People

CONSOL tapped Nicholas J. DeIuliis to be its next president. CEO. J. Brett Harvey, the former CEO, will become executive chairman.

T.K. Das became president of FloaTEC.

Kenneth Hopkins has taken on the role of COO for Max Petroleum.

Ken Aitken became CEO for Empire Oil & Gas.

ARKeX has chosen Jim White to be the company’s president.

FMC Technologies selected Maryann T. Seaman as executive vice president.

Graham Dowland will serve as Aurora Oil & Gas Ltd.’s CFO.

William Picquet retired from Ultra Petroleum Corp., and Brad Johnson was promoted to senior vice president of operations.

Sam Hanton was promoted to director of the survey division, and Alan Buchan was promoted to director of survey projects for Nautronix.

Knight Oil Tools named Chris Rosson senior vice president of global resources.

Harkand appointed Mike Brown general manager of diving services in North America.

Phil Adderley became technical and quality director for Fine Tubes.

BP named David Campbell as the head of its Russian business and Dr. Angela Strank as chief scientist.

Sembcorp Marine Ltd. appointed Mohd Hassan Marican, a former president and CEO of Petronas, as chairman.

David Bolton joined Energen Corp. as vice president for land.

Paradigm named Dave Rhodes executive vice president of sales, services and marketing.

Stabil Drill, a subsidiary of Superior Energy Services, made A. Mauricio Alvarez Latin America sales manager.

Jack Harper took on the position of executive vice president for Concho Resources. The company also appointed John Surma to the board of directors.

dGB Earth Sciences appointed Gary Smith vice president of sales and marketing.

Wellsite Rental Services LLC made Rex Ferrier vice president for Texas operations.

Simon Goldsworthy became business development manager for NCS Survey, an Acteon company.

Wood Group Mustang promoted Tim Griffin to vice president of industrial operations for the company’s North American industrial division. Troy Reynolds was promoted to general manager of process plants for Deer Park, Texas.

Dr. William A. Schneider Sr., chairman of FairfieldNodal, is retiring after more than 33 years of service. Walter Pharris has been named the new chairman.

Apollo tapped Jonathan White as business development director.

Rob Gaines joined iSiS-Ex as business development manager.

Hari Vamadevan has been appointed as DNV GL’s regional manager for U.K. and Southern Africa.

John Stumpf was named senior vice president of business development and midstream for WBI Energy Inc.

Aminex added Bernard Andre as Tanzanian exploration advisor.

Howard J. Thill retired as vice president of corporate, government and investor relations of Marathon Oil Corp. after 12 years of service. Paul Weeditz assumed the role of director of corporate communications for the company.

Oil and Natural Gas Corp. (ONGC) made Dr. Anil Bhandari director of exploration of ONGC Videsh Ltd., the company’s overseas upstream unit.

Saudi Aramco named Abdallah Al Saadan senior vice president of finance, strategy and development.

James H. Browning joined the board of directors of Endeavour International Corp.

Companies

GE broke ground on its new Oil & Gas Manufacturing Facility located in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. The first phase of the new facility will be the construction of a 9,500-sq-m (102,250-sq-ft) building scheduled for completion by December 2014. The focus will be on expanding the manufacturing capability and operations of the nearby pressure control facility, accelerating deliveries on equipment such as wellheads and valves.

PD&MS Energy and Harlen have committed $4.2 million to a new offshore engineering facility in a Scotland port. The 3,600-sq-m (38,750-sq-ft) facility on Princess Alexandra Wharf at Port of Dundee is optimized for rig repair and upgrades, vessel repair and mobilizations, large fabrications, and general work across other energy sectors.

Applus+ Laboratories is opening a new facility in Bryne, Norway, to provide mechanical, metallurgy and corrosion testing services to the industry. The facility has been granted NS-EN ISO 17025 accreditation and is located in the heart of Stavanger’s oil and gas hub.

Tri Tool Inc. will open a new 1,400-sq-m (15,000-sq-ft) office and warehouse location in Houston to serve the Gulf region. The company will house, rent and service its pipeline equipment and mobilize service personnel from the location. The facility also will be the base for the company’s CNC Counterbore Service with newly developed machining technology.