Milestones

The Oil & Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) has officially launched the third year of its award-winning accelerator program, TechX, with the announcement of new industry partner, Equinor.

Ocean Specialists Inc. (OSI), announces that Dan McLeod will be joining OSI in the role of Vice President, Government and Defense Markets.

Richard will be leading the company’s vessel operations and activities as the Director of Marine Operations at TDI-Brooks.

OPITO, a global, not-for-profit skills organization for the energy industry, has collaborated with drilling employers to develop an online assessment to reinforce the competency of roustabouts.

During a ceremony at the IADC Annual General Meeting in New Delhi, IADC President Frank Verhoeven announced the Safety Award 2019 winner: Boskalis with its Floating Line Connecting System.

Reed Exhibitions, a world’s leading event organizer, under the patronage of the UAE Ministry of Climate Change and Environment, is launching Oceanology International Middle East 2020, a biannual event in Abu Dhabi, from September of next year.

ECO Magazine (Environment, Coastal and Offshore) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO have announced a new Editorial Partnership for 2020 in support of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. ON&T and ECO are both published by TSC Strategic.

Dubai will host the ‘2019 FIRST Global DXB Challenge’ in the fields of robotics and artificial intelligence from October 24 to 27, 2019 at Festival Arena in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Global safety, skills and competency training organization, RelyOn Nutec, has appointed Bob Donnelly as new managing director for their UK business to lead the expansion of the UK and join RelyOn Nutec’s global management team.

A globally recognized advanced drilling, well engineering and well control training business is investing more than a million pounds to open four new training centers.

Cyberhawk Innovations Limited (Cyberhawk), a global leader in UAV inspection and creators of cloud-based asset management platform iHawk, has announced a significant increase in its software development capabilities following the acquisition of Arum’s cloud-based software development team in Edinburgh.

Element Materials Technology (Element) has opened the doors to its expanded Center of Excellence for Oil & Gas materials testing in Houston. This follows a successful integration of people and expertise, while bringing enhanced capacity and capability.