C&J Energy Services Ltd. appointed current COO Don Gawick to the position of president and CEO.

AIRIS Wellsite Services named Brendan Ryan CEO.

Ahmed Saeed Al Calily has been appointed CEO of the energy platform of Mubadala, Abu Dhabi’s state-owned investment company.

Ricardo Darre will take the role of CEO of Argentina’s 51% stateowned YPF SA.

Alan Snider has been appointed president and COO at Laney Directional Drilling.

Henrik Lundin has been named COO of TAG Oil Ltd.

Beach Energy Ltd appointed Morné Engelbrecht CFO, effective Aug. 29.

Hoover Container Solutions appointed Joseph Levy senior vice president and CFO. Johan Wramsby has been appointed senior vice president and COO, and Arash Hassanian has been appointed senior vice president, global sales and marketing.

Tap Oil Ltd. appointed Chris Bath CFO and company secretary.

OleumTech Corp. named Brent McAdams vice president, OEM & Strategic Initiatives.

CNOOC Ltd. announced changes in directors and senior management. Yang Hua has been appointed CEO and redesignated executive director. He remains chairman of the company. Wu Guangqi has been redesignated nonexecutive director and has resigned as compliance officer. Yuan Guangyu has been appointed as president and executive director. Li Fanrong has resigned from his position as CEO, president and executive director. Chen Wei has been appointed as compliance officer and general counsel.

Stokes & Spiehler has promoted Blair LeBlanc, P.E., to vice president, offshore operations; Russ Bellard, P.E., to vice president, onshore operations; Tony Shell to vice president, sales and marketing; and Donnie Busscher to engineering manager.

InterMoor, an Acteon company, has named Cleiver Moulin managing director in Brazil.

AccessESP selected Ed Sheridan as its Asia-Pacific region manager.

Emco Wheaton Houston promoted Hector Ornelas to engineering supervisor.

Steve Adcock and Jeremy Wilkerson have joined Burns & McDonnell as senior project managers in the Houston region, and Kirsten Glesne and Chris McFarland were named senior project managers based in Denver.

ACE Winches appointed Chris Dixon hire and services director.

Four leading figures in the energy industry have been appointed as Energy Institute (EI) vice presidents. Malcolm Brinded CBE FREng FEI also took on the role of president elect. Brinded will succeed Jim Skea CBE FEI as EI president in 2017 for a two-year term. Dr. Bernie Bulkin FEI is joined by Vivienne Cox CBE, Steve Holliday FREng FEI and Ceri Powell FEI to take positions on the council.

Mike Hinson has been tasked with leading Parsley Energy Inc.’s newly established corporate development department, taking the role of vice president, corporate development.

Tom Williams, a former official of the U.S. Department of Energy, has been retained by HBW Resources LLC to help manage a new partnership with the Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America.

COMPANIES

The Oilfield Technology Group of Hexion Inc. announced the expansion of its resin-coated proppant manufacturing facility in Canada to provide a more efficient supply of proppants to fracturing service companies and operators in the oil and gas industry.

HTL, a provider of controlled bolting, flange working and portable machine solutions, has joined the Energy Industries Council.

Array Petroleum LLC, a privately held oil and gas producer based in New Orleans, has been formed by former executives of Whitney Oil & Gas LLC.

AEREON has acquired select assets of Abutec, including the Abutec brand, burner technology and Quad O Certified Enclosed Combustors used extensively across the U.S. shale basins.

Nelson Fastener Systems has been formed, creating a rebranded business unit that consists of six manufacturing entities: Nelson Stud Welding Inc., Ferry Cap & Set Screw, Specialty Bar Products, EBC Industries, Automatic SMP and Spiegelberg Manufacturing. They were formerly part of Doncasters Fastener Systems.

Solenis introduced a new Equipment Service Team. The group is made up of professionals specially trained to service Solenis-owned chemical feed equipment. The program was launched in North America in early 2016 and will begin rolling out in Europe, the Middle East and Africa in mid-summer 2016. Full global implementation is expected by the end of the year.

Abrado Wellbore Services has acquired the specialty tool product lines of Deltide Energy Services LLC for an undisclosed amount. As part of the deal, Abrado takes full ownership of Deltide’s proprietary Medusa section milling technology, Rattler suite of downhole magnets, Mud Viper surface ditch magnets and suite of fishing tool services.

The Underwater Centre has linked up with Bibby Offshore to provide ROV apprentices with the opportunity to gain practical hands-on experience unavailable anywhere else in the world. The apprentices, who are employed by Bibby Offshore but are too young to go offshore, will benefit from operational experience in the field with live ROVs and will undertake a wide variety of tasks including the mobilization/ demobilization of the work class ROV.

W Energy Partners has been formed as an E&P company seeking to acquire nonoperating working interest in acreage and production in the Williston Basin.