Eric Toogood, Diskos manager for the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, and Espen S Johansen, vice president marketing & commercialization – production & completion systems for Weatherford, have been elected to Energistics’ board.
Will Jephcott has retired as a director of ROC effective immediately. He was a founding director, holding the post since February 1997. Jephcott also served as chairman of the Audit & Risk committee.
BP has named Lamar McKay chief executive of upstream. He will lead the exploration, and developments and production divisions with the upstream strategy and integration team. McKay has spent 32 years with BP. Since 2009, he served as chairman and president of BP America…
Viking SeaTech Survey has chosen Matthew Gordon as its general manager. He will be responsible for the new Survey international business unit.
Stefan Nerpin has been named DNV’s new group VP of communications & external relations. Nerpin will report to CEO Henrik O Madsen. Rune Torhaug is promoted to MD of DNV Research & Innovation. Torhaug has worked in leadership roles at DNV Energy, DNV Maritime and DNV Business Assurance.
Ray Frisby (pictured) has been named technical director for TAM International. Frisby will lead development of new technologies. Company subsidiary TAM Completion Systems has appointed Jim McGowin as its general manager. He will be charged with establishing…
Stuart Gilligan has been appointed marine field sales engineer by Outreach, a supplier of marine canes, davits and rescue cranes. Gilligan will focus on the UK marine and offshore sectors, and be responsible for field sales of the Palfinger range of marine cranes…
A Houston company specializing in the repair and rehabilitation oil & gas industry pipeline reports that it has successfully completed phase one of a nanotechnologybased research project. A SBIR grant from the US National Science Foundation funded Pipe Wrap’s research…
Cavotec deployed its MoorMaster technology for Dutch private ferry company TESO. The vacuum-based automated mooring technology eliminates the need for conventional mooring lines. Remote-controlled vacuum pads can be mounted to the quayside or on pontoons for easy mooring and release…
TD Williamson has released Interactive Report 2013, a new proprietary inline pipeline inspection reporting software. The Windows-based data visualization tool provides a variety of customized views, including charts, graphs, and 3D layout, to help locate potential trouble spots.
Liebherr will debut a new subsea crane with knuckle boom, RL-K 7500, at its plant in Rostock, Germany, this month. The crane has both active-heave compensation and a vertical winch, frame-lifting system. The RL-K 7500 has a lift capacity of 260t and can work in water depths to 3400m.
Singapore’s Kreuz Subsea took possession of a new Saab Seaeye Panther XT Plus ROV displayed at OSEA 2012. Saab Seaeye boosted the ROV’s power management, offering 50% more power and reduced its size, requiring less deck space. Its 10 thrusters allow operation in currents greater than four knots…
US-based NAMJet recently provided a propulsion solution for Norwegian shipbuilder Westplast AS’s new seismic survey vessel WP950. The vessel is powered by twin 15in TraktorJet TJ 381 water jets, which can propel the vessel to 28 knots and provide 6393lb of bollard pull…
Natural gas is still not a global fungible commodity, although the LNG trade steadily grows as projects and the global fleet expand. ExxonMobil thinks that worldwide natural gas use will grow more than any other fuel – by 65% over the next 30 years…
Nina M. Rach COLLOQUY: Editor's Column Despite the widespread pop-culture interpretation of the Mayan calendar, the world did not end in an apocalypse on 21 December 2012, just as the Y2K date bug did not cause utilities and other critical infrastructure to fail on 1 January 2000…
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