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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.

Jacques Bosio, SPE’s first non-American President and a pioneer in horizontal drilling, died 14 January. He was 85.

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…

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Shell New Energies executive vice president Mark Gainsborough will step down in April and be replaced by Elisabeth Brinton. Brinton joined Shell in 2018 and is currently vice president for strategy at New Energies. Before joining Shell, she was executive general manager of power company AGL Energy’s New Energy division in Australia.

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 board of Smiths Group appointed Karin Hoeing as an independent nonexecutive director effective 2 April. On joining the board, she will become a member of the Remuneration Committee. Hoeing is BAE Systems Group human resources (HR) director and joined the company in 2018 from Schlumberger, where she was president, wireline. Before that she held a number of senior H…

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.