PEOPLE

KrisEnergy Ltd. CEO Keith Cameron has retired. Jeffery S. Macdonald, a nonexecutive independent director of the company, will take over as interim CEO until a successor is appointed. Cameron will continue as an adviser to Macdonald, who will become an executive director.

Santos CFO Andrew Seaton will retire from the company by year-end 2016 following more than 11 years of service. Santos has commenced a search to identify a successor.

Comark appointed Parag Shah CTO.

Tethys Petroleum Ltd. named Alexander Skripka chief commercial officer.

Barrick Gold Corp. appointed Daniel Oh senior vice president, investor engagement and governance.

Fike promoted David Kemp to executive vice president of global sales and marketing.

Alexander Astanin has been appointed director general of Gazprom Transgaz Makhachkala.

ZTR Control Systems selected Paul Wilson as director of commercial development for the Industrial IoT Division.

Aquatic Engineering & Construction Ltd, an Acteon company, appointed Allan McKenzie director of global operations based in Aberdeen.

David E. Youngblood has been selected as the special projects/marketing director for WellBenders Directional Services LLC.

Tom Broom joins Danos as executive account manager for the company’s projects with Shell.

FOCUS strengthened its environmental team with the addition of Ciara McGarry and Gavan Ward following its acquisition of Trilogy Environmental Solutions. McGarry joins as principal environmental consultant, and Ward joins as environmental business development manager.

The Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association named Josh Frydenberg Minister for the Environment and Energy and appointed Senator Matt Canavan Minister for Resources and Northern Australia.

The Wm. Powell Co. appointed Cory Foster to its sales team as regional manager, Southwest.

The University of Houston (UH) has recruited three renowned researchers working in the energy field as part of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s Governor University Research Initiative. The new hires at UH include Andrea Prosperetti, distinguished professor of mechanical engineering in the Cullen College of Engineering; John Suppe, distinguished professor of earth and atmospheric sciences in the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics; and Ganesh Thakur, distinguished professor of petroleum engineering in the Cullen College of Engineering.

Gazprom elected Viktor Zubov as chairman of the board of directors. Alexey Miller, chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, was named as deputy chairman of the board of directors.

Energy Software Intelligence Analytics appointed Douglas Montgomery nonexecutive director.

Jim Skidmore has joined the Natural Gas Training Council board of directors.

Occidental Petroleum Corp. elected Jack B. Moore to its board of directors.

Altai Resources Inc. selected Niyazi Kacira, Didier Pomerleau, Mehmet F. Taner, Jeffrey S. Ackert and Raymond Savoie as directors of the company.

Beach Energy Ltd. appointed Ryan Stokes nonexecutive director, and John Butler has resigned as a director.

COMPANIES

Amplus Energy has concluded a multimillion-pound deal to buy Andrews Survey from the administrators of the Harkand Group. It is the second time that the Amplus Energy managing director, Ian Herd, has acquired Andrews Survey. Herd initially purchased the survey company in 2007 when he ran Integrated Subsea Services (ISS). ISS and Andrews worked together for five years prior to both companies being sold to the Harkand Group in 2012.

N-Sea has opened a new office in Dubai. Operations were scheduled to commence in August.

Restrata’s HSE arm has formed a strategic partnership with Shetland Facilities Management (FM) to further expand its HR response service to companies operating in the Northern North Sea. Restrata will deliver an HR response facility in the West of Shetland in addition to its existing services in the Southern North Sea and Liverpool Bay area. Shetland FM will work alongside Restrata to mobilize an HR responder in the event of an incident to look after the welfare of people who may have been evacuated to the islands.

Blackhawk Specialty Tools LLC has acquired the surge reduction business line of Allamon Tool Co. and its related intellectual property.

Emerson moved its service center in Pasadena, Texas, into a larger facility to expand its local manufacturing and assembly capabilities.

Tenaris opened its first service center in Thailand. Tenaris invested in the service center to serve Chevron, which has extensive operations in Thailand.

The International Council on Systems Engineering has formed the Oil and Gas Working Group to develop processes, tools and competencies to advance systems engineering thinking and ways of working in the oil and gas industry. It will be co-chaired by experts from Shell and GE Oil and Gas.

Unique Group, through its subsidiary Unique Maritime Group (SEA) PTE Ltd., completed the acquisition of Oceanvision PTE Ltd. and Oceanvision Equipment Services PTE Ltd.

Columbia Pipeline Partners LP’s general partner became an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Trans- Canada Corp. As a result, the partnership is effectively managed by TransCanada.

Port Cameron and HBW Resources have joined forces to commercialize a new private deepwater staging port in the Gulf of Mexico. Construction on the $1.5 billion project is set to commence in November.