Chris Mann (pictured) has been appointed operations director Scottish-based pipeline rehabilitation specialist Swagelining. He previously served as an offshore construction manager with BP West Africa.
James Browning has been elected as non-executive chairman of oil & gas industry remote communications specialist RigNet.
Åge Landro (pictured), former EVP of AGR Field Operation, has returned to the Norwegian group as EVP strategy & integration. Landro moved to Oceaneering in December last year when AGR completed its sale of the field operations business unit to Oceaneering.
Jeffrey Platt stepped up from COO to president and CEO on 1 June following Dean Taylor’s retirement after 34 years with the company. Jeffrey Gorski, who joined Tidewater in January year after a 28-year stint with Schlumberger, succeeds Platt as EVP and COO.
Dave Workman has been appointed to the new position of COO and Erik-Jan Bijvank (pictured) as SVP UK and Africa at Stork Technical Services, based in Aberdeen. Workman served as CEO of the former RBG business, which Stork acquired in May 2011…
Daljit Gill became COO of Energean Oil & Gas Group, an independent E&P company with operations in Greece and Egypt, on 1 June. He joined from Weatherford International, where he served as VP global business development based in The Netherlands, and had previously worked for Shell and BP.
Lyazzat Kiinov (pictured) has been appointed chairman of KazMunaiGas Exploration Production, the Kazakhstan oil & gas company whose overall production averaged 250,000 boe/d last year.
Lester Clark (pictured) has been appointed VP at specialist subsea services group Acteon. He joins the group from Baker Hughes, where he was director for drilling systems in the Russian Caspian region.
Peter Cockcroft (pictured) has been appointed non executive chairman of Perth, Western Australia based Kairiki Energy. Cockcroft, currently chairman of SPE’s Singapore chapter, led Premier Oil into the Philippines in 2004 and more recently…
Peter van Rossum will join SBM Offshore as CFO on 2 July. He has been CFO of Unibail-Rodamco SE and its predecessor Rodamco Europe since 2006, and prior to this served Royal Dutch Shell 24 years in Europe, the Middle East, the US and Asia.
Simon Zoller has joined Rialto as drilling manager and will oversee the company’s threewell campaign in Côte d’Ivoire block CI 202, which began in March with the spudding of the Gazelle–P3 well, as well as future drilling operations. He previously…
Alasdair Buchanan (pictured) has been named as COO of Senergy and MD of its energy services division. The former senior director of strategy in Houston and UK VP for Halliburton takes over from Mike Bowyer, who has held the position…
Brian Russell and Dan Hampson were the inaugural honorees of the first Canadian Society of Exploration Geophysicists (CSEG) symposium, held in Calgary. They founded Hampson-Russell Software & Services, now a CGGVeritas company, in 1987.
Bruce Thames (pictured) has been promoted to SVP and COO at pipeline equipment and services supplier TD Williamson. He has 25 years’ international oil & gas industry experience and joined TDW in 2005, serving most recently as VP eastern hemisphere.
Cynda Maxon (pictured) and Skip Newton have joined InterAct PMTI as senior project director and senior scientist, respectively, broadening the company’s environmental capabilities and services. Maxon has more than 20 years’ global experience as an environmental chemist…
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