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Statoil selected the name “Empire Wind” for its offshore wind site located off the southern coast of Long Island, New York. The company also recently stepped into solar power in Brazil.

During the dismantling and removal of fire-water-pump columns of superduplex stainless steel barely 1 year after plant startup in a redeveloped brownfield offshore Nigeria severe localized pitting corrosion was observed in the columns. This paper explores the findings and identifies the reasons.

McDermott announced a letter of award for a contract from Reliance Industries for the deepwater KG-D6 subsea field development in the Krishna Godavari Basin.

With these synopses of technical papers from OnePetro you can join the author for conferences in Kuala Lumpur, New Orleans, and Lagos, all while sitting in your chairs and without any travel expenses.

Antero Resources has built a huge plant to turn waste water into fresh water and salt for sale. The $275-million investment in West Virginia is the most tangible indication of how operators in the Marcellus are pushing water reuse.

Simmons Edeco named Niels Versfeld CEO. Versfeld has 14 years of experience in the energy industry, including 10 years managing sales, operations, and business development for energy services companies. Before joining Simmons Edeco, he served as general manager of Gibson Energy’s environmental services division. He previously worked as COO of Palko Environmental until…

The Pure Pack System from Pentair is a portable system for secondary and tertiary produced water and wastewater treatment. With oil content as high as 5 to 10% at the inlet, the system can yield low-ppm oil at the outlet, and the recovered oil may be processed or sold to deliver value for the end user. No on-site sludge generation or management is required.

Schneider Electric's OASyS SCADA system provides enterprise SCADA for pipeline operations. The system includes real-time performance updates, advanced alarm management, and historical and real-time trending. Its middleware connects and communicates with various modules to enhance responsiveness, and systemwide monitoring uses the least intrusive course of action to re…

At a recent global meeting of operations research and management sciences professionals in Houston, an ExxonMobil research executive stressed the importance of optimization and data analytics to company operations.

ValvTechnologies named Cliff Horsburgh regional director of Asia Pacific operations. Based in Kuala Lumpur, Horsburgh will have senior management responsibility for sales activity in the region. He has more than 30 years' experience in the valve and pump industry, spending most of his career with the Weir Group. He has held international sales and general management r…

Alex Pourbaix has been named CEO of Cenovus Energy effective 6 November. Pourbaix spent 27 years at TransCanada in a variety of leadership positions, most recently as COO, until his retirement from the company in May. While serving as COO at TransCanada, he led commercial initiatives such as the development of the company's power and oil pipeline business. Pourbaix ho…

InterMoor, a subsea services group of Acteon, named Mark Jones global CEO. Jones is currently vice president at Acteon. He previously served as a managing director for a division of EXPRO and as head of strategy and business development for Siemens Subsea before joining Acteon.