Former Siemens smart grid division head Kevin O’Hara is now executive VP sales and marketing with Advanced Control Systems.
Felicia Harris has joined Burleson LLP as a partner in Houston. Adam Veltri has joined the firm’s Denver office. He hails from Steptoe & Johnson.
Tony Testolini has joined Cartasite as chief revenue officer. He hails from GeoGraphix.
CDA CEO Malcolm Fleming has been seconded, three days per week, to the UK DECC for a 7 month period.
Jim Barker has joined Cortex as interim president and CEO.
Charles Robertson has joined Cowen and Co.’s equity research department as a director, E&P. He joins Cowen from Millennium LP/Blue Arrow Capital.
Deep Blue Engineering has appointed Dieter Watelle to the newly-created position of Design Engineer.
Devon president and CEO John Richels is to retire next July 31. Dave Hager, currently Devon COO, is to take his place.
Divestco has promoted Dani Chiarastella to CFO.
Michael Jegen is now executive VP of Energy Navigator.
Carey Lowe has been promoted to executive VP Ensco plc. Steve Brady takes his place as SVP eastern hemisphere and Gilles Luca is now SVP western hemisphere.
Fritz Industries has hired Steve Almond as director R&D at its new Houston Technology Center. Almond was previously with Mead Westvaco.
Geospatial Corporation has opened a new district office in the Woodlands area of Houston, Texas and has hired Richard Nieman as VP sales.
Abdulaziz Al Khayyal has been named to the Halliburton board of directors. Al Khayyal retired from Saudi Aramco earlier this year.
Intertek has appointed Andy Duncan as lead consultant for its production and integrity assurance division. Duncan joins from the Health and Safety Executive’s Energy Division-Offshore.
Greg Kowalik and Todd Burns lead Noah Consulting’s new content enablement practice while Grant Hartwright heads-up the new facilities information management practice. Robert Best has joined Noah as senior principal and E&P subject-matter expert. Best hails from PetroWEB.
Howard Harary has been appointed director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Engineering Laboratory.
Inger Lise Strømme has been named director, data management and organization at the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate.
Oildex and Quorum Business Solutions have launched an electronic gas plant data exchange.
Blayne Eversole has joined ShareCat as VP business development for the Gulf of Mexico and North America. He comes from Oracle’s cloud services business.
Team Oil Tools has appointed Adam Anderson to CEO. He joins from Baker Hughes.
Robin Watson will be appointed COO of Wood Group in 2015.
The XBRL International board has elected Deloitte’s Cees de Boer as chair.
The ABB board has nominated Peter Voser to succeed Hubertus von Grünberg as chairman.
Absoft has created a new upstream consulting business line.
Gregg Budoi has joined Kalibrate as CFO and executive VP. He hails from EZ Energy USA.
Torstein Sanness is to retire from his executive position in April 2015 and assume the role of Chairman of Lundin Norway. Kristin Færøvik will assume the role of MD. She was previously with Rosenberg WorleyParsons AS.
Noble Corporation has reached a final settlement with the Department of Justice, concluding a two-year investigation into operations and systems on the Noble Discoverer drill ship. Noble will pay $8.2 million in fines and $4 million to DOJ-designated community services.
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