Tekena Dokubo (pictured) has joined GL Noble Denton as country manager, Nigeria, following the opening of the company’s first West African base in Lagos.
Rob Fisher (centre) has joined Senergy Development Solutions (SDS), the fast-evolving engineering and project management group established in Aberdeen last August. Previously with Technip, he joins fellow directors Stuart McAuley (left)…
Ali Al Hauwaj has been appointed exploration manager for Caspian player Dragon Oil. He previously served Saudi Aramco for over 30 years, the last seven as exploration department manager. Thor Haugnaess, previously with Schlumberger, has been named an independent nonexecutive director Dragon Oil.
Archie Kennedy (pictured) has joined Nexen Petroleum UK as MD, replacing the retiring Phil Oldham. Kennedy was director of management consulting firm Garran Point, and prior to that served in senior roles with ConocoPhillips in the US, Cadada and UK.
Bill Yuile has stepped up from BDM to MD at Aberdeen-based engineering consultancy Apply Altra. He takes over from Agnar Kongshaug, who stood in for ten months while also serving as VP engineering with Norwegian parent group Apply Sørco.
Bruce Burrows has been appointed non-executive chairman of Perth, Western Australia registered E&P company Rialto Energy. Burrows, based in London, succeeds Glenn Whiddon who is now a non-executive director.
Callum Munro (pictured), a senior well engineer with BP, has taken over the chairmanship of the European chapter of the Intervention & Coiled Tubing Association (ICoTA). Fellow committee member Michael Taggart, a Baker Hughes engineering manager, was appointed co-chairman.
Dave Workman (pictured), CEO of Stork Technical Services, has been elected chairman of the UK’s Offshore Contractors Association (OCA). He replaces John Pearson, Amec Natural Resources’ MD for Europe and West Africa, who handed over…
David McKendrick (pictured) has been appointed head of group sales at Aberdeenshire-based deck machinery specialist ACE Winches, tasked with driving its global strategic sales growth. He joins the company from GE Drilling & Production Systems…
Einar Brønlund has taken over the management of Aker Wirth, an Aker Solutions drilling technologies subsidiary based in Erkelenz, Germany. He succeeds Christoph Kleuters, who is leaving the company at his own request.
Fraser Louden (pictured) has been appointed managing director of Reservoir Group’s well intervention and measurements business, based in Aberdeen. The former CEO, BDM and R&D manager of Read Well Services, who latterly served in an advisor role at FMC Technologies…
Geir Eik (pictured) has joined mooring and fluid transfer systems provider Sigma Offshore as VP internal turret systems. Eik, who has 40 years’ oil & gas industry experience, is based at the company’s Singapore office.
Gene Van Dyke, high-profile founder, president and CEO of Vanco Exploration, has resigned to pursue other opportunities. The board has tapped COO Jeff Mitchell as interim CEO until a long-term successor is identified.
Ian MacKenzie (pictured) takes over as CEO of Hardy Oil & Gas next month. A chartered mechanical engineer, he served most recently as an executive director of the KCA Deutag Drilling Group.
Malcolm Webb (pictured), chief executive of pan-industry trade association Oil & Gas UK, has accepted the role of chairman for next year’s SPE Offshore Europe conference in Aberdeen. Webb, who became the organisation’s CEO in 2004 when it was known as UKOOA…
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