Helge Lund, the former CEO of energy companies Statoil ASA (NYSE: STO) and BG, has become a director of oil services firm Schlumberger Ltd. (NYSE: SLB), the company said on June 9.
Schlumberger denied a Wall Street Journal report that Lund had been appointed the chief executive of the company.
"Paal Kibsgaard remains the chief executive," a spokeswoman for the company told Reuters, adding that Lund had been appointed as a director.
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