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Fugro appointed former Statoil chairman Øystein Løseth as CEO. Løseth will join Fugro's board of management on 1 January 2018, beginning a transition period that will last until his eventual assumption of the CEO role on 26 April. He served as Statoil's chairman from 2015 to 2017, and served as an independent director with the company for 3 years prior. From 2010 to 2…

Ray Riddoch has been named co-chairman of the board of directors of Oil & Gas UK. Riddoch currently serves as UK managing director and senior vice president for Nexen's European operations. Riddoch has more than 30 years of upstream experience in the UK, Europe, and Africa. He was appointed managing director at Nexen in July 2015 after joining the company in 2011. Pri…

McDermott named Ian Prescott as vice president, Asia, effective 8 January. Prior to his appointment, Prescott was senior vice president and director of Asia Pacific for SNC-Lavalin, and he also served as the managing director, general manager, and later CEO of Global Process Systems. He has held leadership positions with PAE and Aker. Prescott has more than 28 years o…

Exxon Mobil Corp. elected Neil Chapman to the position of senior vice president and member of the corporation's management committee. Chapman is currently president of the ExxonMobil Chemical Company. He joined Esso Chemical in 1984 at the Esso refinery in Fawley, UK. He has held a range of senior engineering, operations, planning, and marketing roles in various chemi…

Akastor ASA appointed Karl Erik Kjelstad CEO effective from 1 January. Kjelstad succeeded Kristian Røkke who became the chief investment officer of Aker ASA on 1 January. Kjelstad has been EVP and investment director at Akastor since its establishment in 2014. He joined the Aker group in 1998 and has held executive positions throughout the group, including EVP of Aker…

Suncor appointed Dennis Houston to its board of directors. He is the former executive vice president for ExxonMobil Refining & Supply Company, a position he held from 1999 to 2010. He previously served as vice president, Exxon Supply & Transportation, managing the company’s supply business as well as its international marine transportation operations. He also has inte…

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Linda Capuano, most recently a fellow in energy technology in the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, has begun her service as administrator of the Energy Information Administration in the US Department of Energy, the EIA announced on 9 January. She was nominated for the post by President Donald Trump on 3 November 2017 an…

Applaud excellence in the E&P industry by nominating a colleague for an annual award given by the Society of Petroleum Engineers. SPE Awards recognize expertise and contributions to the upstream oil and gas industry. The 2018 SPE Awards will be presented at the international and regional levels for:

Blackmer's S Series of twin and triple screw pumps are self-priming, double-ended positive displacement pumps whose design provides complete axial balancing of the rotating screws and whose timing technologies eliminate metal-to-metal contact with the pump. They are ATEX-certified for use in explosive or dangerous environments. The pumps are available in four distinct…