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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.

Rex Tillerson, SPE, US Secretary of State and former chairman and CEO of Exxon Mobil Corp., will be recognized for his “outstanding contribution to the oil and gas industry” with World Petroleum Council’s highest honor, the Dewhurst Award, during the 22nd World Petroleum Congress (WPC) to be held in Istanbul from 9 to 13 July. The award celebrates Tillerson’s exceptio…

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…

Transvac’s sand slurry ejectors provide a reliable method of pumping and pressure boosting sand slurry entrained from separators. With no moving parts and no maintenance, they provide an alternative to mechanical pumps. The ejectors utilize the energy available from high-pressure motive liquid (such as produced water) to entrain sand slurry from a separator and then p…

Theo Bruijninckx will take over as CEO at Huisman Offshore. Bruijninckx will be responsible for the overall daily operation of the company, while outgoing CEO Joop Roodenburg will focus on technical solutions and customer relations in his new role as president of the company. Bruijninckx has served as CFO at Huisman since 1 May 2017. He joined the company from Ballast…

Darcy Spady, 2018 SPE president, visited engineering faculty and students at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur in March. Spady met with Malaysian Student Chapters representatives and had separate meetings with Professor Aziz Rahman, dean of faculty of engineering, and Badrul Mohamed Jan, the university student chapter adviser. Members of six SPE student chapter…

Xodus appointed Simon Allison operations director for the Asia-Pacific region. He will be responsible for the management of the group’s office, including business development and new market development. Allison was previously the company’s general manager in Scotland. He has worked more than 20 years in the oil and gas industry.