David McKendrick (pictured) has been appointed head of group sales at Aberdeenshire-based deck machinery specialist ACE Winches, tasked with driving its global strategic sales growth. He joins the company from GE Drilling & Production Systems…
Einar Brønlund has taken over the management of Aker Wirth, an Aker Solutions drilling technologies subsidiary based in Erkelenz, Germany. He succeeds Christoph Kleuters, who is leaving the company at his own request.
Fraser Louden (pictured) has been appointed managing director of Reservoir Group’s well intervention and measurements business, based in Aberdeen. The former CEO, BDM and R&D manager of Read Well Services, who latterly served in an advisor role at FMC Technologies…
Geir Eik (pictured) has joined mooring and fluid transfer systems provider Sigma Offshore as VP internal turret systems. Eik, who has 40 years’ oil & gas industry experience, is based at the company’s Singapore office.
Gene Van Dyke, high-profile founder, president and CEO of Vanco Exploration, has resigned to pursue other opportunities. The board has tapped COO Jeff Mitchell as interim CEO until a long-term successor is identified.
Ian MacKenzie (pictured) takes over as CEO of Hardy Oil & Gas next month. A chartered mechanical engineer, he served most recently as an executive director of the KCA Deutag Drilling Group.
Malcolm Webb (pictured), chief executive of pan-industry trade association Oil & Gas UK, has accepted the role of chairman for next year’s SPE Offshore Europe conference in Aberdeen. Webb, who became the organisation’s CEO in 2004 when it was known as UKOOA…
Joe Miller (pictured) has been promoted to VP and GM of Greene’s Energy Group subsidiary Devin International. Based in Lafayette, Miller will oversee company management as well as sales efforts.
Lars Christian Bacher (pictured) has been appointed Statoil’s EVP development and production international and will take up the post on 1 September. He will succeed Peter Mellbye who is retiring after 30 years with the company. Bacher…
Lars Sørum becomes the new president of Norway’s Sintef Petroleum Research on 1 May. He is currently a research director at Sintef Energy Research.
Mike Dushinske (pictured) has joined the Houston sales staff of Cuming and will focus his efforts on the corporation’s C-Float and C-Therm syntactic foam deepsea buoyancy and thermal insulation product lines.
Torsten Marten (pictured) has taken up the new post of Brazil operations manager at NCS Survey, based in Rio. He joins NCS from Subsea 7, where he was a project surveyor on the Petrobras PRA-1 deepwater tie-in project.
Yasser Mufti (pictured) has been named Saudi Arabia governor for the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. He replaces Majid al-Moneef, a candidate to succeed Abdalla Salem el-Badri as Opec secretary general later this year.
Larry Burleson has been appointed director of business development for corporate services at Cudd Energy Services, tasked with building a global clientele for the company's integrated solutions. A 36-year petroleum industry veteran, he joins from Cudd Weir Seaboard, where he was VP sales.
Aw Chin Leng has been promoted to executive director of Singapore-based ship building, repair and conversion firm Otto Marine.
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