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Gavin Sherwood has been appointed business development manager for Simmons Edeco Europe. He will oversee global sales and marketing initiatives for the company’s valve, wellhead, and asset integrity maintenance services supplied from its European headquarters in Great Yarmouth, England. Sherwood has 26 years of experience in well services, including 10 years in a vari…

Phaneendra Kondapi was appointed director of subsea engineering for the College of Engineering at Texas A&M University. He has more than 20 years of experience in the industry including with FMC Technologies and KBR in engineering and consulting projects worldwide. As the KBR adjunct professor of subsea engineering at the University of Houston, Kondapi helped develop …

KBR appointed Jan Egil Braendeland as president of its oil and gas business unit. He brings more than 20 years of experience in the upstream industry, rejoining the company after a brief period of time at another firm, where he served as senior vice president of upstream global business development. He was previously employed by KBR for 18 years, where he held leaders…

AccessESP appointed Anwar Assal as Middle East and North Africa regional manager. He has 20 years of well completions experience, including 15 years at Schlumberger and 5 years at Baker Hughes, with experience working in Africa, Europe, and Asia. He holds a BS in petroleum engineering from Cairo University.

Black & Veatch named John E. Murphy to lead its global construction and procurement operations, a division of the company that has grown by 33% since 2011 to more than 2,000 employees. Murphy will work with current division president Hal Smith in a transitional role through the end of the year. Smith, who has been with the company for 45 years, will retire at the end …

Wood Group Mustang named John Etherington as general manager of its Malaysia operations in the Asia Pacific region. He is based in Kuala Lumpur and oversees the company’s offshore, onshore, chemicals, oil sands, process plants, industrial, and automation and control markets. Etherington has 26 years of experience in the upstream and downstream sectors of the oil and g…

Chris Waller was named engineering manager at ACE Winches. He joins the company from SengS, where he was engineering director for 4 years. In his current role, he will oversee engineering activity including the hydraulic, mechanical, structural, electrical, and project engineering departments. Waller has held a number of senior roles over the course of a 12-year caree…

ExxonMobil Corporation elected Angela Braly to its board of directors. She was previously chairman of the health insurance company WellPoint from 2010 to 2012 and president and chief executive officer (CEO) of the company from 2007 to 2012. Prior to that, Braly held various senior executive positions at WellPoint, including general counsel and chief public affairs off…

With the oil and gas industry facing an uncertain financial future, organizations are looking for any way to save costs. One way to achieving cost savings is through efficient planning in the construction and conversion of floating production, storage, and offloading (FPSO) units. In a technical session, “Practical Steps Towards FPSO Cost Reduction,” held Wednesday at…

Complexity is the central challenge of executing deepwater major capital projects, and the industry must find ways to reduce it for future projects to be viable, Chevron’s General Manager of Facilities Engineering Mick Kraly told a luncheon audience Tuesday at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston. “Major Capital Projects Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Is The…