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Joseph Bramande joins Pulse Structural Monitoring as the business development manager of marine systems, including mooring lines and subsea infrastructure. He joins the company after 5 years with ExxonMobil as the project controls lead of the PNG liquefied natural gas project in Papua New Guinea. Bramande holds a BS in civil engineering from Louisiana Tech University.

ExxonMobil Corporation elected Angela Braly to its board of directors. She was previously chairman of the health insurance company WellPoint from 2010 to 2012 and president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the company from 2007 to 2012. Prior to that, Braly held various senior executive positions at WellPoint, including general counsel and chief public affairs off…

With the oil and gas industry facing an uncertain financial future, organizations are looking for any way to save costs. One way to achieving cost savings is through efficient planning in the construction and conversion of floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) units. In a technical session, “Practical Steps Towards FPSO Cost Reduction,” held Wednesday at…

Complexity is the central challenge of executing deepwater major capital projects, and the industry must find ways to reduce it for future projects to be viable, Chevron’s General Manager of Facilities Engineering Mick Kraly told a luncheon audience Tuesday at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston. “Major Capital Projects Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Is The…

The discovery of the Zohr natural gas field, the largest in the Mediterranean region, has begun to rejuvenate prospects for the Egyptian economy. Located offshore Egypt, the Zohr field holds more than 30 Tcf of gas in place. Onshore site preparation began in March, and first gas to market is expected in December 2017.

Moving oil/water separation equipment from platforms to the seabed looks inevitable, but based on the current rate of adoption it could take forever.

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…

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…

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 …