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This year’s SPE Asia Pacific Oil & Gas Conference and Exhibition (APOGCE) will take place in Bali, Indonesia, for the first time.

InterMoor appointed Joe Price as country manager for InterMoor Canada. Price holds 14 years of experience in the offshore oil and gas industry, working on the engineering, procurement, construction, and installation of mobile and permanent mooring systems with operators and contractors. He holds a degree in ocean and naval architectural engineering from Memorial Unive…

Kenneth George Nolte, SPE, died 6 July 2016. He was 74 years old. He was recognized as a legend of hydraulic fracturing and was most known for his contribution to the Nolte-Smith Plot, which revolutionized the interpretation of net-pressure behavior during and after hydraulic fracture treatments. Nolte’s work in his earlier years also made a significant contribution t…

Ganesh Thakur, SPE, was appointed distinguished professor of petroleum engineering in the Cullen College of Engineering at the University of Houston (UH) by Texas Governor Greg Abbott as part of the Governor’s University Research Initiative (GURI). Thakur will also serve as the director for Energy Industrial Partnerships at UH. He is the president and global advisor a…

A group of 233 Saudi Aramco engineers were recognized at a luncheon in October for achieving passing scores on the SPE Petroleum Engineering Certification Exam, earning Aramco an 85% pass rate since it began prepping employees for the exam in 2010. The ceremony was held at Saudi Aramco’s Upstream Professional Development Center (UPDC) in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, and was…

SPE Gulf Coast Section’s Permian Basin Study Group held its third annual High School Invitational in November at the Norris Conference Center in Houston, Texas. The luncheon was led by Texas A&M drilling professor and retired ExxonMobil chief drilling engineer Fred Dupriest, who gave a presentation titled, “What We Need From This Generation, and Steps to Help Them Ach…

In November, Bahareh Nojabaei, PhD student at Pennsylvania State University; Mehmet Torcuk, PhD student, Colorado School of Mines; and Vahid Dokhani, PhD student and teaching/research assistant at the University of Tulsa, were each honored with Nico van Wingen Memorial Graduate fellowships. Winners each receive up to USD 5,000 per year toward tuition. To be eligible f…