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The American Petroleum Institute (API) named Mike Sommers the new president and CEO to succeed Jack Gerard who announced earlier this year that he will step down this summer after a decade at API. Sommers brings 2 decades of political experience to API, including his current role as president and CEO of the American Investment Council (AIC). Prior to joining the AIC a…

Lonestar Resources CFO Doug Banister retired on 30 April. He will provide consulting services to the company on a going-forward basis. Jason N. Werth has joined the company as the chief accounting officer and Gregory R. Packer joined as general counsel. Werth's most recent position was director of audit at Denbury Resources. He previously held positions at Arthur Ande…

Oceaneering's self-contained, battery-powered (cage-mounted 100-kW battery pack) remotely operated vehicle (E-ROV) system performs common ROV tasks including inspection, valve operation, torque tool operation, and manipulator-related activities. The system interfaces with the company's onshore Mission Support Center via a 4G mobile broadband signal transmitted from a …

Subsea Technologies' 2-in. hydraulically retractable subsea coupler is designed to optimize the engagement and disengagement of control line and large-bore fluid-containing lines in large subsea mechanical connectors. The coupler allows for greater flexibility in designing remote emergency release systems for subsea applications and enables people to be removed from s…

Orville D. Gaither, 1990 SPE President and an SPE Foundation trustee, died 29 June. Gaither’s presidency was marked by the opening of several international SPE sections and his extensive traveling to visit members around the world. When recollecting his presidency, Gaither often used “Enroute” to sum up the year, in which he journeyed 25,000 miles in commercial airlin…

Seacroft Marine Consultants named Richard Pearce marine engineering and dynamic poisitioning (DP) manager. Pearce has 16 years of experience in engineering and technical disciplines of the marine and offshore industry. He most recently served as technical manager of the Fletcher Group and as service delivery manager at Bibby Offshore, where he was responsible for oper…

Gall Thomson's Petal17 marine breakaway coupling offers a light design that allows for greater buoyancy and handling in offshore product transfer. Its unit status indicators enable visual inspection without the need to remove the unit from the line, giving operators quantifiable data that can be logged and monitored. The coupling's locking petals improve sealing in ha…

The HiPer TwinLine Separator and Degasser from Sulzer is a patented compact inline separator designed to remove liquid from gas or gas from liquid in two stages. It can be used as a standalone unit or in combination with convetional separators and scrubbers as a hybrid design. It can help debottleneck existing separators and is typically design and constructed accordi…

ConocoPhillips elected Sharmila Mulligan to its board of directors. Mulligan is the founder of ClearStory Data, a software company, and has previously served in senior roles at Aster Data, Hewlett-Packard, Netscape, and Opsware. She has experience in cloud computing, scalable data analytics, and other data technologies. Mulligan holds bachelor's degrees in business an…

Winners of Dronestagram's 2017 Annual International Drone Photography Contest are announced. Among the submissions from talented professional photographers and amateur drone photo enthusiasts, three in each of the four categories of nature, people, urban, and creative were announced winners.