PEOPLE

InterMoor named Mark Jones global CEO.

Paulo Ruiz Sternadt has been appointed CEO of the Dresser- Rand business, part of Siemens Power and Gas Division. He succeeds Judith Marks, who has left the company at her own request.

Niels Versfeld has been appointed CEO of SIMMONS EDECO.

Whiting Petroleum Corp. selected Bradley J. Holly as president, CEO and a member of the company’s board of directors.

MDU Resources Group Inc. named Trevor J. Hastings president and CEO of WBI Holdings Inc., the company’s pipeline and energy services business.

Kreuz Subsea appointed AJ Jain CEO and Balaji Bhashyam COO.

FairfieldNodal selected Tom Scoulios as senior vice president and CTO of geosciences and Shawn Rice as senior vice president and COO.

The Siemens Gamesa board named Miguel Ángel López CFO; Andreas Nauen offshore CEO; and Jürgen Bartl the general counsel and general secretary of Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy. In addition, the Siemens Gamesa Offshore Business Unit CEO Michael Hannibal has decided to leave the company. José Antonio Cortajarena also has left the company as general secretary and deputy secretary to the board of directors.

Universal Tool and Production Co. selected Martin Todd to take over from David Ferris as managing director following Ferris’ retirement in October.

Aqualis Offshore selected Dr. Bjarte Røed as head of its Norwegian operation.

3D at Depth appointed Cory Moore global offshore operations manager and Ian Roberts senior mechanical design engineer.

TGT Oilfield Services appointed Antoine El Kadi global geoscience manager.

READ Cased Hole welcomed David Steer as ANSA service delivery manager and Nicolas Kotler as senior cased hole analyst.

True Oil LLC promoted John Fanto to manager.

Milestone Environmental Services promoted Jason Larchar to vice president of engineering and Jesse Post to vice president of sales.

London Offshore Consultants (LOC) appointed Ke Wan to lead its team in China. Donny Ng, after 12 years in starting and developing LOC in China, will return to Singapore to become the business development director for LOC in the Asia-Pacific.

Ryan Henderson has been appointed vice president of sales and marketing for Wellsite Fishing and Rental Services LLC.

Liberty Lift Solutions LLC hired Matt Easley and James Hubbard to expand its Jet Pump product line into the areas around Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle.

Noble Energy Inc. elected Holli C. Ladhani to its board of directors.

John B. Frank has been elected to Chevron Corp.’s board of directors. Frank’s appointment is effective Nov. 2, and he will serve on the company’s Audit Committee.

Energistics Consortium Inc. appointed three new directors to its board: Bettina Bachmann, Gavin Rennick and Tommy Inglesby.

Faroe Petroleum selected Brent Cheshire as an independent nonexecutive director.

Ardyne appointed Paul Warwick nonexecutive chairman.

Entek Energy Ltd.’s board appointed its nonexecutive chairman, Mark McAuliffe, to the role of executive chairman and managing director.

Carl-Henric Svanberg has informed BP’s board of directors of his intention to retire as chairman. Svanberg will chair the annual general meeting to be held in May 2018 and will remain in position until a successor is in post. Ian Davis, the BP board’s senior independent director, will lead the process to identify and appoint BP’s next chairman.

The Railroad Commission of Texas Chairperson Christi Craddick and Commissioners Ryan Sitton and Wayne Christian voted unanimously to appoint Wei Wang to serve as interim executive director.

Former IPAA Chairman George Alcorn passed away in October. He was a third-generation independent oil and gas producer and served as chairman from 1993 to 1995.

Sir Bob Reid is to take up a new role as nonexecutive director of Belltree.

Paul D. Westerman has been appointed to Gulfport Energy Corp.’s board of directors as well as the board’s Compensation Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee.

TransCanada Corp. appointed Thierry Vandal a new independent director.

COMPANIES

SUEZ broke ground on a new laboratory in Tomball, Texas, north of Houston, which is expected to open mid-2018. In addition to continuing the R&D of specialty chemicals for the industrial segment, the new facility will expand to include further process innovation in the oil and gas industry, focusing on global upstream and downstream applications.

Clariant will construct a Regional Technical Laboratory at the Midland facility located in the Permian Basin. At almost twice the size of Clariant’s current laboratory and with upgraded equipment, the company will be able to increase sample activity for customers by 45%.

Agility, a global logistics provider, has opened a training facility known as the Center of Excellence at the Rumaila Energy Park in southern Iraq. In partnership with Strategic Analytics Team, the facility offers training courses for the local workforce in the oil and gas industry.

Petrohab LLC has established a Brazilian subsidiary named Petrohab Oil & Gas Serviços Ltd. headquartered in Macaé.

AFGlobal has acquired the Axon pressure pump technology and product line from Amkin Technologies LLC, a privately held oilfield equipment and technology developer.

Drillinginfo has acquired Oil-Law Records, one of the first oil and gas industry information providers in the U.S.

SIMMONS EDECO opened its first base of operations in Denmark. The decision to expand into Denmark was triggered by a recent contract awarded to provide wellhead maintenance services for wells in the Danish North Sea.