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When the underlying cause of flow-related issues on offshore projects is unknown, an expert said an investigation of fluid flow behavior based on an understanding of the first principles of flow assurance is necessary.

Earthquake in Cushing, OK -- home to the largest oil storage facility in the world -- leads to further regulatory action on disposal wells in the area.

The five top offshore producing nations produce 43% of all the oil offshore.

Charles Williamson was appointed to the board of directors at Greyrock Energy. Williamson worked in various positions at Unocal for 28 years, including a 5-year stint as chairman and chief executive officer at the company, until its acquisition by Chevron in 2005. From August to December 2005, he served as an executive vice president at Chevron. He also served as chai…

Greyrock Energy added Andrew Hinkly to its board of directors. Since 2012, Hinkly has served as executive head of marketing at Anglo American Platinum. He joined Anglo American in 2008 as group head of procurement and supply chain. Prior to that, he worked for 20 years at the Ford Motor Company, including time spent as executive director of Americas procurement from 2…

SPE Production and Facilities Technical Director Hisham Saadawi shares the discussion from the annual ATCE PFC dinner panel on the topic “Integration Between Facilities and Subsurface Engineers: Crucial in an Era of Low Price Oil.”

BP appointed Nils Andersen as a nonexecutive director of its board of directors. Andersen previously served as group chief executive of A.P. Møller-Mærsk from 2007 to 2016. From 1999 to 2007, he worked for Carlsberg and Carlsberg Breweries, first as executive vice president and then as president and chief executive officer. He is a nonexecutive director at Unilever, w…

Natural-gas-infrastructure reliability is critical for the energy sector. When capitalizing on old pipelines to transport natural gas, operators run the risk of partial blockage. In this study, the authors develop a multirate test method to detect partial blockage in a gas pipeline.

Looped lines are used to reduce pressure drop and increase flow capacity, but information on the flow behavior or predictive methods are not available for these systems.

As governments around the world seek to lower energy consumption in the wake of the low oil price environment, the 2016 SPE President said the industry must be proactive in ramping up its sustainability efforts.

Lessons learned in debottlenecking a “dirty” triethylene glycol contactor at the ExxonMobil Upstream Research Company’s LaBarge Black Canyon Facility in Wyoming highlight the results of work performed between 2001 and 2004.

Ashtead Technology named Graeme Booth as a regional technical support leader. In this role, Booth will provide customers with technical support covering equipment rentals and customer engineered packages for survey and remotely operated vehicle operations. Booth has spent more than 25 years in the subsea industry. He joined Ashtead from Subsea 7, where he held a numbe…