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PQ Corp. elected Belgacem Chariag chairman of the PQ board of directors. He is the president and CEO of the company since 2018. Before joining PQ, he was chief global operations officer at Baker Hughes, a GE Company, after Baker Hughes’ merger with GE Oil & Gas. Chariag has more than three decades of experience in the industry. His previous executive roles at Baker Hu…

Chevron has awarded Subsea 7 with a “sizeable” contract for subsea installation services at the St. Malo field in the US Gulf of Mexico. The scope of work will include project management, engineering, procurement, construction, and installation of the multiphase pump system at the field. It will also include a 14-mi water injection flowline system and the water inject…

Andrew Gould, former chairman and CEO of Schlumberger, was elected to Occidental’s board of directors effective 1 March. Gould has more than 40 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. He began his career at Schlumberger in 1975 and held positions of increasing responsibility. He was the chairman and CEO of the company from 2003 to 2011. He was non-executive c…

BW Offshore has signed an extension with Eni subsidiary Nigerian Agip Exploration for the use of the Abo FPSO until the end of 4Q 2020, with options until 4Q 2021. The FPSO has operated at the Abo field offshore Nigeria since 2003. It has a production capacity of 44,000 B/D of oil, a water injection capacity of 33,000 B/D, gas compression capacity of 48.4 MMcf/D, and …

Aker Solutions has signed a contract to provide subsea control systems for Phases 4 and 5 of Beach Energy’s Otway project offshore Victoria, Australia. The order includes 7 sets of Vectus subsea control modules (SCMs), which will be backward compatible to the existing topside MCS and EPU, along with associated stab plates and testing equipment.

Montage Resources Corp. appointed Randall M. Albert, SPE, member of the board of directors, as chairman of the company board following Michael Jennings’ resignation from the position. Albert will serve on the company’s Audit and Compensation committees. He was previously a member of the board of Montage Resources' predecessor (Eclipse Resources Corp.) since 2014 and w…

SPE Drilling & Completions

GTT has been contracted to provide the Hyundai Heavy Group companies with equipment for eight LNG carrier newbuilds. Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) and Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries (HSHI) will build the vessels, with each company set to build four vessels. Each vessel will be capable of transporting 174,000 m3 of LNG.

The Way Ahead (TWA), SPE’s publication serving young professionals, is accepting nominations for its “TWA Energy Influencers 2020: Young Professionals Who ENERGIZE Our Industry” recognition.

Stress Engineering Services (SES) acquired Laserstream, a company specializing in laser mapping of tubular assets. The acquisition will add high-resolution pipe inside-diameter scanning hardware and imaging software to SES’ technology portfolio for its service offering of nondestructive testing, asset condition-based maintenance and monitoring, predictive data analyti…