HB Rentals has named Tim Murphy as technical sales and marketing manager.

MODEC has appointed Norio Nagata as director and Kiyoshi Nakamura and Akira Nishihata as corporate auditors.

Clough has appointed Mark Goodwin as group manager of corporate finance and former John Whitehand as company secretary.

Xodus Group has appointed Matt Kirk to lead the company’s subsea operational support and integrity management services and Frank Smith as head of detailed design within its subsea division.

Knight Oil Tools has promoted Chris Rosson to business development manager and Pat Clark to business manager.

Husky Energy President and CEO John C.S. Lau has elected to retire.

Jon Khachaturian, founder and president of Versabar, is among the 68 new members and nine foreign associates recently elected to the National Academy of Engineering.

Statoil has awarded Aker Solutions a $70.9-million engineering, procurement, and construction contract for the Gudrun field jacket in the Norwegian North

Apache North Sea has awarded EnerMech a $1.56 million contract to supply rigging lofts and portable lifting equipment to the four Forties field platforms, Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, and Echo.

Oldham joins Oil & Gas UK board.

Statoil has increased its working interest in the Chevron-operated St. Malo development in the US Gulf of Mexico to 21.5% by exercising its preferential rights on a proposed sale of Devon's share in the project.

Helix Energy Solutions intends to divest its entire oil and gas business to become a pure contracting services company, with a focus on deepwater well intervention and subsea construction.

Challenger Minerals North Sea (CMNS) has signed an agreement to farm into the Xcite Energy-operated Bentley heavy oil field in the UK sector.