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Chevron has committed USD 1 million to support SPE programs aimed at increasing student participation and advancing energy education.

Ashtead Technology named Graeme Booth as a regional technical support leader. In this role, Booth will provide customers with technical support covering equipment rentals and customer engineered packages for survey and remotely operated vehicle operations. Booth has spent more than 25 years in the subsea industry. He joined Ashtead from Subsea 7, where he held a numbe…

Oilfield Helping Hands appointed Gregory Rachal as president. Rachal previously held positions with M-I SWACO and Halliburton in sales, product line and account management, operations, and product management across the United States. He also worked with major and independent operators in Houston and New Orleans. Rachal holds a BS in industrial art from Northwestern St…

BWA offers its Bellasol oilfield antiscalant product line (Fig. 5) that meets Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science standards. The suite of products includes a biodegradable antiscalant (68% in 28 days per the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development Test 306) that is hydrothermally stable to 180°C, is compatible with biocides and other…

SPE is inviting volunteers to become members of its opinion panel to help shape the future development of the society’s products and services.

Two conventional attempts to run a 7-in. liner to total depth (TD) in a Norwegian North Sea well had been unsuccessful, with the liner hanging up hundreds of meters from TD. The problem was caused by borehole instability and severe washout in the weak shales, coals, and notorious paleosols of the area. A sidetrack was drilled successfully, and the liner was run with D…

John C. Calhoun, SPE, a former SPE president who dedicated his career to higher education and civil service, died 29 November 2012. He was 95.

A Distinguished Lecture on “Advances in Reservoir Management Technologies” was hosted by Ecuador’s minister of nonrenewable natural resources, Wilson Pástor, and more than 200 attendees from the Ecuadorian energy community in December. Economist Carlos Marx Carrasco, the director general of the Ecuador Internal Revenue Service, and Zhang Xing, executive president of A…

SPE’s Latin America and Caribbean region is introducing two new technical conferences this year. They are the SPE Artificial Lift Conference–Americas, and the Latin America and Caribbean Health, Safety, Social Responsibility and Environment Conference.

H.J. “Hank” Gruy, SPE, a former SPE president whose company was a pioneer in transitioning engineering calculations from mechanical calculators to computers, died 19 December 2012. He was 97.