PEOPLE

Industry veteran David Pridden, 66, passed away in November 2017. Over the years he worked for BP, Kongsberg Subsea Developments, Mentor Engineering Consultants, UMITEK and Renews Ltd. In 2004 he became the inaugural CEO of Subsea UK.

Carlos Trevino was appointed director- general of PEMEX by Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto.

Decom North Sea selected Dr. Tom Leeson as interim CEO.

Roan Resources LLC named Tony Maranto president, CEO and a member of the company’s board of directors.

Cenovus Energy Inc. selected Alex Pourbaix as president, CEO and a member of the board of directors.

QTerminal’s board of directors appointed Neville Bissett CEO.

After the recent acquisition of Rockwater Energy Solutions Inc. by Select Energy Services Inc., Holli Ladhani, the former chairman, CEO and president of Rockwater, is now the CEO and president of the combined company, and John Schmitz, previously the chairman and CEO of Select, is now the fulltime executive chairman.

Range Resources Corp.’s CFO Roger S. Manny plans to retire on May 16 after the company’s 2018 annual stockholder meeting.

Marie-Noëlle Semeria has been appointed senior vice president, group CTO at Total.

Unit Corp. named Les Austin senior vice president and CFO.

Aquaterra Energy appointed Nick Hawkes financial director.

Woodbridge International welcomed Greg Michaels as vice president of business development.

Quorum has hired or promoted four new executives to its leadership team: Kip Amedeo as vicepresident of sales and business development, M. Sean FitzGerald as vice president of engineering, Charles Jeffery as a vice president of the WellEz Division at Quorum and Dan Wallin as vice president of products.

Upstream Exploration LLC selected Chris Lipari as land manager.

Sulzer appointed Janice Fillinger sales manager for high-voltage coils covering the U.S. market.

Bravo Target Safety selected Michael Coutu as regional manager and announced that it will soon open a new facility in Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada.

Asset Guardian Solutions Ltd. named Blaire McLeod technical consultant.

MPLX LP appointed C. Kristopher Hagedorn vice president and controller of the general partner of MPLX.

Ocean Signal named Kris Nieuwenhuis global commercial sales manager.

Tim Helsdon joined the International Marine Contractors Association team as a technical adviser of diving.

Marathon Petroleum Corp. announced the retirement of Rodney P. Nichols, executive vice president of human resources, health and administrative services.

Newpark Resources Inc. named John C. Mingé a new member to its board of directors.

EQT Corp.’s board of directors selected Thomas F. Karam and Norman J. Szydlowski as new directors on the board, expanding EQT’s board size to 15 directors.

EXCO Resources Inc. announced the resignation of C. John Wilder from the company’s board of directors and as executive chairman of the board.

Fiona Bennett retired as a director of Beach Energy Ltd.’s board of directors.

KrisEnergy Ltd.’s board of directors appointed CEO Kelvin Tang executive director and CFO and Kiran Raj alternate executive director.

Eco (Atlantic) Oil & Gas Ltd. appointed Keith Hill a nonexecutive director of the company.

Peter Stern resigned as a director of Entek Energy Ltd. due to the pressures of other work commitments.

Tap Oil Ltd. has removed Messrs James Menzies, Peter Mansell and Tom Soulsby as directors of the company and has appointed Chris Newton and Govert van Ek as directors of the company.

COMPANIES

Milestone Environmental Services has opened a new oilfield waste disposal facility south of Midland, Texas.

Halliburton worked with the Akwa Ibom State Government to inaugurate and open Nigeria’s first oil and gas training center fully equipped with oilfield operations tools. The Akwa Ibom Oil and Gas Training and Research Center will provide courses in field development, drilling and completions engineering, well intervention solutions, and digital technologies to local energy employees and students. Halliburton Landmark will provide the training curriculum, instructors, software, workstations and tools to be used in the classroom. The Akwa Ibom State Government provided the facility infrastructure.

Texas Engineering Executive Education, a division of the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, will serve as the new home for the Petroleum Extension program, a workforce education and training organization for the oil and gas industry.

EQT Corp. completed its acquisition of Rice Energy Inc. in November.

EagleRidge Energy completed its purchase of Trinity River Energy LLC’s Barnett Shale assets in June. EagleRidge will operate the assets, establishing itself as one of the top producers in the Barnett Shale.

C&J Energy Services Inc. acquired O-Tex Holdings Inc., a provider of oilfield cementing services.

Acteon has enhanced its mooring capabilities by completing the purchase of the Viking Seatech Group in December.

Comments