Seadrill Limited announced today that Carl Erik Steen has resigned from the board of directors with immediate effect. Filling the position is Ørjan Svanevik, who was appointed by the board of directors to fill the vacant position starting immediately…
SpeedCast International Limited (SpeedCast) announced that Keith Johnson has joined SpeedCast as senior vice president / GM in charge of Energy services globally. In this role, Johnson will oversee all of SpeedCast’s business activities for the Energy sector (Oil and Gas in particular)…
EV, specialist in downhole video technology, has announced the appointment of Federico Casavantes as vice president of marketing.Bringing nearly 30 years’ experience to EV, Federico joins the management team with the purpose of developing and implementing the company’s growth strategy…
The Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Aberdeen Section has appointed Ross Lowdon as Chairman. He takes over from Anthony Onukwu and will hold the chairmanship until September 2015.Beginning his career as a hydrographic surveyor, Lowdon…
Schlumberger today launched the Quanta Geo* photorealistic reservoir geology service at the Offshore Northern Seas Annual Conference and Exhibition.The new service includes the industry’s first microresistivity imager that produces oriented…
OneSubsea™, a Cameron and Schlumberger company, Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. and Schlumberger today announced that they have entered into a letter of intent to form an alliance to develop technologies and deliver services to optimize…
2014 is a very special year for SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers) Aberdeen Section as it reaches its landmark 40th anniversary.To mark this and acknowledge the continuous efforts made by its members across the years, SPE Aberdeen will celebrate with a black-tie dinner on Thursday…
Norwegian oil service workers begun three days of wage talks on Tuesday, demanding a new collective agreement and higher pay, days after two unions representing platform workers broke off negotiations, raising the prospect of a strike.Oil service employees…
Eike Batista, who was Brazil's richest man for most of the past decade, is under investigation for allegedly engaging in insider trading while he chaired his now-bankrupt oil-producing and shipbuilding firms, securities industry watchdog CVM said on Friday…
Oil and gas industry body, the Intervention & Coiled Tubing Association (ICoTA) European Chapter, has appointed Former vice-chair Kelly Murray as the new chair and vice-chair. Murray will be the first women to take the helm as chair of the organization in the chapter’s 20-year history…
Premier Hytemp, a leading manufacturer of engineered alloy components for the oil and gas industry, has announced the appointments of two experienced industry professionals to its senior management team.Campbell MacPherson, who has spent…
ITC Global has announced that it has named Jean-Michel Rouylou as its new Executive Vice President of Americas and Maritime Solutions. The move comes as the company expands its organization and establishes its Americas regional headquarters in Houston…
Deep Casing Tools, which has an innovative range of tools designed to land casing and completions at target depth within oil or gas wells, has appointed Jason Henry and Magnus Wardle as Vice-Presidents of Business Development and Technology respectively…
Before the close of the inaugural Oceanology International China (OI China) held in Shanghai in early September, more than 70% of the space available for the next show in the series, being held September 3-5 , 2014 at INTEX Shanghai, had been reserved…
Global stakeholders in the unconventional arena will meet to identify and overcome the barriers to all types of unconventional gas developments at the third Unconventional Gas Aberdeen conference and exhibition March 25-26, 2014.Dan Byles…