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Jacques Bosio, SPE’s first non-American President and a pioneer in horizontal drilling, died 14 January. He was 85.

Montage Resources Corp. appointed Randall M. Albert, SPE, member of the board of directors, as chairman of the company board following Michael Jennings’ resignation from the position. Albert will serve on the company’s Audit and Compensation committees. He was previously a member of the board of Montage Resources' predecessor (Eclipse Resources Corp.) since 2014 and w…

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Shell New Energies executive vice president Mark Gainsborough will step down in April and be replaced by Elisabeth Brinton. Brinton joined Shell in 2018 and is currently vice president for strategy at New Energies. Before joining Shell, she was executive general manager of power company AGL Energy’s New Energy division in Australia.

GTT has been contracted to provide the Hyundai Heavy Group companies with equipment for eight LNG carrier newbuilds. Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) and Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries (HSHI) will build the vessels, with each company set to build four vessels. Each vessel will be capable of transporting 174,000 m3 of LNG.

The board of Smiths Group appointed Karin Hoeing as an independent nonexecutive director effective 2 April. On joining the board, she will become a member of the Remuneration Committee. Hoeing is BAE Systems Group human resources (HR) director and joined the company in 2018 from Schlumberger, where she was president, wireline. Before that she held a number of senior H…

The Way Ahead (TWA), SPE’s publication serving young professionals, is accepting nominations for its “TWA Energy Influencers 2020: Young Professionals Who ENERGIZE Our Industry” recognition.

Stress Engineering Services (SES) acquired Laserstream, a company specializing in laser mapping of tubular assets. The acquisition will add high-resolution pipe inside-diameter scanning hardware and imaging software to SES’ technology portfolio for its service offering of nondestructive testing, asset condition-based maintenance and monitoring, predictive data analyti…

The deadline for nominating members for international and regional awards is fast approaching. SPE awards recognize members for their technical contributions, professional excellence, career achievement, service to colleagues, industry leadership, and public service.

Applied Petroleum Technology appointed Helge Nyrønning as CEO. Nyrønning was previously managing director and head of business development at Akastor-owned subsurface consultancy group First Geo (now AGR). Before this he spent 9 years with the predecessor to First Geo, Aker Geo.