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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.

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.

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…

Oceaneering appointed Jon Erik Reinhardsen to its board of directors. Reinhardsen is currently the president and chief executive officer of Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS), a marine geophysical company. Prior to joining PGS in April 2008, he served as president of global primary products growth at Alcoa for three years. He has also worked for Aker Maritime's in merger an…

Oilfield Helping Hands appointed Gregory Rachal as president. Rachal previously held positions with M-I SWACO and Halliburton in sales, product line and account management, operations, and product management across the United States. He also worked with major and independent operators in Houston and New Orleans. Rachal holds a BS in industrial art from Northwestern St…

Mekers Offshore, a Zhejiang-based company, launched its first in a series of liftboats at Shanghai Bestway Dajin Heavy Industries yard in Jiangsu, China.

Kashagan crude reached the global markets. The world’s most expensive upstream project restarted production and about 195,000 barrels, produced during the startup process, were shipped for export.

The report was written by a steering committee of SMEs with industry input from an SPE summit as well as members from SPE online communities. It is based on discussions and conclusions from the summit and is intended to provide guidance on an industry-wide safety management data sharing program.

In this column, Howard Duhon provides a book report on Nancy Leveson’s "Engineering a Safer World."

The outlook for the US onshore oil business is looking better, which is not to say it is looking up. Recent surveys by the Federal Reserve banks of Kansas City and Dallas indicated the industry had stabilized after a long period in critical condition.

IoT has become a popular phrase in various industries. For upstream oil and gas operators, an IoT infrastructure may present an opportunity improve quality control on their projects, potentially reducing costs and increasing production.