Offshore staff

HOUSTON — Petrobras has appointed Jean Paul Terra Prates director and CEO. Read more. 

Repsol Sinopec has named Luis Polo CEO. He replaces Nicolas Foucart who is leaving Repsol Sinopec to pursue an opportunity outside of the organization. Read more. 

Ecopetrol CEO Felipe Bayon will leave his post on March 31, following more than five years in the position. Bayon spent just over 20 years at bp before joining Ecopetrol in 2016 as executive vice president and COO.

Alan Quirke has joined HydraWell as COO.

Mark A. Nelson has been promoted to Chevron's vice chairman and executive vice president, Strategy, Policy & Development, effective Feb. 1, 2023. Read more. 

RenewableUK's Melanie Onn will step down as deputy chief executive from the end of March. 

Sushma Rawat, executive director-basin manager, Assam & Assam Arakan Basin and OSD – Exploration, has taken over the charge of ONGC director (exploration). She takes over the reins after earlier director (Exploration) Rajesh Kumar Srivastava superannuated on Dec. 31, 2022. Rawat is also on board of ONGC Tripura Power Co. Ltd.; she had been on the board of ONGC Petro Additions Ltd.

Oil & gas specialist Quanta is strengthening its engineering team with six new appointments: Paul Henderson takes up the role of lead process engineer, Chris Cowperthwaite joins as senior instrument engineer, Giuliano Chiminelli is the new lead planner, Alistair Price joins as a new construction engineer, Peter Butler has been appointed lead pipe stress engineer, and Jo Scheib will take up the role of project and logistics coordinator. 

Hallvard Norum has been appointed head of media and channels at Aker Solutions. 

The Capricorn Board’s priority has been to ensure that the shareholder votes on both the proposed NewMed combination and the Palliser requisitioned general meeting on board composition (the “Requisitioned GM”) can occur.  To best enable the process of Capricorn's board reconstitution, the following changes to the board have been collectively agreed:

• Nicoletta Giadrossi (chair), Simon Thomson (board director), Peter Kallos, Alison Wood and Luis Araujo have stepped down from the board with immediate effect on Jan. 24;
• Keith Lough remains on the board to ensure ongoing oversight of reporting obligations and other corporate governance requirements with the intention of stepping down from the board in advance of the Requisitioned GM; and
• James Smith remains on the board as CFO, with the intention of stepping down from his role as board director in advance of the Requisitioned GM.

IRENA’s global membership of 168 countries has appointed the incumbent director-general for a second term of four years. Francesco La Camera has served as director-general of IRENA since April 2019.

01.27.2023