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2H Offshore named Yann Helle as managing director. Helle, who had previously held the position of technical manager, managed the TLP top-tensioned riser system delivery management project for Total’s Moho Nord field development. He joined the company in 2002 and has experience in riser and conductor systems, minimum facility platforms, and component package supply. He…

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…

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 …

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…

Darren Woods was elected president of ExxonMobil Corp. and as a member of the company’s board of directors. Woods joined the Exxon Co. in 1992 as a planning analyst. He has held several domestic and international positions for the ExxonMobil Refining and Supply Co., ExxonMobil Chemical Co., and Exxon Company International. He also served as manager of investor relatio…

Offshore Installation Services (OIS) named Colin Shellard as its managing director. Shellard has more than 16 years of experience in offshore construction and subsea engineering. He joined OIS as vice president of operations in December 2014, helping to lead the company’s well decommissioning campaign with Centrica Energy and Antrim Energy. Shellard has also worked in…

OPITO International, a developer of safety training standards, hired Richard Edwards as its Americas approvals manager. Edwards joins the company from Falck Safety Services, where he was a facility training manager. He entered the oil and gas industry in 2013 as a health, safety, and environment training instructor at Falck, eventually moving on to a number of senior …

KBR appointed Ann Pickard to its board of directors. Pickard has held several positions during a 15-year career at Shell, including her most recent position as executive vice president of the company’s Arctic operations. She spent 3 years as executive vice president of Shell’s exploration and production business and country chair of the company’s Australian operations…