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Schlumberger and Weatherford are forming a joint venture to tackle the North American unconventionals oilfield services market.

Royal Dutch Shell CEO Ben van Beurden is to speak at the opening plenary session at SPE Offshore Europe 2017, which is being held in Aberdeen from 5–8 September.

Mubadala Petroleum, an Abu Dhabi-based exploration and production company, appointed Bakheet Al Katheeri as its chief executive officer (CEO). Al Katheeri previously served as chief growth officer at the company, where he was responsible for new business development along with mergers and acquisitions. He was also Mubadala's chief operation officer (COO), overseeing o…

Jessica Uhl took over as chief financial officer (CFO) at Royal Dutch Shell. Uhl joined Shell in 2004 and has held various finance leadership roles in the company's upstream, integrated gas, and downstream businesses, as well as in its projects and technology business and its corporate headquarters. Before being appointed CFO, Uhl served as executive vice president of…

An offshore worker has called for action after he and colleagues were exposed to radiation, BBC Scotland can reveal. The incident happened on EnQuest’s Thistle platform, off Shetland, last December.

Honeypots and pen testers. If these terms are unfamiliar, you’ll want to learn their roles in the safekeeping of critical evaluation and operational data in oil and gas activities, from the reservoir to the well pad to pipelines.

This first article in a two-part series discusses a new methodology for sizing and rating three-phase separators that is based on quantifying the actual mechanisms and physics that govern performance in typically used equipment.

Western Europe is the first area outside of the US Gulf of Mexico to see large-scale decommissioning. Well decommissioning is forecast to account for the majority of the expenditure.

Atos, a global leader in digital services, and Siemens, a global engineering leader, announced that they have entered into a memorandum of understanding and will leverage their portfolios to help customers establish an integrated first line of defense against cyberattacks.

An underwater safety center will be constructed in Asia to simulate diving activities and subsea emergency procedures.

An investigator from the US National Energy Technology Laboratory examines the role remotely operated vehicles played in flow rate estimation from the Macondo well.

You would never hear the manager of an oil company say they are a late adopter of technology but, in reality many are. By better understanding both sides of table, technology developers and oil and gas operators may find they can accelerate adoption cycles beyond the status quo.