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Santos appointed Vanessa Guthrie as an independent nonexecutive director on its board of directors. Guthrie has experience in the mining industry across a variety of roles, including operations, environment, community, indigenous affairs, corporate development, and sustainability. She was previous a managing director and CEO of Toro Energy Limited and VP of sustainabl…

Manfred Vonlanthen has been named CEO of Swire Oilfield Services, a supplier of cargo carrying units to the offshore energy industry. Vonlanthen joined the company in 2014 as general manager for its Norwegian division before becoming director of its North Sea operations last September. In addition to managing the North Sea business, he served on Swire's executive mana…

BP named Melody Meyer to its board of directors. Meyer retired from Chevron on 1 June 2016 after 37 years with the company. She is the former president of Chevron Asia Pacific Exploration and Production and has experience in global upstream operations, strategic and business planning, and major capital projects such as the Tengiz project in Kazakhstan. She was vice pr…

Kraken Sonar has named Neil Riggs as a senior project manager. Riggs recently spent 5 years with the Autonomous Ocean Systems Laboratory of Memorial University of Newfoundland, where he was the project manager of an underwater robotics program. He is a member of the Professional Engineers and Geoscientists--Newfoundland and Labrador and one of two founders of the Ocea…

Materia appointed Neal Gilmore as vice president of operations. Gilmore has more than 25 years of experience in chemical process and manufacturing operations,. He served as vice president of operations at KMCO from 2013 to 2016 and wes general manger at Marsulex from 2011 to 2013. Gilmore holds a BS in chemistry from Texas A&M University.

Eirn Energy named Femi Ayoade as its CEO. Ayoade has served as vice president of production operations since 2016 and as the managing director of Erin Petroleum Nigeria since 2013. Prior to joining the company, he was a technical manager at Allied Energy, where he held leadership positions in a number of areas including drilling, petroleum engineering, and project and…

The global oil giant Shell is concealing data showing thousands of Nigerians are exposed to health hazards from a stalled cleanup of the worst oil spills in the nation’s history, a German geologist contracted by the multinational has said.

OPEC has renewed its effort to prop up global crude prices, but the impact may also drive US production higher.

Five years ago, an attack on nearly two dozen US natural gas utilities set off alarm bells in the US intelligence community. Many gas companies say they have shored up security since then. But the sector’s overall cyber readiness is a black box even to those charged with overseeing it.

Safety technologies, procedures, policies, and programs have all evolved, yet there still remains a lot of work to do in many industries and workplaces to transform safety behaviors and attitudes.

Increasing lateral lengths, stage counts, and proppant intensity levels are contributing to a bullish outlook on frac sand demand.

This paper describes the sociodemographic, occupational, and health characteristics of “green collar” workers, a vital and emerging workforce in energy-efficiency and sustainability.