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Kinder Morgan promoted Kimberly Dang from CFO to president. Steven Kean will retain the CEO title, and Richard Kinder remains executive chairman. Dang joined Kinder Morgan in 2001 as director of investor relations and was named VP, investor relations, in 2002, treasurer in 2004, CFO in 2005, and a member of the office of the chairman in 2014. Prior to joining Kinder M…

Thermo Scientific's SOLA iQ on-line sulfur analyzer measures total sulfur content of liquid- or gas-phase samples without requiring lab analysis. Features of the SOLA iQ analyzer build upon previous instruments in the SOLA product line. The analyzer offers an updated modular design that eases routine maintenance and features measurement ranges from 2 ppm to 100% and l…

An agreement with DF Barnes is expected to provide financial security for the Scottish fabrication company, which had been on the verge of closure.

Why do 80% of megaprojects in the oil industry fail? A recently published book reaches a counterintuitive conclusion on the leadership traits required to run complex projects successfully.

Elisabeth Proust will retire as managing director of Total E&P UK after 38 years with the company. She had served in her current position since November 2015. Prior to that, she worked as managing director for Nigeria operations at Total. She began her career as a junior drilling supervisor at Elf Aquitaine (now Total) in 1980. She worked with the company’s developmen…

Josh C. Anders joined Samson Resources II as CFO. He has over 20 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, most recently as CFO and executive VP of Adams Resources & Energy Previously, he served as VP and controller at Southwestern Energy Company; VP and treasurer for Beryl Oil and Gas; and corporate finance manager at Pogo Producing Company. Anders is a certif…

Jones Energy appointed Jeff Tanner COO and interim CEO after the immediate termination of CEO Jonny Jones and President Mike McConnell. Jones will continue to serve as chairman and McConnell will remain a board member. Tanner joined the company in 2014 and served as executive VP for geosciences and business development. He has over 27 years of technical and managerial…

As it works to increase production to 1 million BOE/D, Permian mainstay Pioneer is taking a methodical approach to sustaining capital efficiency.

Chief Executive Officer Ben van Beurden has the same message for activists seeking to bind Royal Dutch Shell to deep emissions cuts and investors concerned about the merits of shifting away from oil and gas: Trust me.

Oilfield services provider Petrofac named Allan Cockriel chief information officer. Cockriel joins the company from GE, where he was responsible for IT and service delivery for the combined GE Power/Alstom Global Parts Fulfillment IT organization. During his 14 years at GE, he also worked in areas of international IT leadership, global restructuring and business trans…

The Model FT4X from Fox Thermal is a thermal gas mass flowmeter that measures process gas flow rates, totals, and temperatures. It is equipped with a second-generation direct digitally controlled (DDC) sensor, as well as an advanced data logger with a real-time clock that can calculate up to 40 totals in a 24-hour period. A USB connection comes standard with the flowm…

Tullow Oil appointed Dorothy Thompson as independent non-executive director and chair-designate effective 25 April, after which she will assume the role of chairman. Thompson spent 12 years as CEO of the energy trader Drax Group, leaving the company at the end of 2017. Before that, she managed InterGen’s European power business, was head of project finance at PowerGen…