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Flowserve announced the hiring of Lee Eckert as senior vice president and CFO effective 9 October. Eckert has more than two decades of financial experience. He previously spent 2 years as senior vice president and CFO of CHC Group, a commercial helicopter provider to the offshore oil and gas industry. Before that, he was CFO of the US division of National Grid and ser…

Santos appointed Vanessa Guthrie as an independent nonexecutive director on its board of directors. Guthrie has experience in the mining industry across a variety of roles, including operations, environment, community, indigenous affairs, corporate development, and sustainability. She was previous a managing director and CEO of Toro Energy Limited and VP of sustainabl…

The Cambay Joint Venture secured the Essar Rig 4 for drilling the Cambay-77H well in its Cambay Tight Hydrocarbon Project in the Cambay basin in India through Essar Oilfield Services. The well is expected to be spudded in the middle of the first quarter.

Manfred Vonlanthen has been named CEO of Swire Oilfield Services, a supplier of cargo carrying units to the offshore energy industry. Vonlanthen joined the company in 2014 as general manager for its Norwegian division before becoming director of its North Sea operations last September. In addition to managing the North Sea business, he served on Swire's executive mana…

BP named Melody Meyer to its board of directors. Meyer retired from Chevron on 1 June 2016 after 37 years with the company. She is the former president of Chevron Asia Pacific Exploration and Production and has experience in global upstream operations, strategic and business planning, and major capital projects such as the Tengiz project in Kazakhstan. She was vice pr…

Kraken Sonar has named Neil Riggs as a senior project manager. Riggs recently spent 5 years with the Autonomous Ocean Systems Laboratory of Memorial University of Newfoundland, where he was the project manager of an underwater robotics program. He is a member of the Professional Engineers and Geoscientists--Newfoundland and Labrador and one of two founders of the Ocea…

China Oilfield Services Limited (COSL) has entered into a long-term cooperation contract with Pemex for COSL4, a 2,000‑HP module rig. The rig’s operation period will be more than 1,700 days.

Materia appointed Neal Gilmore as vice president of operations. Gilmore has more than 25 years of experience in chemical process and manufacturing operations,. He served as vice president of operations at KMCO from 2013 to 2016 and wes general manger at Marsulex from 2011 to 2013. Gilmore holds a BS in chemistry from Texas A&M University.

Drydocks World was awarded a USD‑730-million contract from Drill One Capital to construct a large rig for the North Sea. Completion of the CJ-80 jack-up rig is set for 2017.

Chris Nussbaum, SPE, died 5 May. He was the chairman of the SPE Aberdeen Section from 2009 to 2011. Nussbaum was interpretation development advisor at Archer UK, where he provided expert technical support in log processing and interpretation services for the global wireline division. He joined Archer in 2011 as data services manager. Nussbaum was the chief executive o…