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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…

BW Offshore acquired the tanker Blue Opal for USD 83.4 million from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering. The tanker is a 320,000-deadweight-ton very large crude carrier.

Fiona MacAulay will become CEO of Echo Energy effective 4 July. MacAulay, the current COO at Rockhopper Exploration, is a geologist with more than 30 years' experience in the oil and gas industry including stints at Mobil, Amerada Hess, and BG. She joined Rockhopper in 2010 following the companies Sea Lion discovery and was a member of the senior team that managed the…

Alpha Petroleum Resources named Charles Proctor as its new CFO. Proctor is a former executive at BP and Genel Energy with more than 28 years of experience in the international energy industry. He held several commercial and financial positions at BP early in his career, eventually becoming CFP for its exploration and production businesses in Angola and Azerbaijan. In …

Frank Hermance will retire as executive chairman of the board of directors at AMETEK effective 7 July. Hermance joined the company in 1990 as group vice president and then served as president of AMETEK's Precision Instruments Group from 1994 to 1996. He was promoted to COO in 1996, and in 1999 he was named CEO, a role he held until 2016. Current AMETEK CEO David Zapic…

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Changes coming to the anonymity tools underlying the darknet may make a deeper kind of online privacy possible. Soon anyone will be able to create their own corner of the Internet that’s not just anonymous and untraceable, but entirely undiscoverable without an invite.

Scientists have developed oxidized carbon particles that extract radioactive metals, such as cesium and strontium, from water. They said the materials may help purify contaminated waters stored after the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident and also can trap common radioactive elements found in waterfloods from oil extraction, such as uranium, thorium, and radium,