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SPE's 2015 round of winners has been announced for the Henry DeWitt Smith Fellowship, the SPE Foundation Gus Archie Scholarship, and the Imomoh Scholarship.

To inspire the next generation to get involved and solve problems through innovation, SPE and the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers (IOGP) have collaborated to launch the IOGP Outstanding Young Professional Award. The award will recognize achievements of E&P professionals who have fewer than 10 years of experience and have demonstrated outstanding tal…

Marathon promoted T. Mitch Little to executive vice president of operations. Little, who currently serves as the company’s vice president of conventional, will oversee its resource play and conventional businesses in his new role. He previously served as managing director of Marathon Oil Norge and as general manager for Marathon’s worldwide drilling and completions bu…

Researchers from MIT, Adobe, the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Toronto, Texas A&M, and the University of Texas developed a new language for programming simulations. Requiring only one-tenth as much code as hand-optimized simulations, the program Simit facilitated simulations that were dozens or even hundreds times as fast as those written in …

Carlos Murrieta Cummings was named managing director of Petroleos Mexicanos (Pemex). Murrieta served as corporate director of operations at Pemex from 2009 to 2015, where he was responsible for strategic planning, operational coordination of subsidiaries, consolidation, and implementation of sourcing strategies. Before joining Pemex, he served as managing director for…

Chevron named Dambisa Moyo to its board of directors, effective October 11. She will serve on the company’s Audit Committee. Moyo is an economist and is the founder and chief executive officer of Mildstorm. From 2001 to 2008, she worked for Goldman Sachs in various roles. Prior to that she worked at the World Bank. She currently serves on the boards of Barclays, Barri…

C. Susan Howes was named vice president of engineering at Subsurface Consultants and Associates (SCA). She will be responsible for maintaining technical quality standards for the company’s recruitment, consultancy, and training services. She will also participate in the direction, administration, and coordination of SCA’s operations, manage technical projects, and ser…

A group of 233 Saudi Aramco engineers were recognized at a luncheon in October for achieving passing scores on the SPE Petroleum Engineering Certification Exam, earning Aramco an 85% pass rate since it began prepping employees for the exam in 2010. The ceremony was held at Saudi Aramco’s Upstream Professional Development Center (UPDC) in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and was…

This year’s SPE Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition (APOGCE) will take place in Bali, Indonesia, for the first time.