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Liam Mallon has been elected president of ExxonMobil Development Company. Mallon, who currently serves as the company's executive vice president, joined Mobil in 1990 and held a variety of progressively senior positions before becoming operations manager in Nigeria in 1998. He served in the same capcity in Australia from 2000 to 2003, after which he became planning ma…

Neil Duffin has been appointed president of ExxonMobil Production Company and was elected to serve as a vice president of the ExxonMobil Corporation. Duffin joined Mobil in 1979 and has held a variety of managerial positions in production, operations, and development. In 1992, he was named producing advisor for Europe and Africa. In 1995, he was named manager of Mobil…

Jacqui Ferguson has joined Wood Group as a nonexecutive director on its board of directors. Ferguson, currently senior vice president and general manager of Hewlett-Packard UKI (United Kingdom and Ireland) and MEMA (Middle East, Mediterranean, and Africa), will also join the board’s nomination and audit committees. She has been in her current position since 2014. Prio…

Ali Moshiri will retire from his position of president at Chevron Africa and Latin America Exploration and Production (E&P) Company effective 1 January 2017. Moshiri has held various leadership roles at Chevron over the course of his 38-year career, including manager of petroleum and facilities engineering, general manager of strategic planning and assets evaluation f…

The oil and gas sector is an area primed for transformational development of its operations through new digital infrastructures, GE’s CEO said in an address to technological developers and company partners.

Chevron named Clay Neff president of Chevron Africa and Latin America Exploration and Production (E&P), effective 1 January 2017. Neff, who is currently managing director of Chevron's Nigeria Mid-Africa business unit, will oversee the company's E&P activities in 15 countries across Africa and Latin America. In his current role, Neff is responsible for Chevron's upstre…

A new diagnostic technology that exclusively uses surface pressure data to map hydraulic fracturing in unconventional reservoirs has helped an operator to improve well completion designs in its Oklahoma field activities. 

Surplus production in the oil markets is likely to grow in 2017, and long-term oil prices will track with costs and not revert to the margin-inflated patterns of the shale boom.

Iran’s national oil company is offering investment opportunities in 50 fields to global bidders, its first effort to do so since the 2015 pact with world powers that lifted nuclear-related sanctions against the country.

Farstad appointed Brett Silich as a managing director for its Australian offices. Silich has previously worked in senior positions at Maersk, Subsea 7, and served a stint as chief executive officer at Velocious. He had been managing director at Wallaby Engineering since 2013. He holds an honors degree in mechanical engineering from Curtin University.

Suncor Energy added Michael Creel to its board of directors. Creel previously served as chief executive officer (CEO) and director of the general partners at Enterprise Products Partners, a provider of midstream energy services, from 2010 to 2015. He joined Enterprise Products in 1999 and held positions of increasing responsibility within the company. Creel also serve…

MMI Engineering, a technical consultancy, named John Evans as managing director. Evans has more than 25 years of professional experience, including stints as principal consultant at the GL Group and as general manager of ESR Technology’s Aberdeen office. He has been MMI’s UK operations manager since 2015, and since 2010 he has served as manager of the company’s office…