Last month’s Annual Meeting of the European Association of Geoscientists and Engineers (EAGE) in London was by far the largest in the EAGE’s history. Over 8000 delegates showed up at the conference and exhibition at the Excel Centre in London to create plenty of buzz…
Andreas Chrysostomou has been appointed the 111th President of the Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST) at its annual general meeting on 21 March 2013. Richard Vie has been appointed President Elect…
About 50 students from across Europe will take part in the inaugural Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Europe Petro League, which will be hosted by the Aberdeen Section during the Offshore Europe conference, 3-6 Sept. This competition…
A group of 24 nations and the EU are meeting in Bremerhaven, Germany, July 11-16, to discuss revised proposals to create two marine protected areas (MPAs) in the ocean surrounding Antarctica. If approved, these may become the largest marine reserves on Earth…
ThoughtStream: Opinion In today’s continually evolving oil and gas industry there are always emerging issues to address. Collaboration within the industry can be a vital cog to deliver new solutions to the most pertinent problems and plug technology gaps…
Colloquy: Editor’s Column The American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) has developed a new African exploration GIS database, as the Edward G. Purdy Memorial Project, honoring the late geologist (b. 4 December 1931, d. 13 October…
US Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) Director James A. Watson will step down from the agency in order to join maritime class society ABS as its president and chief operating officer (COO) of the Americas Division, effective September 2…
Shortage of skills is the biggest challenge facing the energy industry and a UK conference heard that recruiting more women could help resolve the problem. The need to develop more expertise to cope with growing demand for engineers in…
Royal Dutch Shell’s downstream director is to take over from Peter Voser as chief executive of the company, starting January 1, 2014. Ben van Beurden, 55, a Dutch national, graduated with a Master’s Degree in chemical engineering from Delft University of Technology…
Edinburgh-based oil and gas chemical monitoring firm LUX Assure has appointed Charles Cruickshank as its new CEO and opened new offices in Aberdeen. Cruickshank has 27 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry, having previously…
Jessica Alm, head of communications at Sandvik Coromant, has been appointed Executive Vice President and Head of Group Communications as well as member of the Group Executive Management of Sandvik AB. She will take up her new position as of 1 July 2013…
In a move designed to bring advanced risk-management capabilities to America’s energy industry, the Deloitte Center for Energy Solutions and the NASA Johnson Space Center have entered into a strategic alliance to offer services to oil and gas companies…
Transmark Subsea CEO Johan Møller Warmedal joined the company on January 1 this year. Before joining Transmark, he worked for AGR, FMC Technologies and Schlumberger, where he started his career more than 25 years ago as a wireline logging engineer…
ABB appointed Ulrich Spiesshofer, the head of its Discrete Automation and Motion (DM) division, to succeed Joe Hogan as CEO. Spiesshofer will transition into this role on September 15, 2013. Hogan will continue with ABB for an unspecified amount of time as senior advisor to the board…
Claxton Engineering Services Ltd, appointed Gerry Miller as VP sales, marketing, and commercial in a drive to strengthen its sales, marketing and commercial team. His base will be at Claxton’s headquarters in Great Yarmouth, UK. Ongoing…