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HSE Now has been launched on a new online platform, consistent with SPE's other magazines. HSE Now curates content about health, safety, security, environment, social responsibility, regulations, and sustainability from SPE and other publications. HSE Now is a great way to stay current with developments in these areas relevant to the oil and gas industry. Sign up for …

Trelleborg's skirt pile gripper is designed to create a temporary connection between an offshore platform's pile and the jacket during the grouting process. Welded onto the upper section of the jacket skirt pile, the gripper reduces risk during platform installation. Until the grout between the pile and the jacket has set and the installation is complete, the gripper …

Sparrows Group named Matt Corbin as its regional operations director for the UK and Europe. Corbin has more than 20 years of industry experience, having held several leadership positions including UK managing director for the subsea division at Aker and UK regional manager at GE Oil & Gas. Most recently he was the supply chain consultant for the Oil and Gas Authority,…

The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland developed a drone that becomes the package that wraps around the cargo (weighing up to 500 grams) before flight, just like a mail package. The foldable carbon-fiber cage protects the drone and the cargo in case of a collision or fall. The recipient can catch the drone mid-flight without being injured b…

Bourbon has reshuffled its executive team, naming Jacques de Chateauvieux as its executive chairman and Gaël Bodénès as its CEO.

Brazil is now the largest oil producer in Latin America, ahead of Mexico and Venezuela*. As a result of the government’s energy reforms, OTC Brasil is a timely venue for investment opportunities in the country.

On 9–11 October, the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) will again assemble exploration and production (E&P) professionals from around the world for the 2017 Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE) at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas, USA.

The Cerebra Artifical Intelligence and Industrial Internet of Things (IoT) system from Flutura allows operators to reduce the cost of field maintenance by doing remote digital diagnostics. It features pinpoint failure mode initiation to help further understand the event symptom pathways that lead to failure buildup, and it has curative and preventive symptom identific…

With the A Peer Apart award, SPE recognizes those dedicated individuals involved in the review of 100 or more papers for SPE’s peer-reviewed journals.

Melody B. Meyer, SPE, was appointed as a member of NOV’s Board of Directors. Meyer was with Chevron for more than 37 years and held various positions of increasing responsibility, including in domestic and international operations, strategy and planning, and leading new technology development. She was the president of Chevron Asia Pacific Exploration and Production fr…