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Chevron Australia has awarded Wood with a new contract to provide subsea integration and flow assurance front-end engineering design (FEED) services for the Jansz-Io compression project offshore Western Australia. The one-year contract will be delivered by Wood’s Perth-based team.

Petroteq Energy announced the appointment of David Sealock as the company’s CEO. Sealock has more than 26 years of strategic management and business/digital transformation leadership. He recently served as president of Autus Ventures, and prior to that he was vice president of research and development at Petroleum Technology Alliance Canada )PTAC), a Canadian hydrocar…

Gretchen Watkins, former CEO of Maersk Oil, will officially join Shell on 1 May and be appointed EVP Unconventionals effective 1 July. She succeeds EVP Unconventionals Greg Guidry, who is leaving his role on 31 June after a 36-year career with the company. After more than 37 years of Shell service, Shell Oil Company President and US Country Chair Bruce Culpepper has c…

C&J Energy Services announced the resignation of CFO Mark Cashiola. Cashiola had served in the role since 15 June 2016 and was the company’s chief accounting officer from 5 November 2016 to 5 May 2017. He joined C&J in January 2011. Prior to that, he was senior controller for Precision Drilling Oilfield Services for two years and, before its acquisition by Precision, …

The Powerbuoy from Ocean Power Technologies (OPT) has a scalable onboard battery system that can act as an offshore uninterruptible power supply (UPS) providing continuous power output. It can be used as a stand-alone charging station and communications platform that can enable the long-term remote operation of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) used in marine envi…

The period for members to comment on a draft technical report titled Hydraulic Fracture Well-to-Well Communication has been extended from 30 April to 15 May.This draft report aims to present a comprehensive, technical cause-and-effect review on the subject of fracture-driven interactions, including their causes, types, and expected consequences, and recommendations fo…

Karl-Petter Løken has been named president and CEO of Kvaerner, the Norwegian oilfield engineering and construction firm. Løken has held several key positions for companies like Statoil, Aker Solutions, and Lundin Norway. He currently serves as head of project development for Lundin; from 2011 to 2015, he was engineering manager for Lundin’s Edvard Grieg field develop…

BP appointed Susan Dio chairman and president of BP America Inc. as of 1 May.

Mark W. Albers, SPE, senior vice president of Exxon Mobil Corp. will retire from the company effective 1 April, after more than 38 years of service. Albers was elected to his current position and a member of the company’s Management Committee in 2007. Albers joined Exxon USA in 1979 and held several assignments in Texas and New Jersey and operation management roles at…

Oceanteam CEO Haico Halbesma will step down from his position effective 30 March. The decision follows a series of financial restructurings within the company in recent years. Halbesma, who will stay on as an advisor, co-founded Oceanteam in 2005 and is a major shareholder in the company. He was previously employed as a managing director at Seateam Technology.