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Chuck Matula, SPE, Shashi Rajagopalan, SPE, and Lyle Lehman, SPE, founded Shale 2.0, a data analytics company focused on the improvement of completion strategies for oil and gas operators. Matula was previously an officer at ThruBit, cofounder and owner of Quantico Energy Solutions, and held executive positions at Weatherford and Halliburton. He is a graduate of Texas…

C. Susan Howes, SPE, was appointed vice president of engineering at Subsurface Consultants and Associates. She will be responsible for maintaining the technical quality standards for the company’s recruitment, consultancy, and training services. Howes began her career at Anadarko and held a variety of engineering positions in reservoir engineering, operations, mergers…

Charles Williamson was appointed to the board of directors at Greyrock Energy. Williamson worked in various positions at Unocal for 28 years, including a 5-year stint as chairman and chief executive officer at the company, until its acquisition by Chevron in 2005. From August to December 2005, he served as an executive vice president at Chevron. He also served as chai…

Greyrock Energy added Andrew Hinkly to its board of directors. Since 2012, Hinkly has served as executive head of marketing at Anglo American Platinum. He joined Anglo American in 2008 as group head of procurement and supply chain. Prior to that, he worked for 20 years at the Ford Motor Company, including time spent as executive director of Americas procurement from 2…

Ştefan Traian Mocuţa, SPE, died on 28 October 2015 at age 83. An SPE member since 1994, he was awarded the SPE Regional Service Award for South, Central, and East Europe in 2004 for his contributions to the establishment and development of the SPE Romanian Section. Mocuţa was a member of the SPE Enhanced Oil Recovery European Steering Committee and was actively involv…

Ashtead Technology named Graeme Booth as a regional technical support leader. In this role, Booth will provide customers with technical support covering equipment rentals and customer engineered packages for survey and remotely operated vehicle operations. Booth has spent more than 25 years in the subsea industry. He joined Ashtead from Subsea 7, where he held a numbe…

Oilfield Helping Hands appointed Gregory Rachal as president. Rachal previously held positions with M-I SWACO and Halliburton in sales, product line and account management, operations, and product management across the United States. He also worked with major and independent operators in Houston and New Orleans. Rachal holds a BS in industrial art from Northwestern St…

SPE is inviting volunteers to become members of its opinion panel to help shape the future development of the society’s products and services.

The SPE Europe Board has approved spending £10,000 to extend SPE’s Energy4me program in Scotland.

Oceaneering appointed Jon Erik Reinhardsen to its board of directors. Reinhardsen is currently the president and chief executive officer of Petroleum Geo-Services (PGS), a marine geophysical company. Prior to joining PGS in April 2008, he served as president of global primary products growth at Alcoa for three years. He has also worked for Aker Maritime's in merger an…