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On 1 June, Hardt unveiled Europe’s first hyperloop test facility on the TU Delft campus. Hardt was founded as a company by a number of the winners from Elon Musk’s hyperloop competition earlier this year. Together with the European construction company BAM, they have built a test facility for this futuristic transport system.

BW Offshore acquired the tanker Blue Opal for USD 83.4 million from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering. The tanker is a 320,000-deadweight-ton very large crude carrier.

Fiona MacAulay will become CEO of Echo Energy effective 4 July. MacAulay, the current COO at Rockhopper Exploration, is a geologist with more than 30 years' experience in the oil and gas industry including stints at Mobil, Amerada Hess, and BG. She joined Rockhopper in 2010 following the companies Sea Lion discovery and was a member of the senior team that managed the…

Alpha Petroleum Resources named Charles Proctor as its new CFO. Proctor is a former executive at BP and Genel Energy with more than 28 years of experience in the international energy industry. He held several commercial and financial positions at BP early in his career, eventually becoming CFP for its exploration and production businesses in Angola and Azerbaijan. In …

Frank Hermance will retire as executive chairman of the board of directors at AMETEK effective 7 July. Hermance joined the company in 1990 as group vice president and then served as president of AMETEK's Precision Instruments Group from 1994 to 1996. He was promoted to COO in 1996, and in 1999 he was named CEO, a role he held until 2016. Current AMETEK CEO David Zapic…

Claudio Descalzi, SPE, was nominated as chief executive officer (CEO) at Eni for a second 3-year term by the Italian government. Descalzi has been Eni’s CEO since May 2014. He joined Eni in 1981 as an oil and gas field petroleum engineer and became project manager for the development of North Sea, Libya, Nigeria, and Congo. In 1990, he was appointed head of reservoir …

Noel D. Rietman, SPE, died 4 March. He was 83. Rietman was the SPE President in 1987 and the president of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers in 1994. Much like the current year, Rietman’s year of SPE presidency saw the industry go through a downturn, with oil prices dropping steeply in 1986. In the May 2016 JPT issue, 2016 SPE Pre…

Joseph John (Joe) Taber died 29 December 2016 at the age of 96. He was a Distinguished Member of SPE and the Improved Oil Recovery Pioneer Awardee in 1990 from SPE and the Department of Energy.

Phaneendra Kondapi, SPE, was appointed founding director of engineering programs and professor of subsea engineering at the University of Houston Cullen College of Engineering Katy Campus. Kondapi was previously director of subsea engineering and professor of practice at Texas A&M University. He has more than 20 years of experience in the industry including with FMC T…

A message from David Quirk, SPE Canadian Educational Foundation Chair, and Helen Chang, SPE Canadian Educational Trust Past Chair