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The annual SPE PFC Technical Section dinner will take place during ATCE in Dubai on 26 September.

DNV’s new training center will run full-scale experiments for a joint industry project aimed at investigating cost-efficient explosion load descriptions for process areas.

Decision making is a critically important part of engineering. In this article, the author argues that the day-to-day project execution decisions are more important than major project decisions and deserve more attention.

A closer look at the design and construction of Statoil’s subsea gas compression systems in the Åsgard and Gullfaks fields, the first of their kind in the oil and gas industry.

Operators must take a more practical and less theoretical approach to the design and construction of three-phase separators, with an honest assessment of their separation needs.

A new chapter begins today for Oil and Gas Facilities.  In our move to an online publication, we’ve done far more than offer a different way of reading our content. Explore the many ways you can find the content that is most relevant and valuable to you.

Nigel Hearne has been named managing director of Chevron’s Australasia business unit (ABU). Hearne joined Texaco in 1989, prior to its merger with Chevron, and served as operations manager for the Pembroke refinery in the United Kingdom and for Chevron’s refinery in El Segundo, California, before becoming vice president of strategy for the company’s downstream strateg…

SPE PFC Technical Director Howard Duhon announces the incoming PFC Technical Director and shares his experiences from his trip to Alaska for the June SPE Board meeting.

The Industry Technology Facilitator has appointed Richard Luff to its board as a nonexecutive director. Luff, who currently serves as senior vice president at Intecsea, has more than 40 years’ experience in the oil and gas sector. He has worked in subsea industries around the world, including Saudi Arabia, Norway, Brazil, and the United States. In 2007, he joined a st…

ExxonMobil Corporation elected Angela Braly to its board of directors. She was previously chairman of the health insurance company WellPoint from 2010 to 2012 and president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the company from 2007 to 2012. Prior to that, Braly held various senior executive positions at WellPoint, including general counsel and chief public affairs off…

The oil price downturn has created a precarious job market for aspiring engineers, especially in disciplines like flow assurance that are closely linked to high-cost deepwater development. However, despite the economic climate, it is still possible for people entering the job market to succeed.

Why CFD should be part of your separator design? This goal of this goal is to allay any fears about CFD that you may have as a result of flashbacks to university class and a dizzying array of partial-differential equations.