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SPE delegates met with representatives of the Myanmar Ministry of Energy and the Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE) in Yangon in September. Among the items discussed were the potential for establishing an SPE section in Myanmar, and how the technical interests of MOGE could be served by SPE’s technical resources. Seven companies operating in the southeast Asian coun…

Timothy C. Dugan, SPE, was selected as the new chief operating officer for Consol Energy’s exploration and production division. With more than 30 years’ experience across many major US gas fields, he previously worked at Chesapeake Energy, most recently serving as vice president of its Appalachia South business unit. Starting in 2009, Dugan directed Chesapeake’s opera…

The oil and gas E&P industry faces big challenges to meet the world’s growing energy needs and the solutions are uncertain. For that reason, SPE is holding a Research and Development (R&D) Competition to encourage researchers from the basic sciences and other engineering disciplines to engage these challenges. The competition focuses on six Grand Challenges identified…

OceanWorks, a subsea solution engineering company, appointed Glen Viau to the position of president. Based out of the company's Vancouver office, Viau will oversee the company's submarine rescue systems, seafloor observatory systems, and subsea systems departments for the oil and gas market, among other things. He holds more than 24 years of experience in the subsea t…

SPE has honored several university professors for their excellence in teaching and efforts to recruit faculty and students to petroleum engineering schools.

Sevan Marine named Reese McNeel as its chief executive officer (CEO) effective 1 January 2017. McNeel is currently the company's chief financial officer (CFO) and will continue in the role after assuming CEO duties. McNeel has previous experience in several interim finance management positions, including a stint as interim CFO at Sevan Marine in 2001. He previously se…

Steen Karstensen was appointed as chief executive officer of Maersk Supply Service effective October 24. Karstensen joined Maersk in 1986 and has spent the last 30 years with the company, working in procurement, logistics, supply chain, in-house consultancy, and other crossfunctional areas. Karstensen previously served as the company's chief procurement officer, overs…

Chevron named Rhonda Morris corporate vice president of human resources (HR). Morris, who was previously the company's vice president of HR for downstream and chemicals, will oversee its HR, diversity and ombuds, and medical and health services groups. She joined Chevron in 1991 in the Corporate HR Development Program. Since that time, she has held a number of roles o…

SPE now has a presence in Myanmar. Its 214th section—the Myanmar Section—was established 25 September 2013. The SPE International Board of Directors meeting this month will be held in Yangon, and the section’s inauguration will become official with that meeting. According to Jeff Spath, SPE president, in his column in this issue of JPT, the new Myanmar Section’s prese…

Jeff Spath, 2014 SPE president, recently met with Karen Agustiawan, president, director, and chief executive officer of PT Pertamina, during the SPE/IATMI 2013 Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition (APOGCE), held in October in Jakarta, Indonesia. The conference was a collaboration between SPE and the Society of Indonesian Petroleum Engineers (IATMI). Pertam…