At today’s annual general meeting, shareholders of Ensco, a UK-based drilling contractor, elected two new directors to the board of directors of Ensco plc (NYSE: ESV) and passed special resolutions authorizing $2 billion in share repurchases and declassifying the board. The new board members are Roxanne J. Decyk, former Executive Vice President of Global Government [...]
Now in its 16th year, Insight to MENA at OTC, the welcome reception that kicks off the largest energy conference in the world, has become known as fertile ground for fostering relationships and facilitating international deals between companies across the globe. The event, scheduled for May 6th in Texas, USA, welcomes over 1000 energy executives [...]
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Lamprell, a leading provider of diversified engineering and contracting services to the onshore and offshore oil & gas and renewable energy industries, announces that, further to its announcement of 3 December 2012, James Moffat has now taken up his role as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the Group. Peter Whitbread, who has been acting in [...]
Bridge Energy has completed an agreement with Agora Oil & Gas (UK) Limited, owned by Cairn Energy, and JX Nippon Exploration & Production (UK) Limited for the farm-down of a 16.5% working interest in the P1763 Aragon prospect in the UK Northern North Sea. As a result of the Transaction, all parties have agreed to [...]
Australia’s Woodside has appointed Frank Cooper to its Board as a non-executive director effective 1 February 2013. Cooper joins Woodside as an independent director. Cooper has more than 35 years experience in corporate tax, specialising in the mining, energy and utilities sector, and is a partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers. He will retire from that firm on [...]
India-headquartered oil and gas exploration and production company Cairn India has appointed Sudhir Mathur as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) & Member Executive Committee. Sudhir joins Cairn India in early September 2012 from Aircel Cellular Ltd., where he was the CFO and responsible for Strategy, Finance, Supply Chain Management and Regulatory Affairs. Sudhir graduated in Economics [...]
Subsea connector specialist, First Subsea Ltd has appointed John Shaw as managing director. Previously First Subsea’s global operations director, he will be responsible for the on-going development and growth of the company’s ball and taper connector business in the oil and gas and renewable energy markets. Before joining First Subsea in 2011, Mr Shaw was [...]
Aberdeen-based oilfield services firm Coretrax Technology Limited has appointed Scott Laing as Business Development Manager. Mr Laing joins Coretrax from MI Swaco Wellbore Productivity where he was based in Egypt since 2007. He brings over 20 years of experience within the global oil industry with specific expertise in wellbore clean-up projects and technologies. Coretrax specialises [...]
ATP Oil & Gas Corporation, an international offshore oil and gas development and production company with operations in the Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranean Sea and the North Sea, announced that Matt McCarroll has joined ATP as Chief Executive Officer of ATP Oil & Gas Corporation. ATP Chairman T. Paul Bulmahn stated, “We are very pleased [...]
His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, President of Dubai Civil Aviation and Chairman of Emirates Group, welcomed Khamis Juma Buamim Chairman, Drydocks World and Maritime World and heads and senior executives of the teams involved in the building of Shell’s Prelude FLNG project. The delegation comprised of Mr. Jean Marc Aubry President Technip [...]
