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Subsea 7 agreed to acquire the remaining shareholdings in its joint ventures, Normand Oceanic AS and Normand Oceanic Chartering AS, from Solstad Farstad ASA.

A recently published standard addresses the need for a comprehensive set of common requirements for operators and contracting companies at fabrication yards.

At the recent Leaders in Industry luncheon in Houston, Jonny Jones told the interesting story of how Jones Energy grew from a small private entity to a company whose shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange.

The Lieberman Rapid Enterprise Defense Suite is a series of software modules designed to help operators meet US federal cyber security regulations for critical infrastructure. It consistes of a series of modules that focus on different areas: identity management, systems management, services management, task management, and communications management. It creates a clos…

Jean-François Saint-Marcoux won the 2017 SPE Projects, Facilities, and Construction Award. Saint-Marcouxis an industry consultant. He spent 40 years working in engineering and engineering management, with a specialty in flow assurance and hydrodynamics, contributing to the design of deepwater riser systems. After 2 years with Cameron as a wellhead engineer, he joined …

Aqualis Offshore, a marine and offshore engineering consultancy, appointed Bjarte Røed as head of its Norwegian operations. Røed previously served as head of engineering and risk consulting with the firm, a position he had held since August 2015. Prior to joining Aqualis, he worked as technology manager and managing director of Future Subsea in Norway, and as senior p…

Not doing process safety tasks correctly the first time can result in grave consequences for you, your co-workers, the community and the environment.

Sustainability for the oil and gas industry depends as much on cultural, organizational,and human performance paradigms as it does on technology. To retain our social license to operate—and, perhaps, even to exist—we need to close gaps in health, safety, and environmental performance.

Honeywell announced that its Callidus Technologies business began operation of China's only facility capable of testing flare emissions for volatile organic compounds.

The LivePIPE II from Fotech is designed to help oprators protect pipelines against damage and leaks. The system has a 100-km monitoring range from individual dual-channel fiber sensors with no loss of detection accuracy. It does not require power along the pipeline, and its modular design is equipped to fir any pipeline structure and adapt to an expanding pipeline net…

In a talk to SPE’s Gulf Coast Section International Interest Group, Ecuador’s Minister of Hydrocarbons outlined his country’s push to attract international oil and gas investment.

The Dakota Access pipeline can continue operating during a new federal review of the project’s environmental impact, a federal judge ruled on 11 October.