People

Sigma Cubed Inc. appointed Mauricio Arbodela as executive vice president of operations.

Pinnergy promoted Lance Cauthen to vice president of operations for drilling services and Andy Snow to vice president of drilling.

Dan Oakley became sales director at BMT Reliability Consultants, a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd.

Rose Petroleum tapped John Blair as director of oil and gas and CEO of the firm’s U.S. business. The company also added to its U.S. technical team with the appointment of Wade Pollard as vice president of land and Ty Watson as vice president of operations.

Circulation Solutions LLC promoted Zach Grigor to vice president of business development and Mark Laurent to vice president of operations.

BP named David Lawler CEO of its U.S. Lower 48 Onshore business.

Baker Hughes Inc. made Kimberly A. Ross senior vice president and CFO.

Vikoma International Ltd. appointed Karen Lucas as its new general manager and director.

Stochastic Simulation has chosen Leo Mullins as its new managing director.

James Adam Thadchanamoorthy has been appointed to the board of Leni Gas & Oil Plc as finance director.

AziPac selected Frank Inouye to be managing director.

Chet Akiri has taken on the roles of senior vice president and chief corporate development, new ventures and strategy officer for Bristow Group.

Paul Hopkins has become principal engineer for 2H Offshore, an Acteon company.

Chesapeake Energy named Brad Sylvester vice president of investor relations and communications.

Integrated Environmental Technologies Ltd. hired Bradley W. Rockman as president and general manager of the company’s newly established oil and gas division.

Geir Egil Olsen has been appointed by Competentia as CEO of the group.

Decom North Sea tapped Karen Seath as general manager.

Wild Well Control Inc. named Wayne Stennes managing director and Christian Haustead area manager for the Asia-Pacific region.

Rocky L. Duckworth joined Glori Energy’s board of directors.

Gary T. Clark has taken on the role of vice president of investor relations for Apache Corp.

Wood Group Intetech has appointed Colin Smith to lead the expansion of its operations across the Americas.

Michael Oxman became partner in the Houston office of Acorn International.

The Aberdeen branch of the Society of Petroleum Engineers selected Ross Lowdon as its new chairman.

David Styles became a lead consultant in Brisbane, Australia, for NES Global Talent to grow its subsurface business.

Christopher Salinas joined Alloy Metals and Tubes International as senior outside sales representative.

Headwave Inc. named Dan Piette to the board of directors as a strategic adviser.

Aminex Plc has appointed Tom Mackay as a nonexecutive director of the company.

Great Western Oil & Gas Co. LLC selected Bob Heinemann as chairman of its board of directors.

Nautronix chose Thomas McCudden to be global sales manager for NASNet.

Companies

InterMoor, an Acteon company, has opened a major storage, maintenance and inspection facility in Aberdeen, U.K. The new base is on a 3-acre site with a warehouse, 20 permanent onsite staff and a large mooring inventory and will support InterMoor’s global mooring operations with a focus on Europe, Africa and Asia. The new facility will enable storage and maintenance of InterMoor and client equipment and is designed for onsite inspection and testing of wire and anchors. Pulse Structural Monitoring Inc., another Acteon company, has opened a new, purpose-built facility in Katy, Texas, that will provide office, production and testing facilities. Staff at the new facility will be responsible for Pulse’s engineering, project management and testing operations in the U.S. and Canada.

Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, U.K., has launched a new center for smart data technologies, which aims to bring the benefits of analyzing and mining vast quantities of data to industry. The center will focus on big data analytics, particularly for the oil and gas sector. It is intended that the industry will secure huge efficiencies from the use of analytics to extract added value for processes such as increasing speed to first oil, enhancing production, improved asset maintenance and reliability, reducing risks in health and safety, and reducing costs.

Applus RTD will open a base in Straume, Bergen, Norway, to provide nondestructive testing (NDT) services in the region. The new office and test facility will provide in-house and onsite NDT; metallurgic field work; and a range of inspection services including rig, paint, derrick and hull inspection.