Sir Ian Wood was presented with a special lifetime achievement award by Oil & Gas UK last month.
NOVCFO Williams to head National Oilwell Varco National Oilwell Varco, Inc. (NYSE: NOV) announced today that Clay Williams has been named President and Chief Operating Officer of National Oilwell Varco.Mr. Williams has served as the Company’s…
Ukrainian officials with Jordi Sarda BonvehiUkraine signs fake deal on state television Oilprice.com - Certainly the folks at Gazprom are having a good snicker, reveling in the mockery that has been made of what should have been a landmark…
Rune TorhaugDet Norske Veritas (DNV) has appointed Rune Torhaug as the new Managing Director for DNV Research and Innovation. He has worked internationally with leadership roles in DNV Energy, DNV Maritime and DNV Business Assurance.Torhaug has a strong background in risk and reliability…
Mustang has acquired a majority stake in Latin American automation and control engineering and consulting firm ISI Solutions for an initial consideration of $5.2 million. The company will be rebranded ISI Mustang and will continue to be led by Pedro Santamaria and the existing management team…
Allison Walker has stepped up from UK sales manager to director of sales & marketing at health and safety training specialist Falck Nutec, based at the firm's Aberdeen training centre in Dyce.
Andrew Pfaff has been appointed Oilex's GM operations, based in India. The appointment will transition to full-time when project approvals for the firms Cambay JV are finalised. He was previously operations manager for Burlington Resources and ConocoPhillips in China.
Danny Hall, former VP of legacy company Jarvis Freight International, has been promoted to VP strategic business development for the Houston-based Crowley Maritime logistics group. David Higgs, former director of Crowley's product logistics…
Dominic Wright has joined Xodus as flow assurance lead in Houston. He has more than 10 years' subsea engineering experience.
Donald Bearb has been named assets and maintenance manager of Devin International, based in Lafayette. He served most recently as Devin's operations manager in Macaé, Brazil, and prior to that was with Weatherford International for 38 years.
Francisco Villagran has been appointed to the new Inchcape Shipping Services role of regional operations manager, Americas, based in Chile.
Gary Rich has joined Parker Drilling as president and CEO. A 30-year veteran of the drilling services sector, Rich spent 25 of those years with Baker Hughes, serving most recently as VP global sales and prior to that as president of the company's European operations.
SVP marketing and business development with Atwood Oceanics, will step down from that post at the end of this year and will retire from the company effective 31 December 2013. Geoff Wagner, currently marketing and business development director…
Gretchen Watkins who recently took over from the retiring Jim Bowzer as Marathon's VP North America production operations.
Hock Goh has been appointed to the board of directors of Australian independent Santos. During a 25-year career with Schlumberger, Goh held senior positions in Asia, the Middle East and Europe, including president of network & infrastructure solutions, president Asia, and VP and GM, China.