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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 …

Kline appointed Annie Jarquin as director in the energy practice and Hardeep Parmar as director in the chemicals practice. Jarquin ran the global lubricants and greases benchmarking and analysis project at Malik Management, where she advised lubricant companies on operations improvement and cost reduction. She holds a BEng with honors in chemical and process engineeri…

Joseph Bramande joins Pulse Structural Monitoring as the business development manager of marine systems, including mooring lines and subsea infrastructure. He joins the company after 5 years with ExxonMobil as the project controls lead of the PNG liquefied natural gas project in Papua New Guinea. Bramande holds a BS in civil engineering from Louisiana Tech University.

T.D. Williamson named Chad C. Fletcher as vice president of Western Hemisphere operations. In his new role, Fletcher is responsible for strategic initiatives and daily business in the region. He has more than 25 years of experience in the energy business, starting as an engineer in the pipeline industry. He later founded a technology firm, Enginuity International, whi…

Nigel Hearne has been named managing director of Chevron’s Australasia business unit (ABU). Hearne joined Texaco in 1989, prior to its merger with Chevron, and served as operations manager for the Pembroke refinery in the United Kingdom and for Chevron’s refinery in El Segundo, California, before becoming vice president of strategy for the company’s downstream strateg…

Appointment of Donnie Busscher as engineering manager was announced by Stokes and Spiehler. Busscher worked as an in-house engineer and wellsite consultant for land and offshore operations before joining Stokes and Spiehler. He holds a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Neil Chapman was appointed as the president of ExxonMobil Chemical and elected to serve as the vice president of ExxonMobil, replacing the retiring Stephen Pryor. Chapman joined the company in 1984, working for an Esso Chemical refinery in the United Kingdom. He advanced within the company in a series of engineering, operations, planning, and marketing roles in chemic…

Pump Solutions Group (PSG) named three of its executives as presidents of different geographic regions as part of a corporate restructuring program. Ueli Thuerig became president of PSG EMEA (Europe, Middle East, and Africa), Karl Buscher was named president of PSG Americas, and David Wang was appointed president of PSG Asia. Previously, Thuerig was president of PSG E…

The Industry Technology Facilitator has appointed Richard Luff to its board as a nonexecutive director. Luff, who currently serves as senior vice president at Intecsea, has more than 40 years’ experience in the oil and gas sector. He has worked in subsea industries around the world, including Saudi Arabia, Norway, Brazil, and the United States. In 2007, he joined a st…

Yang Hua was appointed chief executive officer and redesignated as executive director of the China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC). Yang has more than 30 years of experience in petroleum exploration and production. From 1982 to 1992, he served in a number of positions at the CNOOC Research Center, including director of its field development department and ma…