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The Cambay Joint Venture secured the Essar Rig 4 for drilling the Cambay-77H well in its Cambay Tight Hydrocarbon Project in the Cambay basin in India through Essar Oilfield Services. The well is expected to be spudded in the middle of the first quarter.

Baker Hughes and General Electric (GE) announced the executive team that will lead Baker Hughes, a GE Company, upon closing of their proposed transaction to combine GE’s Oil and Gas business with Baker Hughes. The executive team will consist of Lorenzo Simonelli, president and CEO; Maria Claudia Borras, SPE, president and CEO, oilfield services; Belgacem Chariag, chie…

China Oilfield Services Limited (COSL) has entered into a long-term cooperation contract with Pemex for COSL4, a 2,000‑HP module rig. The rig’s operation period will be more than 1,700 days.

Materia appointed Neal Gilmore as vice president of operations. Gilmore has more than 25 years of experience in chemical process and manufacturing operations,. He served as vice president of operations at KMCO from 2013 to 2016 and wes general manger at Marsulex from 2011 to 2013. Gilmore holds a BS in chemistry from Texas A&M University.

Drydocks World was awarded a USD‑730-million contract from Drill One Capital to construct a large rig for the North Sea. Completion of the CJ-80 jack-up rig is set for 2017.

Chris Nussbaum, SPE, died 5 May. He was the chairman of the SPE Aberdeen Section from 2009 to 2011. Nussbaum was interpretation development advisor at Archer UK, where he provided expert technical support in log processing and interpretation services for the global wireline division. He joined Archer in 2011 as data services manager. Nussbaum was the chief executive o…

Tom Knode, SPE, was appointed as director of health, safety, and environment (HSE) at Athlon Solutions. Before this, Knode worked on contract for Statoil and provided project-based HSE consulting through Contek Solutions. He was previously director of HSE standards and performance at Halliburton, where he worked for 25 years staring as a laboratory petrophysicist and …

Eirn Energy named Femi Ayoade as its CEO. Ayoade has served as vice president of production operations since 2016 and as the managing director of Erin Petroleum Nigeria since 2013. Prior to joining the company, he was a technical manager at Allied Energy, where he held leadership positions in a number of areas including drilling, petroleum engineering, and project and…

FLIR Systems appointed Jim Cannon president and CEO. Cannon previously served for more than 16 years in a variety of senior leadership positions at Stanley Black and Decker, most recently as president of Stanley Security North American and Emerging Markets. Priort to that, he was president of the company's industrial and automotive repair business united, first in Nor…

SPE's Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition will be held 9-11 October 2017 in San Antonio, TX. Registration and housing for ATCE are now open.