Dirk Warzecha (pictured) will take over from the retiring Ralf to Baben as COO and an executive director of Hamburg-headquartered RWE Dea on 1 January 2013. Warzecha, a petroleum engineer, is currently GM of RWE Dea Egypt in Cairo.
Glynn Rhinehart (pictured) has been named president of Fugro Chance, replacing Phil Stutes who has been promoted to Americas regional director of Fugro’s survey division. Dr Guy Oliver (pictured) has been named president of Fugro Robertson in Houston…
Irwan Halik heads Peak Well Systems’ newly opened Southeast Asia regional office in Kuala Lumpur as technical sales manager. Halik, a petroleum engineer, was with ExxonMobil E&P Malaysia for five years, latterly as a subsurface engineer specialising in well interventions.
Jeffrey Soine is CEO and president of Houston-based Renaissance Offshore, recently started up with a $300 million equity commitment from Quantum Energy Partners to acquire and redevelop legacy oil producing properties in the shallow water Gulf of Mexico…
Jerry Baker (pictured), chief engineer at Atkins, received Subsea UK’s outstanding contribution award in Aberdeen last month. In a career spanning over 40 years, he has championed development and promotion of subsea integrity, authoring…
Joe Burkhardt will receive an OTC distinguished achievement award in Houston next month for leading the concept and system engineering of Exxon USA’s Subsea Production System (SPS), a groundbreaking shallow-water pilot program that was itself…
José Miranda Formigli Filho (pictured) is the new head of E&P at Petrobras, replacing Guilherme de Oliveira Estrella. Formigli, a civil engineer, has served the Brazilian state oil company in E&P roles for 29 years, latterly as Pre-salt E&P executive manager…
Joseph Devoltz (pictured) has joined Environmental Drilling Solutions in Lafayette, Louisiana, as HSE/QA manager. He was previously with MI-Swaco.
Albert Skiba has been appointed Gulf of Mexico VP for safety training and skills body OPITO International. Back at Aberdeen headquarters, Larraine Boorman (pictured) has taken over the OPITO reins from David Binnie.
Malcolm Brinded (pictured), a 37-year veteran of the Royal Dutch Shell group, is stepping down as an executive director with effect from 1 April. Andrew Brown, currently EVP Qatar, will take over Brinded’s responsibilities for Shell’s upstream…
Stephane Constant (pictured) has taken up the newly created, full-time post of CTO to lead the Xodus Group’s integration of surface and subsurface services. Constant worked as a reservoir engineer for Elf and Agip in the UK and Premier Oil…
Stephen Colville has been named as president of the International Association of Drilling Contractors following the retirement of Dr Lee Hunt.
Steve Preston (pictured) and John Smith join the Offshore Installation Group (OIG) this month as CEO and executive vice chairman, respectively. Preston joins OIG from Heerema Marine Contractors where he served as EVP, commercial & technology…
FMC Technologies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire control and automation system solutions provider Control Systems International (CSI). Founded in 1968, CSI is headquartered in Lenexa, Kansas, and has operations in Irvine, California…
Captain Adarash Kumar (pictured) has been appointed group COO of Ezra Holdings, tasked with spearheading its expanding global operations. His successor as CEO of Emas Marine, the group’s offshore support services arm, is Robin Kirkpatrick (pictured), previously the division’s COO.