in the Anadarko Basin showed a fault there was a bigger hazard than expected.

For too long, owner/operators have managed operational profitability using paper-based processes or monthly reporting cycles. In the new technological climate, this approach has been proven to be less effective. Enter the industrial Internet of things.