Occidental Petroleum Corporation elected Vicki A. Hollub to vice president of Occidental Petroleum and executive vice president – U.S. Operations, Oxy Oil and Gas. Hollub heads the company’s domestic operations. She previously served as executive vice president…
Mexico's leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution (PRD) announced this week that it will hold a Conference on the Defense of Energy Sovereignty from October 24 to 27. The PRD will disseminate information explaining its opposition to President Enrique Peña Nieto’s plans for energy reform…
Colloquy: Editor's Column Many stakeholder programs benefit from oil industry funding and local community approval gives oil companies a social license to operate. Just before the Offshore Europe conference in Aberdeen, I discovered the…
UK-based engineering firm Wood Group is to form a joint venture with Germany’s Siemens to provide integrated rotating equipment services. The JV will comprise the maintenance and power solutions businesses of Wood Group GTS (excluding its Rolls Wood Group…
Karl Johnny Hersvik has been appointed as the new chief executive officer of Det norske oljeselskap ASA, effective May 1, 2014. Hersvik comes from Statoil, where he served as senior vice president of research and development in Trondheim since 2011…
Origin Energy announced October 3 that Kevin McCann will retire as chairman and director after the company's annual general meeting on October 23. The board has elected Gordon Cairns to succeed McCann as the chairman of the board of directors…
Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. has announced that Lawrence R. Dickerson, President and Chief Executive Officer, has decided to retire after more than 30 years of service. 'I have had the pleasure of knowing and working with Larry for the past 25 years…
More needs to be done to attract new talent into the industry, says Patrick Phelan, managing director of Aquaterra Energy, and a member of the Oil and Gas Industry Council. The council, set up earlier this year, recently helped develop the UK Government’s Industrial Strategy…
C-MAR Group has highlighted the UK’s escalating skills gap as the most critical issue facing the UK industry today. Speaking as the industry gathered for the Offshore Europe Conference in Aberdeen today, Chief Operating Officer Peter Aylott…
Genel Energy chief executive Tony Hayward will give the keynote presentation in today’s SPE Offshore Europe session, The Independent Oil Company—Mighty oaks from little acorns grow (10-12.30pm, Gordon B). We asked the former BP chief executive…
The UK oil and gas industry has served our country for over 100 years. It delivers the energy needed to fuel and power our economy, provides vital revenue for the UK Treasury and supports about 450,000 jobs in Britain. The oil and gas industry has an impressive history…
I am very excited about the future of the oil & gas industry in the North Sea and internationally. The theme of this year’s SPE Offshore Europe conference is The next 50 years – but 50 years ago no-one could have predicted the way the UK oil & gas industry would develop or how we operate now…
OneSubsea, the newly formed subsea partnership between Cameron and Schlumberger, is making its first major show debut this week. The company, which started trading on June 30, has already announced a US$500 million contract with Chevron on the North Sea Rosebank development…
The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Aberdeen Section has announced two new categories for this year’s Offshore Achievement Awards, which launch on October 1. The awards, supported by TAQA, have a 27-year history of celebrating outstanding…
In the short-term, a lack of transition training to capture transferable skills is the biggest human resources issue for the industry, says industry skills body OPITO. “The Transition Training Programme (TTP) is a fast-track course which takes workers with relevant…