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SEMPCheck Services appointed Tad LeBlanc as vice president of operations. With more than 30 years of oil field-related experience, LeBlanc held senior management positions in production operations, mechanical integrity, and health, safety, and environmental, and regulatory compliance. Most recently, he served as vice president of health, safety, environmental, and reg…

Willbros Group promoted Mike Futch from vice president and general manager of Willbros Construction to senior vice president of regional and integrity construction. Futch directs the northeast and southeast regional business units. He also assists customers in the pipeline industry in developing compliance solutions for the Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty, and J…

UniversalPegasus International (UPI) named Tim Brown as senior vice president of business development. Brown has more than 30 years of experience in the engineering and construction sectors. He comes to UPI from Jacobs Engineering, where he held the position of global vice president of inside sales and marketing. Brown was responsible for downstream, upstream, chemica…

This is the third article of a series on water management for hydraulic fracturing in unconventional resources. This month, water treatment technologies are introduced, beginning with the removal of suspended solids by coagulation/flocculation and electrocoagulation for recycling flowback fluids.

Mario Azar was named CEO of the solutions business unit in the oil and gas division of Siemens’ energy sector. Before the appointment, he was executive vice president of Siemens Energy’s gas turbine power plant solutions in the fossil power generation division with responsibility for the business in North and South America. He started his career at Westinghouse Electr…

This is the time of year new graduates join our companies. There is tremendous talent coming into our industry. Over the years, I have developed a number of “observations/home truths,” which I invariably share as part of the dialogue around careers and opportunities.

Chet Morrison Contractors named Michael Brown as general manager of marine construction. Brown has 35 years of experience in the commercial diving industry. Most recently, he held an 8-year tenure as vice president and general manager at EPIC, the commercial diving business unit of TETRA. Brown is an active member of several industry associations and committees, inclu…

Conversion of very large crude carriers to FPSO's can speed time to first oil under the right conditions, there are many considerations in the planning and execution of these conversions.

We are comfortable with the reality of swift intuitive judgement being the primary decision-making approach of experienced engineers in emergency situations. But as the engineer in the situation has less experience available to him/her, how do psychological factors affect outcomes?

This paper is investigates installed cost overruns of pipeline-compressor-station projects, using data from more than 200 projects. Results of the analysis show that project size, capacity, location, and year have different impacts on individual component overruns.

Valuation of the enhanced flexibility offered by platform-based development solutions and sequential subsea solution is difficult. This leads to the question: Are development solutions being selected without taking sufficient account of option values?

Energy development projects that affect local communities frequently face opposition. This article describes an approach to dealing with local communities that has proved effective.