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A company in Tokyo, AgIC, developed a circuit marker pen with a silver-based conductive ink that dries and becomes conductive immediately on circuit paper. And an eraser removes traces of the ink. Because the circuits are made on paper, folding is possible as long as it doesn’t break the circuits. Flexible circuits can be printed by using the special ink in home inkje…

SPE education initiative Energy4me held its first Russian teacher workshop during the SPE Russian Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Technical Conference and Exhibition in Moscow on 16 October, the final day of the three-day event.

Swire Oilfield Services named John Bruce Rae-Smith as its chief executive officer. Rae-Smith has been with the company since 1985 in various roles, notably as managing director of Swire Pacific Offshore. Most recently, he served as director of Swire Pacific and executive director of the company’s trading and industrial division. He holds a master of arts degree in eng…

InterMoor appointed Joe Price as country manager for InterMoor Canada. Price holds 14 years of experience in the offshore oil and gas industry, working on the engineering, procurement, construction, and installation of mobile and permanent mooring systems with operators and contractors. He holds a degree in ocean and naval architectural engineering from Memorial Unive…

Kenneth George Nolte, SPE, died 6 July 2016. He was 74 years old. He was recognized as a legend of hydraulic fracturing and was most known for his contribution to the Nolte-Smith Plot, which revolutionized the interpretation of net-pressure behavior during and after hydraulic fracture treatments. Nolte’s work in his earlier years also made a significant contribution t…

Ganesh Thakur, SPE, was appointed distinguished professor of petroleum engineering in the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston (UH) by Texas Governor Greg Abbott as part of the Governor’s University Research Initiative (GURI). Thakur will also serve as the director for Energy Industrial Partnerships at UH. He is the president and global advisor a…

A new chapter began in July for Oil and Gas Facilities, SPE’s publication dedicated to the projects, facilities, and construction discipline. Launched as a print magazine in 2012, its move to an online publication, www.spe.org/ogf, offers more than a different way of reading the content. The homepage is issue-independent and presents the latest content, and searching …

A new initiative by the SPE Gulf Coast Section is helping out-of-work members find jobs and is bringing entrepreneurial ideas into fruition.

James Lee Rike, SPE, of Tickfaw, Louisiana, died on 3 August 2014. He was 87. An SPE member since 1949, Rike played a key role in the development of new completion concepts, directional perforators, sand control using plastics, coiled tubing rigs, concentric tubing workover/completion operations, and advanced offshore completion practices. He authored patents and pape…

SPE Gulf Coast Section’s Permian Basin Study Group held its third annual High School Invitational in November at the Norris Conference Center in Houston, Texas. The luncheon was led by Texas A&M drilling professor and retired ExxonMobil chief drilling engineer Fred Dupriest, who gave a presentation titled, “What We Need From This Generation, and Steps to Help Them Ach…