PEOPLE

Andrew Way will lead as CEO and president of Exterran Holding’s upcoming international and fabrication services spin-off company to be launched in third-quarter 2015.

Rockwater Energy Solutions Inc. has promoted Holli Ladhani to president and CEO as well as to board member of the board of directors.

Energistics appointed Ross Philo as its new president and CEO.

AFGlobal Corp. has promoted Curtis Samford to president and CEO, succeeding Gean Stalcup. Stalcup has been named chairman of the board for AFGlobal.

Ceona has appointed Mark Preece as CEO.

Effective Oct. 1, Alex Schneiter is the new president and CEO of Lundin Petroleum AB, following the decision of Ashley Heppenstall to step down.

DNV GL Group has appointed Tor Svensen as group executive vice president. Knut Ørbeck-Nilssen will succeed Svensen as CEO of its maritime business area.

The International Well Control Forum selected David Conroy as its first CTO.

President and CEO Steven L. Bietz retired on July 17 from MDU Resources Group’s pipeline and energy services business.

Strategic Marine has appointed Rob Osborn as general manager for fabrication and engineering.

Cimarex CFO Paul Korus plans to retire on or before Sept. 1, and the company has appointed Mark Burford as the new CFO, effective as of Korus’ retirement.

Peter Jenkins has been selected as the new CEO of 4Subsea.

BHP Billiton has selected Dean Dalla Valle as the new COO.

Rodney J. Eichler, Apache Corp.’s executive vice president and executive adviser to the CEO, retired at the
end of June.

RigNet Inc. promoted Keith Stewart to vice president of global operations of RigNet TSI.

The Society of Petroleum Engineers has selected Janeen Judah as the 2017 president of the international professional society.

Xodus Group has promoted Andrew Sewell to the role of global subsurface lead.

Hatch has appointed John Russell Baird P.C. as global strategic adviser.

Trelleborg Sealing Solutions has promoted David Brown to global lead group director of oil and gas.

Umberto Vergine has been appointed chief midstream gas and power officer at Eni, and a new position of chief retail market gas and power officer has been assigned to Marco Alverà.

Petroplan has named Lindsay Sher the new regional recruitment manager for Sub-Saharan Africa.

2H Offshore, an Acteon company, has appointed Prahlad Enuganti as technical manager in its Aberdeen of, Scotland, office.

Ahmed Al-Dadah has been appointed to the role of business development director for engineering and property management at Penspen, and Na’el Barghouthi joins as director of asset integrity for the Middle East and Asia-Pacific regions. Michael Simm has been newly appointed to the role of regional director for Penspen’s Middle East business.

Allen “Al” Ferguson has been selected as Clariant’s oil services manager for Canada.

Henrik Lundin will join the board of directors of TAG Oil Ltd.

Øystein Løseth was elected as new chair and Roy Franklin was selected as a new member and deputy chair of Statoil’s board of directors.

National Fuel Gas Co. has elected Joseph N. Jaggers as a new director for the corporate board of directors.

Goodrich Petroleum Corp. appointed Walter G. “Gil” Goodrich to chairman of the board of directors, replacing Patrick E. Makkoy III, who retired May 11.

Darra Comyn resigned as group finance director of Afren. David Thomas is the new COO and executive director of the board
of directors. David C. L. Frauman will join the board as nonexecutive chairman.

A. Glenn Patterson, one of the original founders of Patterson-UTI Energy Inc., has passed away. He served as president and COO from 1978 to 2006.

Sembcorp Marine has appointed Ong Poh Kwee as COO, Wang Zijian as head of Singapore yard operations, Ho Nee Sin as head of offshore platforms, Wong Lee Lin as head of repairs and upgrades, William Gu as head of rigs and floaters, and Freddie Woo as head of specialized shipbuilding.

Rainer Seele has been selected as OMV CEO and chairman of the executive board.

Sir John Hood has been appointed chairman of BMT Group Ltd. following the retirement of Dr. Neil Cross.

John Hogg assumed the presidency of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

COMPANIES

Santos GLNG’s three major natural gas compression hubs are now operational, marking the end of the first phase of gas field construction. The achievement comes after testing of the third and final hub, near Roma, was completed and handed over to the long-term operations team, according to a press release.

Technical University of Varna
opened a new maritime simulator wing that features a NAUTIS Class B dynamic positioning simulator as well as a NAUTIS Class A full-mission bridge simulator and a new ECDIS Simulator classroom.

J2 Subsea, an Acteon company, has opened a new subsea tooling facility at Seatronics’ subsea electronics location in Houston. The facility includes a workshop for tool preparation, servicing and support.

Tenaris has expanded its service center in Esbjerg, Denmark. In June, the company inaugurated its newly constructed pipe yard, which has a storage capacity of 14,000 tons. The facility offers technical assistance for offshore and onshore oil country tubular goods and operational and administrative support as well as an onsite machine shop.

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