PEOPLE
Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd. expects to appoint John Godbold as COO and project director of Bear Head LNG Corp. when the acquisition is finalized. Ian Salmon is expected to be made CFO and chief commercial officer.
Schramm Inc. named Bobby Bryan COO.
Halliburton tapped Jeff Miller as president and appointed him to the board of directors.
John Gerstenlauer has taken on the role of CEO for Gulf Keystone Petroleum.
The Society of Petroleum Engineers named Baker Hughes’ D. Nathan Meehan 2016 president of the society.
Aaron Gaydosik has been tapped to be CFO of Gulfport Energy.
Jerry Beeson became CEO of Circulation Solutions LLC.
BP has named Spencer Dale its group chief economist.
The Petroleum Exploration & Production Association of New Zealand selected Cameron Madgwick to become CEO.
Carolyn Kotsol became the president and CEO of Winner Water Services, a joint venture formed in early 2013 by Battelle and Winner.
Lloyd’s Register selected John Rowley to be managing director for the Management Systems business LRQA. Paul Graaf was made COO for LRQA, and Steve Allison became the business’ finance director.
Industry Technology Facilitator appointed John Wishart as chairman.
Martin Jolley has been made vice president of sales and commercial for Claxton Engineering Services, an Acteon company.
Occidental Petroleum Corp. named Todd Stevens CEO and Marshall D. Smith senior executive vice president and CFO, both for its subsidiary California Resources Corp.
Chris Lambert has been selected as regional vice president for Gulf of Mexico, Brian Keefover became regional vice president for North America land and Ricky Begnaud is now regional vice president for Middle East/North Africa/Central Asia for RigNet Inc.
Ultra Petroleum Corp. promoted Garland R. Shaw to senior vice president and CFO.
Azman Nasir has taken on the position of head of the Asia-Pacific region for Energy Industries Council.
Sigma Cubed Inc. has chosen Dr. Alan J. Cohen as CTO and Mark Bozich as Houston engineering manager.
Julian Walker assumed the role of director of communications for AMEC.
Hampco chose Steve Hanna to become technical manager.
Royal Dutch Shell Plc selected Harry Brekelmans as projects and technology director.
Elaine Hicks now serves as senior vice president and CIO for HOLT CAT.
Aquatic Engineering & Construction Ltd., an Acteon company, has appointed Martin Charles as regional general manager for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Scott Lamoreaux has taken on the role of director for the natural resources oil and gas group of ING Capital LLC.
Petrofac Training Services, part of Petrofac Group, hired Pedro Vergel as vice president of Western Hemisphere.
Matthew Hancock and Amber Rudd were named ministers in the U.K. Department of Energy and Climate Change.
Amir Ghaffari joined Vinson & Elkins as a partner in London representing energy, among other areas.
Amos Hochstein was tapped by the U.S. State Department to be acting head of the Bureau of Energy Resources.
Paul F. Boling has retired from his post as vice president, CFO, secretary and treasurer for Carrizo Oil & Gas Inc. David L. Pitts, the company’s vice president and chief accounting officer, will become CFO and treasurer in addition to his current positions.
Thomas J. Moore joined Mayer Brown’s Houston office as a partner in the Corporate & Securities and Oil & Gas practices.
COMPANIES
Variable Bore Rams Inc. has opened a new distribution center in Midland, Texas, to improve response time in New Mexico, Oklahoma and West Texas by up to seven hours and facilitate inventory rotation into and out of the company’s headquarters. Available inventory will include about 100 sets of various dressed rams and 200 sets of spare elastomers.
DNV GL is expanding its existing facilities in Katy, Texas, to accommodate all Houston-area staff in one location. The maximum capacity of the expanded facility will increase to 700 people from 350. The expansion will add 4,413 sq m (47,500 sq ft) of office space to the existing 8,338 sq m (89,750 sq ft). The construction project is scheduled to be completed by June 2015.
MECO Inc. opened a new 7,432-sq-m (80,000-sq-ft) manufacturing headquarters in Mandeville, La. The facility features recycling of process water that reduces the demand for makeup water and eliminates process water disposal as well as state-of-the-art heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems in production areas to improve product quality and workforce productivity.
CGG inaugurated its subsurface imaging center in Yangon, Myanmar, to support anticipated growth in Myanmar’s oil and gas exploration sector. The center is equipped with the latest hardware and CGG’s seismic processing software to meet the subsurface imaging requirements of CGG’s clients operating in the country. A fast dedicated network link to CGG’s Singapore hub also is available for processing large data volumes.
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