Nam Cheong Limited Malaysia’s largest Offshore Support Vessel (“OSV”) builder, today announced the appointment of Leong Seng Keat as the Group’s Chief Executive Officer with immediate effect. He was Nam Cheong’s Executive Director, and the new appointment is in line with the Group’s strategy to strengthen and streamline the management team as it embarks on [...]
Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE: CHK) today announced that Robert Douglas (“Doug”) Lawler, 46, Senior Vice President, International and Deepwater Operations at Anadarko Petroleum, will join Chesapeake as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors, effective June 17. Lawler is a petroleum engineer with 25 years of experience in the upstream Exploration [...]
The Board of Directors of PA Resources has decided with immediate effect to appoint Board member Philippe R Probst as the company’s CEO. Bo Askvik is thereby leaving his position as CEO but will be available to the company for a number of months. Philippe R Probst will be CEO during an interim period and [...]
BG Group Chief Executive, Chris Finlayson will today deliver a strategy update outlining the next stage of the company’s growth. The Group’s immediate priority is execution, primarily the delivery of its 2013 milestones and the growth projects in Australia and Brazil. As detailed in the company’s first quarter results, BG Group is making good progress [...]
The Board of Norwegian Energy Company ASA (Noreco) announced that Svein Arild Killingland has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the company group. Svein Arild Killingland will take office on Monday 13 May 2013. Svein Arild Killingland (57) was until recently employed as Senior Partner in HitecVision (2010-12). Killingland has previously held positions [...]
Brazilian oil company HRT Participações em Petróleo S.A. on Friday, May 20, announced that Marcio Rocha Mello’s resigned as Chief Executive Officer of the company. He will remain as a member of the Board of Directors of the Company. “I resign to the position of Chief Executive Officer of HRT, the Company I had proudly [...]
Songa Offshore SE, a Cyprus-headquartered offshore drilling contractor, has appointed Bjørnar Iversen as new CEO of Songa Offshore SE, effective as of June 1st. Iversen will relocate to Limassol and take up the position only weeks after he joined the company as president of Songa Rig AS. “Sometimes you are simply lucky enough to find [...]
ABB Chief Executive Officer Joe Hogan has decided to leave ABB for private reasons. A date for his departure has not yet been decided. Hogan will continue to lead ABB until a successor is announced. He is committed to a smooth transition. “Joe is a great and successful CEO and has done a remarkable job of [...]
Women can get to the top. In order for this to happen, growth should be a step by step process, along with experience and personal and professional maturity. This was one of the opinions given by Petrobras CEO, Maria das Graças Silva Foster, during the event called “Wise: Women in the Industry Sharing Experiences”, which [...]
Pacific Drilling S.A. announced revenue of $175.0 million and net income of $15.1 million or $0.07 per diluted share for the three months ended March 31, 2013. In the prior year period, excluding loss of hire insurance recovery of $23.7 million, net loss was $5.3 million or $0.02 per diluted share on revenue of $117.4 [...]
