Gary Rich has joined Parker Drilling as president and CEO. A 30-year veteran of the drilling services sector, Rich spent 25 of those years with Baker Hughes, serving most recently as VP global sales and prior to that as president of the company's European operations.
SVP marketing and business development with Atwood Oceanics, will step down from that post at the end of this year and will retire from the company effective 31 December 2013. Geoff Wagner, currently marketing and business development director…
Gretchen Watkins who recently took over from the retiring Jim Bowzer as Marathon's VP North America production operations.
Hock Goh has been appointed to the board of directors of Australian independent Santos. During a 25-year career with Schlumberger, Goh held senior positions in Asia, the Middle East and Europe, including president of network & infrastructure solutions, president Asia, and VP and GM, China.
Iain Stevenson has joined subsea engineering consultancy DeepSea in the role of Asia Pacific GM, based at the firm's Kuala Lumpur office. He was previously VP subsea business line at UniversalPegasus.
Jan Houtved Hansen has been appointed GM marine boilers at maritime and offshore engineering company Harris Pye, based at the group's Danish office.
John Stobart has been named EVP and COO at Transocean. He has been worldwide drilling manager for BHP Billiton Petroleum since 1994, serving in Australia, the UK and latterly Houston. Transocean has also appointed Ihab Toma as its EVP, chief of staff.
Kevin Short has become sales director of interactive learning solutions provider Atlas.
Kim Hedegaard Sørensen is the new MD at Danish transport and logistics company Blue Water Shipping following founder Kurt Skov's decision to step down after 40 years at the helm. Sørensen was most recently CEO of TransAtlantic Industrial Shipping…
Michael Chia and Wong Kok Seng have been appointed MD (marine) and MD (offshore), respectively, at Keppel Oil & Marine. Chia, who will oversee a division which includes Keppel Shipyard, Keppel Singmarine and other marinerelated overseas yards…
Mike Main has joined Viking SeaTech as UK and Africa MD. He served most recently as MD for UK operations at BIS Salamis, having earlier held director-level posts with Petrofac, Kvaerner Oil & Gas and PGS Atlantic.
Mitch Little has stepped up from Norway business manager to VP international production operations at Marathon Oil.
Nick Hull has been promoted to COO at metering specialist Alderley. Brian Johnstone has joined Alderley Systems in Aberdeen as regional sales director, produced water treatment.
Nicki Bourne has joined SLR as a principal in its Maidstone, UK office. Bourne has 10 years' consultancy experience supporting upstream oil & gas sector clients, among them BG, BP, ConocoPhillips, ChevronTexaco and Total.
Remi Volpe has been named VP-GM for Honeywell Sensing & Control's Europe, Middle East and Africa region, based in Rolle, Switzerland.