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.
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.
Joe Miller (pictured) has been promoted to VP and GM of Greene’s Energy Group subsidiary Devin International. Based in Lafayette, Miller will oversee company management as well as sales efforts.
Lars Christian Bacher (pictured) has been appointed Statoil’s EVP development and production international and will take up the post on 1 September. He will succeed Peter Mellbye who is retiring after 30 years with the company. Bacher…
Lars Sørum becomes the new president of Norway’s Sintef Petroleum Research on 1 May. He is currently a research director at Sintef Energy Research.
Mike Dushinske (pictured) has joined the Houston sales staff of Cuming and will focus his efforts on the corporation’s C-Float and C-Therm syntactic foam deepsea buoyancy and thermal insulation product lines.
Torsten Marten (pictured) has taken up the new post of Brazil operations manager at NCS Survey, based in Rio. He joins NCS from Subsea 7, where he was a project surveyor on the Petrobras PRA-1 deepwater tie-in project.
Yasser Mufti (pictured) has been named Saudi Arabia governor for the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. He replaces Majid al-Moneef, a candidate to succeed Abdalla Salem el-Badri as Opec secretary general later this year.
Larry Burleson has been appointed director of business development for corporate services at Cudd Energy Services, tasked with building a global clientele for the company's integrated solutions. A 36-year petroleum industry veteran, he joins from Cudd Weir Seaboard, where he was VP sales.
Subsea has moved from being the outlier to being ‘one of the core ways of us doing our business’, Chevron’s Peter Blake told the recent Subsea 2012 conference in Aberdeen. He expects the company’s net operated subsea production, currently in the region of 600…
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