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Josh C. Anders joined Samson Resources II as CFO. He has over 20 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, most recently as CFO and executive VP of Adams Resources & Energy Previously, he served as VP and controller at Southwestern Energy Company; VP and treasurer for Beryl Oil and Gas; and corporate finance manager at Pogo Producing Company. Anders is a certif…

Jones Energy appointed Jeff Tanner COO and interim CEO after the immediate termination of CEO Jonny Jones and President Mike McConnell. Jones will continue to serve as chairman and McConnell will remain a board member. Tanner joined the company in 2014 and served as executive VP for geosciences and business development. He has over 27 years of technical and managerial…

As it works to increase production to 1 million BOE/D, Permian mainstay Pioneer is taking a methodical approach to sustaining capital efficiency.

Chief Executive Officer Ben van Beurden has the same message for activists seeking to bind Royal Dutch Shell to deep emissions cuts and investors concerned about the merits of shifting away from oil and gas: Trust me.

Oilfield services provider Petrofac named Allan Cockriel chief information officer. Cockriel joins the company from GE, where he was responsible for IT and service delivery for the combined GE Power/Alstom Global Parts Fulfillment IT organization. During his 14 years at GE, he also worked in areas of international IT leadership, global restructuring and business trans…

The Model FT4X from Fox Thermal is a thermal gas mass flowmeter that measures process gas flow rates, totals, and temperatures. It is equipped with a second-generation direct digitally controlled (DDC) sensor, as well as an advanced data logger with a real-time clock that can calculate up to 40 totals in a 24-hour period. A USB connection comes standard with the flowm…

Tullow Oil appointed Dorothy Thompson as independent non-executive director and chair-designate effective 25 April, after which she will assume the role of chairman. Thompson spent 12 years as CEO of the energy trader Drax Group, leaving the company at the end of 2017. Before that, she managed InterGen’s European power business, was head of project finance at PowerGen…

Yokogawa’s Enterprise Pipeline Management Solution (EPMS) provides a series of standard software applications to facilitate pipeline management and operations. The new R1.03 edition allows for multiple product cuts from the same interface to help ease the management of quality gradations. It also allows multiple flow paths to share use of the same physical meter and h…

US oil production is getting lighter and gas production is spreading as unconventional formations feed export growth.

Oil companies fell behind in hardening their computer control systems against cyberattacks after the collapse of crude prices more than 3 years ago, according to cybersecurity experts.

Not paying attention to strategy is expensive. Each year, organizations waste millions of dollars in time, resources, and effort

Abdulmunim Al Kindy, upstream director at the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, delivered the keynote address at SPE’s international HSE conference in Abu Dhabi, saying that fundamental changes in work practices mean that effective HSE protection measures must remain at the center of operations.