Africa-focused Sterling Energy today announced the departure date for Phil Frank, who it had previously said was to step down from the board. He will leave the alternative investment market-listed firm's boardroom team on Friday.
Months of hard science by budding young students at an Aberdeen school came to an end yesterday when they presented their projects at TechFest last week. TechFest's Heroes of Tomorrow event, sponsored by Statoil, had pupils from S1 to S6 giving short presentations to their families and peers on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
Maersk have launched a new training facility in Kingswells, providing additional training opportunities to oil and gas workers in Aberdeen. Launched this week, the centre aims to complement the training facilities that already exist in the north-east, including the survival centre in Portlethen and the boat training facility in Stonehaven.
DOF Subsea S&P UK has secured a contract extension with Heerma Marine Contractors. The contract will cover global provision of survey and positioning services on board Heerma Marine Contractor's vessels, including the Hermod, Balder, Thialf, Aegir, support vessels and anchor handlers.
A PetroMaroc director has resigned from the company's board. Yogeshwar Sharma decided to step down from the role due to other commitments and time constraints.
A map of the world has been created to help keep oil and gas companies updated on regions that pose the most risks to their staff. International SOS has released its Health Risk Map 2015, which helps oil companies, non governmental organisations, educational institutions and governments understand health threats around the world. For Aberdeen-based oil companies in particular, it helps employers ensure that their staff are safe ahead of overseas assignments.
Wood Group Kenny (WGK) has appointed a North Sea regional director with 20 years of experience in the oil and gas industry as their new chief executive. WGK's new chief executive, Bob MacDonald, succeeds Steve Wayman who has now become the company's new head of strategy and development. He is replacing Ali Green who will step down from his current role but will continue to provide support to the team as he transitions out of the business in 2015.
Dong Energy has made changes to its board of directors. Jorn Jensen will step down from his position as deputy chair at the annual general meeting next month. Lene Skole and Lynda Armstrong have been nominated as new members to Dong Energy’s board of directors.
Wood Group has appointed a new chief executive to Wood Group Mustang (WG Mustang). Michele McNichol will succeed Steve Knowles who retires from the company in April. Ms McNichol has more than 25 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry and has been with WG Mustang since 2001.
One of the top positions at an Aberdeen-based oil and gas company has been filled by a worker with around 40 years experience in the industry. Dave Stewart has landed the role of chief executive officer at Wood Group PSN and will begin in the role in April 2015.
The acting chief executive of Molopo Energy has stepped down after four months in charge. Don Engle first took up the role last September and recently completed the sale of the Fiesta asset and helped the new board with corporate procedural matters.
A new chairman with more than 30 years of experience in the oil and gas sector has been appointed to the board of an African mineral company. Base Resources Limited have named Keith Spence - who has worked with both Shell and Woodside - as an independent non-executive director. The firm said he will bring significant resource sector, international and corporate development experience to their team.
Delphian Ballistics has appointed a full-time operations director to its team. Serena Arif, a trained chemist with 15 years’ experience in the energy sector, has held a number of technical positions in the plastics and paper industries. Prior to her role with the well technology specialists, Ms Arif was subsea business director for materials and technology specialist Aubin.
Centrica has appointed a new non-executive director to the company. Steve Pusey will become a member of its audit, nominations and remuneration committee. Mr Pusey is currently the chief technology officer of Vodafone after joining the company in 2006 but is set to retire in July this year.
Transocean said its current chief executive Steve Newman has stepped down from his role. The company said both Mr Newman and the board of directors had mutually agreed that he will step down as well as resigning as a director. Ian Strachan, chairman of the board, will step in as Transocean’s interim chief executive officer.
Houston-based Flexitallic Group has appointed Jon Stokes as its new chief executive.
The outgoing boss of Bond Offshore Helicopters, Luke Farajallah, is trading rotor blades for fixed wings, it emerged yesterday.
Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) has appointed its second US-based non-executive director. D. Michael Steuert will join the company on February, 9 following the appointment of Houston-based Paul Cavicchi in October 2014.
Savanna has confirmed that Ken Mullen has resigned as a director of the firm. Mr Mullen, who is also chief exectuve, will step down from the role today.
Chevron has appointed a new corporate vice president to its company. Jeanette Ourada will take over the position from Matthew Foehr on April 1 following his retirement from the company after 33 years. In her new role, Ms Ourada will lead corporate-wide accounting, financial reporting and analysis and internal controls.
Specialist investors in oil and gas services Epi-V has appointed a new chief executive and chairman as it aims to expand its global footprint. Geoff Holmes will take on the role of chief executive and Tony Kitchener joins the firm as chairman.
The first senior appointments to the new Oil and Gas Authority (OGA) have been made. Chief executive, Andy Samuel, has selected the first of his three directors of the new regulatory body, created following Sir Ian Wood's review of the UK oil and gas industry in 2014.
Tetra Technologies has confirmed a reshuffle of its personnel. Peter Pintar, the current senior vice president of strategy and development will become the senior vice president of the offshore division.
Apache has appointed a new chief financial officer as the firm sets out long-term growth objectives. Stephen Riney will take on the role as chief financial officer and executive vice president next month.
Shoreline Energy has confirmed the resignation of one of its key managers. Gary Lobb quit as chief financial officer with immediate effect to pursue other interests.