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BW Offshore acquired the tanker Blue Opal for USD 83.4 million from Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering. The tanker is a 320,000-deadweight-ton very large crude carrier.

Fiona MacAulay will become CEO of Echo Energy effective 4 July. MacAulay, the current COO at Rockhopper Exploration, is a geologist with more than 30 years' experience in the oil and gas industry including stints at Mobil, Amerada Hess, and BG. She joined Rockhopper in 2010 following the companies Sea Lion discovery and was a member of the senior team that managed the…

Alpha Petroleum Resources named Charles Proctor as its new CFO. Proctor is a former executive at BP and Genel Energy with more than 28 years of experience in the international energy industry. He held several commercial and financial positions at BP early in his career, eventually becoming CFP for its exploration and production businesses in Angola and Azerbaijan. In …

Frank Hermance will retire as executive chairman of the board of directors at AMETEK effective 7 July. Hermance joined the company in 1990 as group vice president and then served as president of AMETEK's Precision Instruments Group from 1994 to 1996. He was promoted to COO in 1996, and in 1999 he was named CEO, a role he held until 2016. Current AMETEK CEO David Zapic…

Melody Meyer was elected nonexecutive director for BP. Until her retirement in 2016, Meyer was president of Chevron Asia Pacific Exploration and Production, responsible for the financial and operating performance of the upstream assets in Chevron’s Asia Pacific region. Before that, she was vice president of Chevron’s Gulf of Mexico business in 2004 and became presiden…

Ali Dogru, SPE, Saudi Aramco Fellow and chief technologist at EXPEC Advanced Research Center, and SPE John Franklin Carll Award winner was elected to the US National Academy of Engineering. Dogru was elected for his outstanding achievements in the “development of high-performance computing in hydrocarbon reservoir simulation.” He is internationally renowned in this fi…

As the president of the SPE Foundation, I wanted to provide an update on what the Foundation is doing for SPE. Some history might be helpful to those who are unfamiliar with the Foundation and the important role it plays for SPE members worldwide.

Exxon Mobil Corp. elected Neil Chapman to the position of senior vice president and member of the corporation's management committee. Chapman is currently president of the ExxonMobil Chemical Company. He joined Esso Chemical in 1984 at the Esso refinery in Fawley, UK. He has held a range of senior engineering, operations, planning, and marketing roles in various chemi…

Stork has appointed Donald Brown as asset integrity director for the UK, Middle East, and Africa. Brown will oversee a number of the company's product lines and services; quality services including third-party inspection, heat treatment, monitoring solutions, and cathodic protection and integrity engineering. He has held senior leadership roles over the course of thre…

Unit Corporation named Les Austin as its senior vice president and CFO. Austin holds more than 23 years of energy finance and leadership experience, most recently serving as senior vice president and CFO of Cypress Energy Partners. From 2008 to 2011, he was the senior vice president and chief financial officer of Ram Energy Resources, eventually being promoted to COO …