Chor How Jat, executive director of Singapore’s Keppel Shipyard has assumed the role of acting MD of the yard’s businesses and operations following the sudden death of Nelson Yeo.
John Hunter has been appointed project engineering manager at Divex’s Westhill, Scotland headquarters. Greg Hewitt becomes the saturation diving systems supplier’s Asia Pacific region GM.
Julian Hammond was promoted to CEO and president of Tethys Petroleum following the resignation of David Robson on health grounds. Peter Lilley took over as non-executive chairman.
Kevin Revere has joined the Acteon group as VP, based in Kuala Lumpur. Previously VP operations in Wasco Energy’s pipe coating division, he will initially support Acteon’s Asia-based Cape business unit as it expands its subsea pipeline sector product and service offering.
Rahul Dhir stepped down as MD and CEO of Cairn India, reportedly to pursue other business opportunities.
Shyamal Bhattacharya has taken over as operations director at Indian state oil company subsidiary ONGC Videsh. An acknowledged authority on IOR, he once headed the Institute of Reservoir Studies in Ahmedabad.
Prosafe Rigs has entered into an agreement to sell the accommodation jackup Safe Esbjerg to an unspecified Southeast Asian buyer in a $55 million transaction.
The South China Sea didn’t get a lot of respect – until the last few decades anyway. Now the area that rests between China and its fledgling Southeast Asian neighbors has become a geopolitical flash point. Tensions turned into a shooting war in the 1970s and looks like it could again…
EnerMech has opened an office in Mumbai, India, and will follow up later in the year with a workshop and storage facility in Kakinada, Andra Pradesh, to serve its process, pipeline and umbilicals, cranes and lifting, engineering and valves divisions.
Fugro-TSM Asia Pacific has been awarded a five-year life of field support contract in Malaysia from Murphy Oil worth in excess of $140 million. Project management and engineering will be spread between the Fugro-TSM offices in Malaysia and Singapore.
Choo Chiau Beng and Loh Chin Hua, respectively CEO and CFO of Keppel Corporation, have been appointed to the board of KrisEnergy as non-executive directors. The appointments follow Keppel’s purchase of a further $115 million worth of…
Datuk Mohd Anuar is the new head of Petronas’ upstream development and production division, responsible for the division’s activities in Malaysia as well as in 23 countries worldwide. Anuar, who joined Shell in 1990 and served most recently as VP Malaysia…
Steve Watson is heading up EnerMech’s first office in India (see ‘Firms’) and will also serve as Mumbai-based country manager. He previously worked for Halliburton and managed pipeline and process projects in India for ONGC, Cairn Energy, Aker and Helix Energy Solutions.
Terrence Singam has been named sales director East Asia for UK-based metering, processing, treatment and control solutions provider Alderley, based in Singapore. He previously worked for FMC, Tyco and Emerson.
Breda-headquartered Dockwise is rapidly expanding its business beyond heavy marine transportation, and carried out its first jacket launch in the Bay of Bengal earlier this year. Meg Chesshyre talks to Dockwise's Fons van Lith in this opener to OE's Netherlands offshore industry review…
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