PEOPLE:

Kevin Gallagher has been selected as Santos’ managing director and CEO effective Feb. 1.

The International Association of Drilling Contractors announced the resignation of Stephen A. Colville as president and CEO and the appointment of Jason E. McFarland as interim president effective Nov. 30, 2015.

Lorenzo Donadeo, co-founder and CEO at Vermilion Energy Inc., will retire as CEO March 1, at which time he will transition to his new role as chair of the board of directors. Larry Macdonald, the company’s current chair, will transition to lead director. Anthony Marino, the current president and COO, will assume the role of president and CEO upon Donadeo’s retirement.

Hannon Westwood appointed Richard McGrath as CEO Nov. 24, 2015.

Warren Resources named Frank T. Smith, Jr. senior vice president and CFO and appointed James A. Watt, president and CEO, to the board of directors.

Andy Hill, Oniqua Intelligent MRO’s co-founder and CEO, retired Dec. 4, 2015, after 25 years of service. Steve Herrmann, executive vice president of marketing and alliances, will serve as interim CEO.

Occidental Petroleum Corp.’s board of directors has promoted Vicki A. Hollub to president and COO and appointed her to the board. Hollub will succeed Stephen I. Chazen as CEO, effective at the company’s 2016 annual shareholder meeting.

WellDog hired Trenton Thornock as WellDog’s Group CFO.

Karl Chalabala joins SunTrust Robinson Humphrey as a director to cover the E&P space out of Houston.

Danos added to its leadership team by promoting James Callahan to vice president of finance, Mark Danos to vice president of project services, Stacey Gisclair to vice president of human resources and Reed Peré to vice president of production services.

Wood Group appointed three senior engineering specialists who will lead a new team of up to 20 people in the U.K. Mark Hutchinson will become operations manager of Wood Group’s U.K. vibration team, Jonathon Baker joins as sales and business development manager, and Rob Swindell will take on the role of R&D and technical authority.

Dr. Alan J. Cohen joins Headwave as strategic adviser.

Marathon Oil Corp.’s Michael J. Stover, currently vice president of operations services, retired Nov. 30, 2015, following nearly 30 years of service.

Emco Wheaton appointed Lee Webb production manager at its Margate plant in Kent, U.K.

The executive board of MAN Diesel & Turbo appointed Per Rud head of PrimeServ Diesel.

Fernando Hernandez has been selected as U.S. sales manager at SECC Oil & Gas.

Energy Software Intelligence Analytics Group named Malcolm Ricketts research director.

TAM International announced strategic changes in its U.S., Latin American and global leadership roles. Tim Davis has been appointed global technical director for TAM. Marty Coronado joined TAM in November 2015 as engineering director. TAM appointed Art Loginov as director of Latin America for Western Hemisphere operations. Mike Beleau has accepted the role of business development director for TAM U.S.

Fike Corp. selected David Kemp as executive director of sales for the Americas.

Henrik Brünniche Lund has been appointed investor relations director at DONG Energy.

The board of the Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association announced the reelection of Bruce Lake as chairman and Richard Owen as vice chairman.

Decom North Sea appointed Alistair Hope, Alan Edwards, Sebastiaan Pauwels, Robert McCaig and Gerard Lubbinge new board directors, while Pamela Ogilvie, Tom Leeson, Murdo MacIver, Roy Aspden and David Dent have been reelected as directors to the board.

Junex Inc.’s board of directors endorsed the appointment of André Gaumond as a director of the company.

The Severneftegazprom board of directors named Vladimir Dmitruk the company’s director general Nov. 23, 2015.

Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. elected Dorothy M. Ables and Robert S. Boswell to its board of directors Dec. 2, 2015.

Drillinginfo appointed Dr. Phiroz (Daru) Darukhanavala to its board of directors.

COMPANIES

Unique Group will expand its operations into the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with the opening of two new facilities in Riyadh and Dammam.

Well Control School (WCS) relocated its training center in Lafayette, La., to 425 Settlers Trace Blvd. WCS was scheduled to hold its first classes in the new larger center Nov. 30, 2015. The training center also includes state-of-the-art simulators and computer stations for its System 21 e-Learning programs.

Wood Group has expanded into Slovakia, opening an office in Bratislava that the Automated Technology Group, a Wood Group Mustang company, will use to support automation projects in Slovakia and the surrounding region.

BHR Group launched a commercially available open-access downhole test facility in December 2015, based in Cranfield, U.K. The onshore facility is the first of its kind in the U.K., providing an easily accessible secure flexible onshore environment that accurately reproduces downhole conditions.

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