Archive for the ‘Other Personnel News’ Category

Tom Wheeler has been named director of regulation at the UK’s Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), effective Mar. 1, following the retirement of Simon Toole.

The Danish business unit of Maersk Oil, a wholly owned subsidiary of AP Moller-Maersk AS of Copenhagen, expects to reduce up to 160 positions over the coming months in an effort to simplify the organization.

ExxonMobil Corp. and Rex W. Tillerson, its former chief executive officer and US President-elect Donald J. Trump’s current nominee for secretary of state, have reached an agreement to shed financial ties and remove possible conflicts of interest should he be confirmed for the government post.

Interest in US oil jobs has revived in Wyoming and North Dakota more strongly than in Texas, according a researcher at the job board Indeed.

The irony of rising wages in a slumping industry provides three insights into the Canadian oil and gas industry’s effort to regain profitability, according to Todd Hirsch, chief economist of ATB Financial in Calgary.

Chief executives of large companies value technology over people, suggests a study by Korn Ferry.

The continuation of a global industry slump that began in mid-2014 has resulted in more than two-thirds of UK oil and gas industry employers shedding staff over the past year, including operators by 15% and contractors by 7%, according to the UK’s 25th Oil and Gas survey.