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Hoover Container Solutions has promoted Gabriela Blanco to international client services manager. Rod Branch joined the company as vice president of human resources.

Jeff Foster will lead Microseismic Inc. as president and CEO.

Bristow Group Inc. has selected John Briscoe as senior vice president and CFO.

Gustavo Hernández García was chosen as CEO of Pemex E&P.

Ericson Manufacturing has appointed Jeffrey D. Schad as president.

Tullow Oil Plc has named Dr. Michael Daly as nonexecutive director.

Scott Rempel has been tapped as vice president of business development and strategy for Wood Group Mustang.

Rajib Roy has taken on the role of CEO for Quantum Spatial.

Mitch Thibodeaux has been made president of Superior Performance Inc.

Honeywell named Vimal Kapur president of Honeywell Process Solutions.

Kevin Clark has been given the title of CFO of Max Petroleum Plc.

Aggreko appointed Chris Weston CEO.

Greene’s Energy Group LLC has promoted Ricardo “BJ” Rivera to district manager for Testco Production BOP Testing and Guardian Wellhead Protection and Rentals.

Peak Well Systems has expanded its global sales management team with the appointment of Graeme Copland as regional sales manager for the company’s Western Hemisphere region covering the North Sea, Continental Europe, CIS and SubSaharan Africa.

Shawn Maxwell has become president and CTO of IMaGE, Itasca Microseismic and Geomechanical Evaluation products and services.

Apache Corp. has promoted Tom Yelich to staff vice president of business development and Tim Custer to staff vice president of land. Annell R. Bay has joined the company’s board of directors.

Earl Collins has assumed the position of president of Willbros Group Inc. Michael Fournier has been named executive vice president and COO of the company, and Edward Wiegele has been named executive vice president of Willbros Group and president of engineering and technology.

Charles Packshaw has joined the board of directors as a nonexecutive director for BMT Group Ltd.

Fastnet Oil and Gas Plc has tapped Will Holland to be CFO.

Eco-Stim Energy Solutions Argentina S.A. has expanded its team with the appointment of Oscar Boch as logistics and maintenance manager, Martin Pons as engineering manager, Paula Bertoglio as special projects manager, Hector Sanchez as operations manager and Eduardo Dimarco as coiled tubing operations supervisor.

Reed Smith has added Michael Yuffee and Gary C. Johnson as partners in its Energy & Natural Resources Industry Group.

Swift Worldwide Resources has appointed Rodney F. Nelson as a nonexecutive board member.

Wellsite Rental Services named Blair Faucheaux controller.

Jerry Beeson has taken on the role of vice president of sales for Circulation Solutions.

Paul Remson has become vice president of risk management for Superior Energy Services.

InterMoor, an Acteon company, has appointed Nick Knight as business development manager for InterMoor Marine Services Ltd.

AMEC has made Jeff Reilly group president of strategy and business development.

Chestnut Exploration and Production Inc. has hired Victor Jordan as its new senior production engineer.

Companies

Peak Well Systems has opened a new technology center in Dubai, UAE, accommodating regional technical sales and engineering teams and a large assembly and testing workshop facility for after-sales support. Peak also will maintain a large inventory of rental tools in Dubai for rapid mobilization of advanced well intervention equipment throughout the region.

Master Rig International has consolidated its worldwide oilfield parts and service operations into one new facility headquartered in Houston. The new 8,361-sq-m (90,000-sq-ft) API/ISO facilities built on 11 acres include administrative offices, worldwide service dispatch, 20 independent service and pump unitization bays with more than 100 tons of lifting capacity, eight dedicated fabrication bays, four independent indoor blast and coating booths, warehousing, and $10 million in parts and equipment. Each production area is equipped with tools and technology to repair and refurbish drilling contractors’ major equipment such as mud pumps, drawworks, rotary tables and traveling equipment.

Pipeline Plastics LLC is expanding its high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipe operations with a new manufacturing facility in West Texas. The 3,716-sq-m (40,000-sq-ft) facility will be constructed on a 15-acre site in the Levelland, Texas, Rail Park. Production of HDPE pipe from the facility is expected by year-end 2014.

Aqualis Offshore opened an office in Shanghai, one of 12 offices in nine countries the company has established since beginning operations a year ago. The Shanghai office’s main fields of activity will be construction supervision, marine warranty, jackup trials and commissioning, and transportation and rig moving, and it also will offer engineering design services with support from the company’s other offices.

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