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Steve Holditch, who served as SPE President in 2002 and was a fixture of the Texas A&M University Department of Petroleum Engineering, died 9 August. He was 72.

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the UK's workplace health and safety regulator, has announced the appointment of Sarah Albon as its chief executive. Albon comes to the position from the Insolvency Service, which she joined in February 2015. Her previous roles in the UK government include director of strategy and change at Her Majesty's Courts and Tribunal Servi…

Sarah McGavin has rejoined Deloitte as an audit director after a four-year stint with Hungarian oil and gas company MOL. McGavin was a senior audit manager with the firm during her previous career there, having initially joined as a trainee. She served as accounting and reporting manager at MOL.

DeAnn Craig, the first woman to hold the position of SPE President and who also held the top role at Phillips Petroleum Resources Canada, died 13 August. She was 68.

Subsea robotics company ROVOP has promoted David Lamont to CEO. Lamont, who currently serves as the company’s chairman, has more than 30 years’ experience in the energy services sector, including a stint as CEO of Proserv from 2011 to 2018.

TechnipFMC has won a contract to build and install subsea equipment for Neptune Energy’s Seagull offshore oil development project. The oilfield services provider will construct and install the wellheads, Xmas trees, an umbilical, flowlines, a four-slot manifold, a subsea wye structure, and a subsea control system. Located in the central UK North Sea, Seagull will be t…

OneSubsea received a 20-year equipment and services master contract from Chevron for subsea developments in the US Gulf of Mexico (GOM). The provision of a OneSubsea custom catalog of equipment will also include new technologies, including high-temperature projects or high-pressure projects requiring equipment that can withstand up to 20,000 psi.

Halfwave won another contract for subsea inspection that will see its ROV-mounted ARTEMIS tool utilized on several major oilfield projects. ARTEMIS will carry out a re-inspection of 6-in., 10-in., and 14-in. subsea flowlines for DOF Subsea in Australia, where the data collected will be used to extend the expected life of the field.

Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE), announced that Jud Bailey joined the company as vice president of investor relations, effective August 2019. Bailey joins BHGE from Wells Fargo Securities, where he spent the last five years as managing director, senior equity analyst, and head of oil services equipment research. Prior to joining Wells Fargo Securities, he was head o…

BCCK Holding Company, a provider of engineering, procurement, fabrication, and field construction services, has promoted John Peterson to senior vice president of business development. Peterson will be responsible for leading the business development teams, managing BCCK, NG Resources, and NGF Construction sales functions. He previously served as director of business …