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Ben H. Caudle, SPE, professor emeritus and former chair of The University of Texas at Austin’s Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering and a former member of the SPE Board of Directors, died 6 February at the age of 95.

Stress Engineering Services (SES) promoted Kenneth Bhalla to chief technology officer. Prior to his promotion, Bhalla led SES’ drilling, completion, and intervention systems subpractice and was one of the key architects of the company’s award-winning Realtime Fatigue Monitoring System. He has more than 20 years of experience in technology, software and hardware develo…

Henderson, a provider of sales and service of drilling rigs and capital drilling equipment, named Billy Rogers the new president of the drilling products division. He brings more than 40 years of oilfield experience to his new role. Prior to joining Henderson, he managed construction, refurbishment and upgrades of land and offshore rigs for Nabors, Atwood Oceanics, an…

Groupement Isarene awarded a $1-billion contract to Petrofac for the Ain Tsila Development Project in Algeria. Groupement Isarene is the joint operating group set up by Sonatrach, Petroceltic, and Enel.

Woodside awarded Subsea 7 three contracts since December 2018, each for engineering studies and includes an option for Woodside to proceed to the execute phase with an engineering, procurement, construction, and installation (EPCI) contract.

i-Tech 7, Subsea 7’s life-of-field business unit, appointed Simon Hird a regional director to help strengthen and grow its business in the Asia-Pacific region. Hird has more than 40 years’ experience in the subsea oil and gas industry and has worked for several major contractors in the construction and life-of-field sectors. He joins i-Tech 7 from UTEC Survey where he…

Editor’s Note: SPE’s Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Section (SPE-KSA) recently celebrated its 60th anniversary with a ceremony hosting Saudi Aramco President and CEO Amin H. Nasser. SPE-KSA is the largest section outside the US, with more than 11,000 members, and has won 11 consecutive SPE President’s Awards for Section Excellence. This article was written by Section Chairma…

First Exploration and Production Development has agreed to a contract with Yinson Holdings to operate an FPSO for the Anayala and Madu oil discoveries offshore Nigeria. The fields are in oil mining leases 83 and 85 in the shallow-water Niger Delta.

J.G. (George) Savins, SPE, an SPE Legion of Honor member and technology inventor in the field of rheology, died 11 January. Awarded a BS in chemistry in 1949, Savins started his career as a chemist at the FRL Research and Development Group. His career then gradually evolved to cover diverse research interests and saw significant technical achievements in fluid flow an…

Sempra LNG named Justin Bird president. He will be reporting to Carlos Ruiz Sacristán, chairman and CEO of Sempra North American Infrastructure. Bird led the continued development of Sempra's five LNG projects in his prior position as chief development officer for Sempra North American Infrastructure. He previously led the $7.4-billion project financing of the Cameron…