Pat Haggerty has joined Modus Seabed Intervention as head of projects, a newly created post. He was with Subsea 7 for seven years, latterly as Aberdeen-based GM of Europe & West Africa ROV operations in its iTech division, and prior…
Phil Keating has been appointed energy sector BDM for pneumatic motion and fluid control technology provider Norgren.
R Michael Haney has joined Douglas-Westwood to head up its new office in Houston’s central business district. He was previously with Accenture, Arthur D Little and Booz Allen Hamilton.
Rahul Dhir stepped down as MD and CEO of Cairn India, reportedly to pursue other business opportunities.
Richard Jenkins has joined Claxton Engineering as VP operations. Previously with Hamworthy, Baker Hughes and Seaweld Engineering, he served most recently as Amec’s operations director for West Africa.
Shyamal Bhattacharya has taken over as operations director at Indian state oil company subsidiary ONGC Videsh. An acknowledged authority on IOR, he once headed the Institute of Reservoir Studies in Ahmedabad.
Tom Trigg has been appointed global technical advisor for drilling waste management specialist TWMA, based at the company’s Houston office. He recently retired from ExxonMobil.
Recruiting and retaining skills remains one of the industrys biggest talking points. In this OE two-parter examining the issue from differing offshore sector perspectives, operator BP's Simon Drysdale discusses the need for continual nurturing of existing talent…
Boyd Ross has been appointed sales director of the new Alderley Metering Solutions division (see ‘Firms’) and will be based mainly in Alderley’s Aberdeen facility.
Robert Potter has been appointed president of FMC Technologies. Previously EVP energy systems, he takes over this role from John Gremp, who remains chairman and CEO. FMC also has appointed Douglas Pferdehirt as EVP and COO, assuming responsibility…
Mike Chapman, founder of Duvall, Washington based Mecco, has been appointed a US sales agent by underwater acoustic positioning systems provider Sonardyne.
Elijio Serrano has been appointed SVP and CFO of Tetra Technologies. He joins the company from UniversalPegasus International and previously served in senior management posts with Paradigm and Schlumberger.
Allen Leatt, Subsea 7’s SVP engineering, was recently elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in recognition of his 30-year contribution to the development of subsea construction techniques, underwater robotics and offshore construction vessels.
Chartered engineer Brendan Ryan has been named as COO of independent offshore survey company Utec, based in its Houston office.
Professor Jesus Talamantes-Silva heads up RD26 Ltd, a new company set up within Sheffield Forgemasters to service its internal engineering research and development work as well as taking on external contracts.