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Vol. 233 No. 3
Guy M. Oliver has been named president of Fugro Robertson Inc. Based in Houston, Oliver’s responsibilities include overall management of company performance, technical marketing support of sales and business development, and the implementation of quality, health, safety and environment (QHSE) policies. Oliver began his career with Fugro Robertson (formerly Robertson Research International Ltd.) in 1997 as a sedimentologist, and has served as a director of the company since 2004.
ITS Energy Services appointed Joe Chandler as COO. He was also named a member of the board of directors. Chandler joined ITS in January 2003, previously serving as VP for North and South America.
KBR appointed Darrell Hargrave to president of KBR’s Industrial Services business unit. A 30-year veteran of KBR, Hargrave previously served as senior VP of KBR Industrial Services.
Xodus Group has created a new chief technology officer position to lead its integration of surface and subsurface services. Stephane Constant, who became a non-executive director last year, has taken up the full-time post. Constant was co-founder and technical director of subsurface consultancy, Horizon Energy Partners, which he built to 100 people and sold to SGS in 2008. He started his career with ELF (now TOTAL) in 1991 as a reservoir engineer responsible for various UK-operated assets.
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. CEO Jim Hackett plans to step down in May and will be succeeded by COO Al Walker. Hackett, who has been CEO for more than eight years, will become executive chairman-—a new position—through the company’s annual shareholder meeting next year. He plans to retire in June 2013. Walker, a 30-year industry veteran, has been with Anadarko for more than six years, currently serving as a director of Centerpoint Energy, Inc. and Western Gas Holdings, a subsidiary of Anadarko, and general partner to Western Gas Partners LP.
Clariant Oil & Mining Services has named Graham Gammack head of marketing for the Oil Services business line. Gammack previously serving as director of business development. Prior to joining Clariant, Gammack served as the manager of process and capability improvement
at Baker Hughes. He has 25 years of experience in oil and gas. During his career, he has held a number of positions in technical sales, operations support and P&L management.
Imtech Marine has appointed Sytze Voulon to the position of regional director, North West Europe (Rotterdam). Voulon has held several senior management positions in the international maritime industry. Most recently he was regional director–marine Europe until 2008 and regional director–marine Europe & Africa/VP services Europe & Africa.
Reservoir Group has appointed Wade McCutcheon as COO. McCutcheon steps up to the role from his previous position as VP, responsible for the company’s formation evaluation activity. McCutcheon will oversee all operational matters, accelerating the group’s growth and maximizing synergies between existing member companies.
ABCO Subsea announced that Jeffrey T. Glattly has joined the company as director of sales and marketing. Glattly brings over 30 years of experience in strategic marketing and planning, sales, and business and market development to the company. Glattly previously worked in a consultative capacity at ABCO Subsea. In his new role, he will oversee the growing company’s marketing, customer service, advertising and sales. Glattly previously worked as director of sales at Noble Biomaterials and oversaw a sales and marketing team at Bayer Pharmaceuticals.
Murphy Oil Corporation promoted Bill Stobaugh to executive VP, corporate planning & business development, and Tom Mireles to VP of the same unit. Stobaugh joined Murphy Oil in May 1995 as VP, corporate planning, in El Dorado, Arkansas. In his new position Stobaugh will report to Murphy Oil president and CEO David Wood. Mireles joined Murphy Exploration & Production Company in August 2005 as senior staff analyst in the Frontier E&P department in Houston. In his new position, Mireles will continue to report to Stobaugh.
Shell announced that Malcolm Brinded has agreed to step down as its executive director of Upstream International. The company has appointed Andrew Brown as Upstream International director. He will be a member of the Executive Committee and will be based in the Netherlands. Brown is currently executive VP Qatar.
Kuwait has appointed Hani Hussein, a former CEO of Kuwait Petroleum Corp. (KPC), as oil minister. Hussein, who was appointed KPC chief in 2004, originally had decided in early January 2007 to step down and take early retirement. Kuwait, a member of OPEC, frequently reshuffles its cabinet, but replacing oil ministers usually doesn’t affect the country’s energy policy, which is set by the Supreme Petroleum Council.
AquaTerra Training Ltd. has appointed Charlie Cameron as operations manager. Previously, Cameron was curriculum manager at Angus College, as well as a fire and rescue crew manager.
Adira Energy Ltd. has named Jeffrey Walter as CEO, and the transition of Hezi Kugler from CEO to strategic consultant to the company. Walter previously held positions with Noble Energy for 27 years, where he led the team responsible for the largest gas discovery at the time in Israel. He directed programs increasing international oil reserves from 29% to 69% and gas reserves from 6% to 61% of overall corporate reserve base.
Noble Corporation promoted Bernie G. Wolford to senior VP-operations. Wolford previously served as the company’s VP-operational excellence. He initially joined Noble through the Transworld acquisition in 1991 and has held division manager positions in both the Middle East and Brazil divisions.
PetroFrontier Corp. has appointed Earl Scott as COO of PetroFrontier and president of its two wholly-owned Australian subsidiaries, PetroFrontier Ltd. and Texalta Ltd. Based in Adelaide, South Australia, Scott will be responsible for all operations of the two Australian subsidiaries.
Emerson Process Management announced that Curt Terje Espedal has become the new European regional manager for Roxar Software Solutions. Espedal joins Emerson from E&P software company Landmark Graphics, where he has worked for the past 13 years, and his last role was managing director of the company’s Norwegian operations.
Seanic announced the addition of three key personnel to its team. Godik Gyldenege joins the company as a manager of special projects and brings more than 40 years of experience in the subsea industry. Derek Chaplin joins the company as a mechanical design engineer with more than seven years of subsea project management and mechanical engineering experience. Lastly, Adam Padilla has been appointed tool pool manager.
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