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Cairn Energy appointed Eric Hathon as its director of exploration. Hathon joins Cairn from Marathon Oil, where he was director of conventional exploration. He joined Marathon in 1991 as an exploration geologist, and since then he has worked in several senior international management roles in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Tan Ek Kia will take over as chairman of the board of directors of KrisEnergy. Tan joined the company’s board as a nonexecutive independent director in January 2013 and has more than 40 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry. He joined Shell in 1973 and worked in various positions in the company’s upstream oil and gas and petrochemical businesses, including a s…

Woodside named Richard Goyder as chairman of its board of directors, effective at the close of the company’s Annual General Meeting in April 2018. Goyder currently serves as the chief executive officer (CEO) at Wesfarmers; he will leave the company in November. He has worked for Wesfarmers since 1993 and was appointed to his current position in 2005.

The Dakota Access Pipeline is 99% completed and expected to begin flowing oil in March or April. Check out the 3D model of a drilling pad at the site generated from drone imagery.

As compressor stations are added to the natural gas gathering and transmission networks, the potential noise issues are coming under increasing public scrutiny at the same time as regulations are being rolled back.

Organizational determinants of shift work practices are not well characterized; such information could be used to guide evidence-based research and best practices to mitigate shift work’s negative effects.

Randy Schmidt has been named managing director of the Burns & McDonnell terminals and pipelines group. In 14 years with the company, he has led teams on a wide range of projects, including several major oil and gas pipeline, storage, and loading/unloading facilities for marine, rail, and truck modes of transportation. Schmidt has 24 years of professional experience, s…

A consultant examines the ways in which artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions may have a significant impact on industry operations.

CEO Bob Dudley, who calls BP’s UK North Sea business one of its “crown jewels”, will address hundreds of delegates at the opening plenary session at Europe’s foremost exploration and production technical conference and exhibition.

The potential of big data depends on the ability of companies to change the habits of its users.

In this first selection are papers dealing with scaling and corrosion, topics that affect all of us involved with oil and gas facilities. Early in my career I worked in corrosion, only to discover that without keeping scaling and corrosion in mind, it is impossible to be a good facilities engineer.

This paper considers some of the challenges and learnings associated with the application of chemicals for preservation of coated pipe/flowline for a major liquefied-natural-gas (LNG) project in Australia.