People

Jerre Stead has become CEO of IHS Inc. The company elected Deborah Doyle McWhinney to its board of directors.

Alastair Marsh will replace Richard Sadler as CEO of Lloyd’s Register.

Cartasite added Bill Sinclair to its team as CTO.

The Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association selected Malcolm Roberts as chief executive.

Remi Eriksen has been tapped as group president and CEO of DNV GL Group to succeed Henrik O. Madsen, who is retiring on Aug. 1.

Yokogawa Corp. made Daniel L. Duncan president and CEO of Yokogawa’s North American operations.

Flotek Industries appointed Robert M. Schmitz executive vice president and CFO.

TGS appointed Sven Børre Larsen as its CFO.

Polyflow tapped Jim Moore as CEO.

Frank Jacobs has been appointed to the post of COO for TAG Oil Ltd. The company also selected Toby Pierce as CEO and a director.

Seatronics Ltd., an Acteon company, has promoted Phil Middleton to group managing director.

Apache Corp. appointed Timothy J. Sullivan as senior vice president of operations support, Thomas E. Voytovich as executive vice president of international and offshore region and E&P technology, James L. House as senior region vice president of the Houston region, Grady L. Ables as region vice president of the Canada region and president of Apache Canada, Steven J. Keenan as senior region vice president for the Delaware Basin, and Cory L. Loegering as region vice president for the U.K. region and managing director for Apache North Sea. Apache also appointed Daniel W. Rabun to its board of directors.

Dorsey Morrow has been selected as the executive director for the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.

Statoil tapped Torgrim Reitan to be executive vice president for development and production in the U.S. Hans Jakob Hegge was appointed executive vice president and CFO. Irene Rummelhoff became executive vice president for new energy solutions, and Jens Økland became executive vice president for marketing, midstream and processing.

Inspection Oilfield Services hired John Anderson as Gulf Coast regional manager and Shane Falder as West Texas drill tools manager.

Brandon Hofmeister was chosen as executive director of policy, research and public affairs for Consumers Energy.

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC added Roger L. Nicholson to its energy transactional team.

Tore Guldbrandsøy will head the new Stavanger, Norway, office of Rystad Energy.

Vince Stewart has accepted the position of director of operations for the Channelview, Texas, facility of Patterson Tubular Services, an RPC Inc. company.

Martin Brown will head up Aqualis Offshore’s Aberdeen office as general manager.

SM Energy Co. added Jennifer Martin Samuels to its team as senior director of investor relations.

Penspen appointed Carl Mook as executive vice president of asset management and asset integrity and regional director of the Americas.

The board of BP plc has named Paula Rosput Reynolds and Sir John Sawers as nonexecutive directors.

Stephen L. Norris joined NEAH GES advisory board.

Yang Hua has been appointed chairman of the board of CNOOC Ltd. and chairman of the nomination committee.

Klaus Besier joined the board of directors of Seven Lake Technologies.

Jack N. Aydin became part of the board of directors for Rex Energy Corp.

Exxon Mobil Corp. shareholders have elected Doug Oberhelman to the company’s board of directors.

Companies

iSURVEY Group has launched a new office in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The new facilities include an onsite workshop, storage yard and offices.

The Stier Group unveiled the first offshore training center in Spain at the Taliarte Marina in the Canary Islands. The facility has 3,000 sq m (32,290 sq ft) of training grounds and the capacity to instruct 3,000 people per year in offshore courses and 1,000 students in professional maritime education.

Mokveld Valves BV has opened a new 3,000-sq-m head office in Gouda, Netherlands.

Scott Environmental Services Inc. has expanded its capabilities by creating a custom geophysical testing laboratory designed to perform bench-scale testing on its solid drilling waste management processes. The in-house laboratory was developed for performing streamlined treatability studies that can now be completed within a matter of weeks vs. months. Engineers have access to real-time data, allowing them to make adjustments to the treatability technique used for specific situations during processing.

Applus RTD is opening an office in Corpus Christi, Texas, to provide nondestructive testing services for the region. This is the company’s 22nd office in the U.S.

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