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The Oil & Gas Industry Guidance on Voluntary Sustainability Reporting acts as a framework for improving the quality and consistency of voluntary sustainability reporting. This paper discusses the most recent update to the guide, and offers an overview of the discussed social performance indicators.

A proactive approach with EPC contract bidders to front-end load HSE strategies will pay dividends. This paper discusses the HSE management strategy for the Lake Charles Liquefied Natural Gas project.

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.

Since the Macondo disaster, industry publications have discussed the equipment, connections, and interfaces needed for capping and containing a blowing subsea well, but they give little insight into developing a well-specific subsea capping contingency plan.

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…

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…

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.