Felipe Carvalho has been named as Castrol Offshore’s sales manager in Brazil. The company also added certified lubrication specialist Sean Komatinsky, a former US Coast Guard officer, to its regional team.
Graeme Coutts (pictured) has been appointed a non-executive director of specialist pipeline isolation group STATS. He retired last year following a 21-year career with Expro, during which he held a number of senior roles including president western hemisphere…
Hugh Williams (pictured) will step down as chief executive of the International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA) at the end of 2012. Subsea 7’s Andy Woolgar, current IMCA president, paid tribute to Williams’ ‘outstanding leadership’ over the past 10 years…
Jim Macklin (pictured) has been named VP projects and engineering at InterMoor, based in Houston. He joins from Helix Energy Solutions Group, where he was director of special projects.
Jørn Berg has joined subsea acoustic communication and positioning systems specialist Nautronix as VP sales for Norway. Berg, who has 25 years’ oil & gas industry experience, will be based at the company’s newly established Stavanger office.
Keith Gordon (pictured) heads up oil & gas consultancy Maxoil Solutions’ new OPS (operations performance strategy) division as consultant. He has more than 40 years’ experience in the sector, having held production operations and asset management posts internationally with BP and…
Dr Kirsi Tikka, (pictured), a VP and currently chief engineer at ABS, is relocating to London to assume the role of president and COO of the ABS Europe Division, which includes the wider Mediterranean region and Africa. She takes over…
Mike Bowyer was presented with Oil & Gas UK’s prestigious 2012 award for services to safety last month in recognition of his many years supporting the North Sea’s Step Change in Safety initiative. As co-chair of its workforce engagement steering group…
Sietze Hepkema, a Dutch qualified lawyer and former partner with Allen & Overy, has joined SBM Offshore as chief governance and compliance officer and will serve on the company’s management board. The appointment follows a recent review of the company’s compliance procedures…
Tekena Dokubo (pictured) has joined GL Noble Denton as country manager, Nigeria, following the opening of the company’s first West African base in Lagos.
Rob Fisher (centre) has joined Senergy Development Solutions (SDS), the fast-evolving engineering and project management group established in Aberdeen last August. Previously with Technip, he joins fellow directors Stuart McAuley (left)…
The well intervention operation undertaken by Total and Wild Well Control has succeeded in stopping a gas leak at Elgin’s G4 well, the French supermajor announced on 16 May 2012. Total’s president of E&P Yves-Louis Darricarrère called the outcome a ‘major turning point…
With the world demanding ever more challenging ‘green’ credentials, the search is on among oil industry suppliers to come up with environmentally safer alternatives to existing products. Jennifer Pallanich talks to Terresolve CEO Mark Miller…
'The scope of [NAM/Shell] well repair and maintenance work will see [Kraken] visit nearly 50 platforms.'Offshore oil & gas and wind power opportunities for England's eastern region were debated at the biggest ever conference staged by EEE…
Jumbo bolsters heavylift fleetJumbo Shipping last month confirmed that it has ordered a second new K-class vessel, with an option on a third, to complement its existing fleet. And following engineering studies, the Rotterdambased specialist…