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  • InterMoor, an Acteon company responsible for mooring, foundations, and subsea services, has completed its 10th straight year of operation without any lost-time incidents.
  • Public clouds are one of the emerging technologies that are minimizing the cost of processing the big data of the oil and gas industry. Among the hurdles to the wide-scale adoption of the cloud are security and access cost.
  • Fluid Efficiency and Rhapsody Venture will partner to refine and launch a new molecular technology to improve the flow in pipelines.
  • The House voted 218–195 to strip funding for an Obama-era EPA effort to limit methane emissions from new oil and gas drilling sites. Eleven Republicans voted against the amendment, and three Democrats voted to block funding for the regulation.
  • Bourbon has reshuffled its executive team, naming Jacques de Chateauvieux as its executive chairman and Gaël Bodénès as its CEO.
  • Abstracts are being accepted through October 14 for the next International HSE Conference to be held in Abu Dhabi, UAE, in April 2018.
  • Halliburton and Microsoft believe that by working together they can step up the pace of digital transformation across the E&P industry.
  • The results of a virtual reality (VR) safety simulator and gaming experience presented by Lloyd’s Register at SPE Offshore Europe suggest that more needs to be done in training and understanding the daily risks of oil rig maintenance and operation.
  • The UK’s Marine Accident Investigation Board has released its report on the grounding of the Marshall Islands registered semisubmersible rig Transocean Winner on the Isle of Lewis following the loss of tow from the Dutch registered tug ALP Forward on 8 August 2016.
  • The DJI Spark is a miniature drone that can produce high-resolution imagery for facility inspection. The lightweight unit utilizes the Intel Movidus Myriad 2 vision processing unit (VPU), a processor used for accelerating machine vision tasks such as object detection, three-dimensional mapping, and contextual awareness through deep learning algorithms at high speed. T…
  • BCCK Holding Company appointed Kevin J. Blount as vice president of corporate development to support company growth in the global gas processing, LNG, and petrochemical markets. He has more than 30 years of experience with Chart Industries, serving in a variety of senior management roles across a wide spectrum of business activities including operations, engineering, …
  • McDermott appointed Philippe Barril to its board of directors. Barril has served as COO at SBM Offshore since March 2015 and has over 25 years’ experience in the offshore oil and gas construction industry, including engineering and project management. He has held key positions of increasing responsibility for various companies, including as president and COO of Techni…
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