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January 31, 2019
Faroe Petroleum, the independent oil and gas company focusing principally on exploration, appraisal and production opportunities in Norway and the UK, announces that Mr. Bjørn Dale has been appointed as Chairman of the company and Mr. Ørjan Gjerde has been appointed as non-executive director of the dompany with immediate effect.
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January 31, 2019
Marathon Oil Corporation's board of directors has appointed Lee Tillman as the company's chairman of Marathon Oil Corporation, effective Feb. 1.
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January 23, 2019
Neptune Energy has announced the appointment of Kaveh Pourteymour as Chief Information Officer, based in London. He will take up the new role in the first half of 2019.
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January 21, 2019
Jon Rogers, a highly respected global oilfield executive who served in senior roles at BP and Clariant, has been named CEO of Locus Bio-Energy Solutions, a disruptive technology company whose unique bio-chemical based production and drilling fluid chemistries are increasing oil production and safety, and attracting top industry talent.
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January 18, 2019
Freedom Oil & Gas Ltd has announced that effective Jan. 14, 2019, J. Russell Porter will be joining the company as president, CEO, and a member of the board of directors. J. Michael Yeager, Freedom's chairman of the board, president and CEO will remain as non-executive chairman.
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January 17, 2019
Royal Dutch Shell plc (Shell) has announced the appointment of Wael Sawan as upstream director with effect from July 1, 2019.
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January 14, 2019
Dave Lesar, fresh from retiring as executive chairman of Halliburton Co. at the end of 2018, is working on a new venture in the oil patch with funding from private equity firm CSL Capital Management.
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January 14, 2019
Halliburton Company has announced that Mark Richard, previously senior V.P. of the Northern Region, has been promoted to succeed Jim Brown as president of the Western Hemisphere effective Feb. 1, 2019.
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January 11, 2019
Brendan Warn has been appointed senior V.P., investor relations of Total, effective January 1, 2019. He succeeds Mike Sangster.
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January 11, 2019
Seadrill Limited has announces today that its CFO, Mark Morris, will step down from his position following the completion of the company's financial restructuring. He will remain in post until the end of June 2019 to enable the company to find a suitable replacement.
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January 09, 2019
API President and CEO Mike Sommers has addressed more than 400 government, labor and industry leaders on America’s economic leadership at API’s ninth annual State of American Energy address.
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January 08, 2019
One of the oil industry’s highest-paid executives is taking a pay cut as his company braces for possibly difficult times ahead after its stock plunged last year.
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January 07, 2019
TAM International, Inc., an independent oilfield services company providing inflatable and swellable packers to the oil and gas industry, announces the promotion of Barton Sponchia to V.P. Western Hemisphere.
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January 02, 2019
Halliburton Company has announced its board of directors has appointed Jeff Miller, the company’s president and CEO, as chairman of the board, effective Jan. 1, 2019.
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December 19, 2018
Moreira Franco has had a long, varied and distinguished career spanning decades in Brazilian politics and academia, starting out as a sociology professor at the Federal Fluminense University before making the move into politics as the Mayor of Niterói in 1977.
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December 17, 2018
Kuwaiti Oil Minister Bakheet Al-Rashidi’s resignation has been accepted, according to a person familiar with the situation.
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December 12, 2018
Bureau Veritas, testing, inspection, and certification TIC services company, has announced the appointments of two leadership roles as the company continues its commitment towards growing in key market sectors and streamlining its business operations across North America.
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December 04, 2018
When Stacey Olson got her first energy job 29 years ago, she was a "company man." That’s what Chevron Corp. called its representative on an oil rig staffed mostly by contractors.
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November 28, 2018
Energy Web Atlas names Harry Brookby as V.P., data sales
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November 22, 2018
China has named a leading business executive to its top energy post, eschewing a practice of appointing career politicians as the nation pushes through an overhaul of its massive energy sector.
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