Dan Prairie has been appointed senior sales engineer for seismic monitoring services at Spectraseis, based in Houston.
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.
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.
Martin Walder has rejoined Rockwell Automation to lead its industry-focused teams in the oil & gas, process and energy sectors. He left Rockwell in 2001 and in the interim served as MD of ABB Robotics for seven years and worked for a while in the private equity market.
Matt McCarroll’s appointment as CEO of ATP Oil & Gas in succession to T Paul Bulmahn lasted barely a week. McCarroll resigned on 7 June, with the company declaring that it was unable to conclude a mutually agreeable employment deal with him…
Philip Luna is the new CEO of Universal/Pegasus International. Interim CEO Bob Deason will remain as executive chairman. Luna, who began his career with ExxonMobil, joined UPI from Jacobs Engineering where he held various positions, including VP business development…
Roderick Larson has joined Oceaneering International as SVP and COO. With Baker Hughes for over 20 years, he served as BHI’s VP operations, Gulf of Mexico, before taking over as its Latin America region president in January 2011. Another Oceaneering newcomer is Mark Peterson…
Steve Cossé has stepped up from EVP to president and CEO of Murphy Oil following the retirement of David Wood. Roger Jenkins, Murphy’s EVP for exploration & production since 2009 and a key figure in its development of the deepwater Kikeh field offshore Malaysia…
Former Saipem COO Yves Inbona joined Petrofac on 10 June as MD of its Offshore Capital Projects (OCP) business, a newly created unit within the group’s Engineering, Construction, Operations & Maintenance (ECOM) division.
Apax Partners in conjunction with JMI Equity have agreed to acquire oil & gas focused software vendor Paradigm for around $1 billion in an all-cash transaction. Simmons & Co International advised Apax.
Having consolidated all its coring activities under the one brand and under the stewardship of Doug Kinsella, the Reservoir Group is now billing Corpro as the world’s largest coring provider. Corpro was in the group’s original line-up when it was created five years ago…
IHS has opened a new 25,000ft2 facility in Houston dedicated to the secure transformation of hard copy E&P records – well files, paper logs, maps, seismic sections, legal documents and the like – into proprietary, globally available, unlimited access…
Liquid Robotics and Schlumberger have created Liquid Robotics Oil & Gas, a 50:50 joint venture tasked with developing services for the oil & gas industry using Liquid Robotics’ wave-powered, autonomous marine vehicles, which can operate offshore for up to a year without crew…
Penspen plans to open an office in Mexico City, its third base in Mexico after Ciudad de Carmen and Comalcalco. Headed up by Mauricio Moreno Ramirez, the new office will focus on pipeline maintenance, performance improvement of existing oil & gas infrastructure, and training.
Weatherford International has completed the acquisition of completion tools specialist Petrowell. The two companies have been aligned in a global partnership to develop and commercialize ‘game-changing technologies’ since 2008.
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