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Enitome Buluku, who is pursuing an MSc degree in oil and gas engineering at the University of Aberdeen, won the SPE Aberdeen Section’s second biennial Energy Apprentice contest, which was held at the Douglas Hotel on 5 November. The contest pits university students from across Scotland in three elimination rounds that test professional and engineering skills required …

Baker Hughes and General Electric (GE) announced the executive team that will lead Baker Hughes, a GE Company, upon closing of their proposed transaction to combine GE’s Oil and Gas business with Baker Hughes. The executive team will consist of Lorenzo Simonelli, president and CEO; Maria Claudia Borras, SPE, president and CEO, oilfield services; Belgacem Chariag, chie…

Brian Ferguson will retire as director of Cenovus effective 31 October, continuing in a transitional advisory role until 31 March 2018. Ferguson joined a predecessor company in 1984 and became a member of Cenovous' management team in 1994. He led the company through its USD 17.7 billion acquisition from ConocoPhillips, which included the company's two steam-assisted g…

Veolia's CoStrip is a system that provides pretreatment to reverse osmosis membrane systems. It removes benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, and various other dissolved gases depending upon the application. It extends the life of reverse osmosis membranes due to the removal of volatile organics and eliminates the need for upstream treatmen…

Chris Nussbaum, SPE, died 5 May. He was the chairman of the SPE Aberdeen Section from 2009 to 2011. Nussbaum was interpretation development advisor at Archer UK, where he provided expert technical support in log processing and interpretation services for the global wireline division. He joined Archer in 2011 as data services manager. Nussbaum was the chief executive o…

Tom Knode, SPE, was appointed as director of health, safety, and environment (HSE) at Athlon Solutions. Before this, Knode worked on contract for Statoil and provided project-based HSE consulting through Contek Solutions. He was previously director of HSE standards and performance at Halliburton, where he worked for 25 years staring as a laboratory petrophysicist and …

SPE's Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition will be held 9-11 October 2017 in San Antonio, TX. Registration and housing for ATCE are now open.

On 1 June, Hardt unveiled Europe’s first hyperloop test facility on the TU Delft campus. Hardt was founded as a company by a number of the winners from Elon Musk’s hyperloop competition earlier this year. Together with the European construction company BAM, they have built a test facility for this futuristic transport system.

Rex Tillerson, SPE, US Secretary of State and former chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil Corp., will be recognized for his “outstanding contribution to the oil and gas industry” with World Petroleum Council’s highest honor, the Dewhurst Award, during the 22nd World Petroleum Congress (WPC) to be held in Istanbul from 9 to 13 July. The award celebrates Tillerson’s exceptio…

The SPS TE rectifier from GE is a single-phase, hot-pluggable, fan-cooled rectifier that provides DC power to space-critical applications in indoor and outdoor environments, such as a telecommunications network for an offshore facility. The rectifier has an extended temperature range and universal AC input voltage range. It also comes with redundant fan cooling, front…