Richard Degner, president and CEO of Global Geophysical Services, was named Ernst & Young’s 2012 entrepreneur of the year in the Gulf Coast oilfield technology category. He was acknowledged for turning his vision of building a new geophysical company into a reality from the ground up…
Steve Moir has been named as North Sea technical sales manager for downhole tool provider Peak Well Systems, based at its Aberdeen office. He joins from Expro and prior to that served with Halliburton.
Steve Watson is heading up EnerMech’s first office in India (see ‘Firms’) and will also serve as Mumbai-based country manager. He previously worked for Halliburton and managed pipeline and process projects in India for ONGC, Cairn Energy, Aker and Helix Energy Solutions.
Stuart Bell has been appointed MD of the newly established UAE office of hazardous area electrical equipment supplier Dron & Dickson.
Terrence Singam has been named sales director East Asia for UK-based metering, processing, treatment and control solutions provider Alderley, based in Singapore. He previously worked for FMC, Tyco and Emerson.
Zalmay Khalilzad, a former US ambassador to Afghanistan and Iraq, has been appointed to the board of Tethys Petroleum. Tethys has interests in Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Following a management team restructuring, equipment rental specialist Ashstead Technology has named former group CEO Graham Philip as group deputy chairman primarily responsible for the instruments division. Former group CFO Allan Pirie (pictured) and offshore division MD Mark Derry become…
Bill Fletcher has been appointed AGR’s well management VP for the UK and West Africa in succession to Ian Burdis, who is now EVP for UK, West Africa and Asia Pacific. Previously with Senergy as operations manager for four years, he has…
Bret Shanahan has been named president of the Roxar business unit of Emerson Process Management. He was previously MD of Emerson’s Roxar instrumentation division, Roxar Flow Measurement.
Chris Rosson has been promoted to global business manager of Knight Oil Tools. He was previously operations manager for the company’s manufacturing business unit. Knight has also promoted Greg Zaunbrecher to assistant global business manager.
Dan Prairie has been appointed senior sales engineer for seismic monitoring services at Spectraseis, based in Houston.
David Merle has joined Aker Solutions as head of its Process Systems business, reporting to executive chairman Øyvind Eriksen. He previously served as head of operations for Cameron’s process systems unit in Houston as well as heading its subsea controls business.
David Rosenwasser has been appointed to the newly created position of EVP and COO at marine transportation services provider GulfMark Offshore. He has directed the company’s Americas region since 2009.
David Walker has been named as CEO of DNV KEMA. He started his career as a geologist with Amoco and served as president of BHP Billiton’s petroleum operations in the North Sea, North Africa, Middle East and Australia before joining DNV in 2007…
Harold Touchet has been named operations manager at Greene’s Energy Group subsidiary Devin International, based in Lafayette. He joins Devin from Weatherford International where he spent 35 years and served most recently as product line manager, wellbore cleanout and under reaming services.