Halliburton has added Janet Weiss and Maurice Smith to its board of directors. Shannon Slocum, formerly SVP Global Business Development and Marketing, has been promoted to President, Eastern Hemisphere.
Adam Sobey has been appointed to lead the Lloyd’s Register Foundation-Alan Turing Institute’s data-centric engineering program. Sobey is a Professor in the Maritime Engineering group at the University of Southampton.
Marc Bolick is joining AFL as president of product solutions. He was previously VP of Corning’s Wireless Business Unit. AFL, a provider of communications hardware to the energy and other markets, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujikura of Japan.
EPC BCCK has promoted Naomi Baker to VP engineering. The company has also appointed Drew Schiller as director of business development-gas processing. He was previously director of energy services for Halff Associates.
Trellis Energy Software has appointed Rana Basu as VP Growth. The company also reported the 2022 hiring of Scott Vogan as VP Sales. Basu previously founded Consurgo, a network of energy trading professionals focused on hydrocarbon trading risk management. Vogan hails from Accenture.
Allen Li has joined Bentley Systems as General Manager, China. He hails from SAP.
Flotek Industries has promoted president Ryan Ezell to CEO. Interim CEO Harsha Agadi moves to non-executive chairman.
John Eastwood has been selected by Society of Exploration Geophysicists voting members to serve as president-elect for 2023–2024. Eastwood worked for ExxonMobil/Imperial Oil for more than 30 years. View the list of all the newly elected board members and district representatives and their bios on the SEG Elections page.
The SEG Foundation has appointed Sarah Hewitt as MD and Sarah Castro as Manager at the Houston HQ.
The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate has appointed Kjersti Dahle as director at its TAS (technology, analysis and coexistence) unit.
Offshore Energies UK has appointed three new board members, Jillian Owen (Apache North Sea), Abdou Beloucif (Baker Hughes) and Sayma Cox (North Sea Midstream Partners).
Operational technology security specialist XONA Systems has appointed Ron Fabela as Field CTO. Fabela was co-Founder of SynSaber and has worked in cybersecurity roles at companies such as Gravwell, Dragos, Lockheed Martin and Booz Allen Hamilton. He also served active duty in the US Air Force.
Asset Guardian Solutions has hired Claudine Beaver as senior account manager. She hails from CodeWeavers.
Black & Veatch has promoted Narsingh Chaudhary to President, Asia Pacific and India, succeeding Hoe Wai Cheong who retires at the end of 2023.
PRCI, the Pipeline Research Council International has named Walter Crommelin (Gasunie) as Vice Chair of the Executive Board, filling the unexpired term of Shahani Kariyawasam.
Oxford Flow has announced the appointment of Adam Eckersley as Chief Technology Officer. He hails from Severn.
Bluefield Geoservices has opened a new ‘state-of-the-art’ facility in Bedlington, England with access to the Port of Blyth. The new location will be used both to service existing geotechnical equipment and as an engineering hub for future product development. The company also announced the hiring of Patrick O’Donnell to the position of business development lead.
Wood Mackenzie has hired Elise Sommer as Specialist Events·in Calgary. She was formerly community development manager with PPDM.
Deaths
The Object Management Group reports the death of Brad Kizzort (Chief Technologist at Peraton), following a 14 month battle with brain cancer. He was a longtime Co-Chair of the Space Domain Task Force.
Renowned data modeler Matthew West, OBE, director of Information Junction, has died. West joined Shell in 1978 and worked in information management and data modelling. He was a key technical contributor to ISO 15926 – ‘Lifecycle integration of process plant data including oil and gas production facilities’ and later a trustee and authoritative contributor to the Ontolog Forum. West was also a technical lead on the UK Digital Twin program.
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