Offshore staff

HOUSTON — The board of directors of Acteon Group Ltd. has appointed Dr. Bernhard Bruggaier group chief executive, succeeding Dr. Carl Trowell.

Miros Group has appointed Marius Five Aarset CEO. He has joined Miros from ABB, succeeding Andreas Brekke, who is taking on the role of CEO at the joint-venture Miros Mocean.

Scana CEO Styrk Bekkenes has resigned, along with Chairman of the board Dag Schjerven and board members Rune Magnus Lundetræ and Marianne Lie, who at the same time informed the board that they resign from their positions with immediate effect. The Scana board has decided to appoint Oddbjørn Haukøy as interim CEO and said that it would start a recruitment process to identify a permanent replacement as CEO. 

The Energy Workforce & Technology Council CEO Leslie Beyer will step down in July. Effective immediately, current COO Molly Determan and Tim Tarpley, current senior vice president and counsel, are both elevated to the role of president with equal responsibility. Their joint leadership of the association, reporting to the board of directors, will begin upon Beyer’s departure in July. At the association's annual meeting in April, Brian Groody, vice president of OFS North America with Baker Hughes, and Daniel Hindes, vice president of Well Servicing with ClearWell Dynamics, are expected be elected to the positions of co-chairs, and Scott Livingston, president of Intervention & Stimulation Equipment with NOV Completion & Production Solutions, is expected be elected as vice chair.

Kellas Midstream has appointed Nathan Morgan CEO, starting in February. He will take over from Managing Director Andy Hessell, who will retire at the end of January after 35 years in the energy industry and eight years with Kellas. Morgan is joining from Total Energies where he has spent the last 17 years in a range of roles.

Quorum Software has selected Jan Manning as chief information officer. 

Baker Hughes has named Ganesh Ramaswamy executive vice president (EVP) of the Industrial & Energy Technology (IET) business segment, effective Jan. 16. With Ramaswamy’s appointment, Rod Christie, EVP of IET, will be moving to a strategic adviser role before departing the company in second-quarter 2023.

The United Arab Emirates has announced that Sultan al-Jaber, the head of state oil giant ADNOC, would act as president of the COP28 climate conference it is hosting this year.

The Department of the Interior (DOI) has named Elizabeth (Liz) Klein director of the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). Klein succeeds Amanda Lefton, who served as the first BOEM director in the US' Biden-Harris administration and announced her resignation, effective Jan. 19. Read more here. 

Michiel Soeting has accepted an invitation to join Serica Energy's board as a non-executive director, effective, Feb. 1.  In addition, under the terms of the agreement for Serica's acquisition of Tailwind Energy Investments Ltd., Mercuria Energy Group (the largest ultimate shareholder of Tailwind) has nominated two new nonexecutive directors, Guillaume Vermersch and Robert Lawson, who will join the board upon completion of the transaction and subject to due diligence. Vermersch is the group CFO and a group board member of Mercuria Energy Group.  After a 32-year career with bp, Lawson joined Mercuria in 2022 as executive vice president and a member of the board of Mercuria Energy Group.

01.13.2023