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Philip K. Asherman,
CB&I’s CEO, has been elected to the board of directors of the National Safety Council. CB&I is a charter member of the National Safety Council, and the two organizations have been partners for nearly 100 years.
Founded in 1913, the National Safety Council is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to save lives by preventing injuries and deaths at work, in homes and communities, and on the roads through leadership, research, education and advocacy.
The National Safety Council advances this mission by partnering with businesses, government agencies, elected officials and the public to make an impact where the most preventable injuries and deaths occur.
Virent has appointed
Edgar Steenwinkel as
the company’s vice president of research and development. Mr. Steenwinkel joins Virent from Albemarle, where he served as global business director for alterrnative fuels technologies. At
Albemarle, he led multiple global development and commercialization efforts for catalysts and other new products for bio-based transportation fuels. Steenwinkel has over 20 year of experience in manufacturing and building new global business groups.
Patricia Vega is the new
president and CEO of GE Oil and Gas for Latin America. She has 20 years of experience in the oil industry, including technical, operational and leadership positions in the US, Mexico, Colombia and Brazil. Based in Rio de Janeiro, she will be responsible for developing regional capabilities. Ms. Vega has a master’s degree in engineering management from Oklahoma State University and an MBA degree from the Thunderbird School of Global Management.
Chevron has named
Mary A. Francis corporate
secretary and chief governance officer, effective May 1, 2015. In her new role, Ms. Francis will counsel the board of directors and senior management of Chevron on corporate governance matters, manage the corporate governance department and serve on the Law Function Executive Committee. She succeeds Lydia I. Beebe, who is retiring from Chevron after 37 years with the company. Ms. Francis joined Chevron in 2002 as a trademark senior counsel. She was appointed to lead senior counsel in Chevron Shipping. In 2009, she was appointed general counsel of the Chevron Asia Pacific, Exploration and Production Co. She was appointed chief corporate counsel in 2012.
Golar LNG has appointed
Frank Joseph Chapman
to its board of directors. He will act as the company’s Chairman. Mr. Chapman has worked 40 years in the oil and gas industry culminating in a 12-year period as CEO of BG Group. Under his leadership, BG Group grew into an international integrated oil and gas major. Operating profits grew from some $50 million in 1996 to more than $8 billion in 2012. He is currently a non- executive director of Rolls-Royce and chairman of its safety and ethics committee. He was knighted in 2011 by the Queen of England.
Deutsche Bank has hired Kristina Kazarian as a director and lead research analyst covering the master limited partnerships (MLPs) and natural gas sectors within the bank’s markets division. She is based in New York and reports to Steve Pollard, head of research for the Americas. Ms. Kazarian joined Deutsche Bank after more than seven years at Fidelity Management and Research. During her tenure at Fidelity, she covered several energy verticals. Most recently, she was the senior analyst responsible for the MLP and midstream sector, which has become one of the largest sub-sectors in energy with over $700 billion market cap. Andatee China Marine
Fuel Service Corp. (AMCF), an independent operator engaged in the production, storage, distribution and trading of blended marine fuel oil for cargo and fishing vessels, as well as research and development of clean energy solutions in China, has appointed
Shao-Hua Chu as a new
independent director. Mr. Chu is chairman of the Chinese Petroleum Institute and is the board director for Taiwan Green Productivity Foundation and CTCI Foundation. Mr. Chu has over 40 years of management and operational experience in the petroleum industry. Until his retirement in 2012, he served as chairman and president of CPC Corp., a state-owned petroleum, natural gas and gasoline conglomerate in Taiwan. Mr. Chu started his career in the petroleum industry in early 1970s with CPC and advanced to various senior level management positions. Willbros Group has announced that Robert R. Harl, who joined Willbros in 2006 and has served as CEO of the company since January 2007, is retiring as CEO and director when his current employment agreement expires on January 2, 2015. John T. McNabb, II, non- executive chairman of the board, has been elected by the Willbros board of directors as executive chairman of the board on an interim basis, effective immediately. Additionally, the company announced that S. Miller
Williams has been elected as lead independent director.
The Willbros board of directors is continuing its search to identify a successor to Mr. Harl. It is anticipated that Mr. McNabb will step down as executive chairman of the board and continue to serve as a director, once a successor has been selected and is in place.
FGE has welcomed two new consultants to its Singapore office: Reza
Simchi and Tushar Bansal. Mr. Simchi joins
as a principal consultant, working within FGE’s oil and gas services. Mr. Bansal joins as a senior consultant, and will be leading FGE’s East of Suez Oil service. Mr. Simchi has a decade’s worth of experience working at Nexen, where he managed risk and quantitative analysis, along with commodity structuring and analytics. He has a PhD in mathematics from the University of Calgary, Canada. Mr. Bansal has experience in petroleum analytics from his former roles as an analysis manager with Koch Supply and Trading, a downstream oil consultant at Wood Mackenzie and an oil market analyst with Shell Trading. He has a bachelor’s degree from Nanyan Technological University, Singapore.
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