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The Noble Jim Day semisubmersible (left) arrived at Harbor Island in Port Aransas, Texas, on 29 July to be cold stacked.

2H Offshore named Yann Helle as managing director. Helle, who had previously held the position of technical manager, managed the TLP top-tensioned riser system delivery management project for Total’s Moho Nord field development. He joined the company in 2002 and has experience in riser and conductor systems, minimum facility platforms, and component package supply. He…

Advisian appointed Geeta Thakorlal as president of INTECSEA. She succeeds Neil Mackintosh, who will take on the role of executive vice president of global market sales. Thakorlal has more than 30 years of management and professional services experience, the last 25 years coming in the international oil and gas sector. She has worked primarily in upstream for greenfiel…

In a market assessment tool for US exporters, the US Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration ranked 74 markets based on export potential for US oil & gas equipment through 2019.

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.

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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.