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U.S. Offshore Vessel Owner Harvey Gulf Welcomes Philip Luongo as Executive VP

Kings Point, Luongo upgraded his Unlimited U.S. Coast Guard License by sailing on deep sea vessels and operating production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. Luongo then transitioned shore side where he worked for BP for nine years, holding various leadership roles supporting the U.S Gulf of Mexico, Angola, Trinidad, Canada, and Brazil. Luongo joins Harvey Gulf as Executive Vice President of Sales, focusing on Oil & Gas, Subsea, Offshore Wind, Government and Military Contracts, and Space Exploration. Luongo is the President of the Kings Point Alumni Foundation in Houston, TX, and a Lieutenant

Al Cook, executive vice president for Exploration and Production International.
(Photo Ole Jørgen Bratland - Equinor ASA)  - photo cropped

Equinor's EVP Exploration and Production International to Resign

transition,” says Al Cook.Cook joined Equinor in 2016. From May 2018 until January 2021, he held the position of executive vice president for Global Strategy & Business Development. Befrore this he was senior vice president in Development & Production International overseeing operations in Angola, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Libya, Nigeria, Russia and Venezuela

Shell Nabs Sinochem Crude Trader for Singapore Desk

million a day in new crude flowing into China, which many expect to grow even further.  Sources in London said Qingpu's connections and experience in China drove Shell to poach him. Sources in Singapore said his knowledge of West African oil was also a key qualification. China's imports from Angola surged about 28 percent in August from a year ago to about 983,500 barrels per day (bpd), according to official customs data, while its Angolan imports for the first eight months of 2017 hit 1.05 million bpd, a gain of 16.6 percent from the same period last year. Reporting By Libby George in

Mei Ling Chan (Photo: Global Maritime)

Global Maritime Makes Two Hires in Asia Pacific

Business School and believes that employee involvement and participation help drive company culture and human behaviors and lead to the success of HSE.   Recent Singapore projects include a Marine Warranty Services project in the Keppel Shipyard on an FPSO which will be transported offshore Angola; mooring analysis for tender barges in the Gulf of Thailand; marine inspection and audit services; and technical advisory and due diligence services for a major LNG Floating Storage Unit (FSU)

IBIA: Bunker Market Opportunities in Africa

ocean economy, and ensuring Customs and port dues weren’t discouraging growth. Increased regulation in West Africa has certainly limited market growth, with restrictive licencing resulting in the anchorage at Pointe Noire, Congo being dominated by one supplier, while a customs crackdown in Angola has halted sales of competitively priced marine gas oil. The West African market is also suffering from a decline in the offshore and seismic vessel market as a result of the low oil price. Piracy, although in decline is still a serious consideration in the region, and fuel can be expensive, delivery

Ghana Climbing Oil Producer Ranks

biggest oil producer in sub-Saharan Africa by 2020 once two new offshore fields come on stream, to push total output above 240,000 barrels per day (bpd), pan-African bank Ecobank said on Wednesday. The West African country produces around 103,000 bpd ranking it ninth, far behind leaders Nigeria and Angola, which produce an average of 1.867 million bpd and 1.754 million bpd respectively, said the Ecobank research report.   Ghana's Tweneboa-Enyenra-Ntomme (TEN) field came on stream in August and is expected to increase output to a peak of around 80,000 bpd.   The Jubilee field, which started

Photo: Chevron

The 10 Highest Paying Oil & Gas Contract Jobs

country on the list that ranks just below the returning leader. The list was compiled by analyzing Swift's 250 contract positions in the oil and gas industry in 30 locations across the globe, for a total of 7,500 total jobs. Countries that are represented for the first time include Nigeria, Venezuela and Angola. No jobs in the U.S. cracked the list of highest paying this year. The complete list of the "Ten Highest Paid Contract Jobs in Oil and Gas" is as follows:     Completion Manager in Australia: up to $3,075 per day     Drilling Manager in Australia:

Cadets at the Maritime Training Center

Stena, Sonangol Launch Training Facility in Angola

The Centro De Formação Maritima De Angola (CFMA) was officially launched on August 27 by top management from Sonangol, the Angolan public sector energy company and the Stena Group of Sweden. The CFMA is a world class maritime training facility, the first of its kind in Angola and the most modern maritime campus in Africa. The campus will be an internationally recognized center of excellence, linked through Stena to leading maritime institutions in Europe and Asia in order to deliver marine education, training and certification to Angolan seafarers in order to satisfy Sonangol’s

Maersk Drilling Aims to Scale Up Personnel Diversity

is an important factor, as Maersk Drilling plans to double its workforce from 3,000 to 6,000 between 2013 and 2018. According to Bentsen, “a balanced nationality and gender distribution globally secures different ways of thinking, which leads to better business results”. A mix of talent in Angola Currently, a total of 20 different nationalities are working together on Mærsk Deliverer in Angola. “We always make sure to create teams that contain a broad mix of nationalities to make sure that all fragments are diverse”, explains Lovette Fernandez with the HR team in Angola

Maersk Drilling Rig Team Train Local Talent

Maersk Drilling says that its 'Mærsk Deliverer' rig team has initiated seven local acceleration programmes in Angola. The goal is to train and develop local talent to take on increasingly challenging positions on-board the rig. To do so, experienced employees play a key role. In 2014, the rig team on Mærsk Deliverer initiated seven local acceleration programmes as part of a localisation plan focusing on employing, training and educating local talent in Angola. The experienced offshore employees have worked closely with the rig team to get the local acceleration programmes up and

Angola LNG Trade Arm Slashes Headcount

The trading arm of Angola's liquefied natural gas (LNG) export project is making deep cuts to the headcount at its London headquarters after shutting its liquefaction plant until mid-2015, two sources with knowledge of the matter said. Angola LNG Marketing has put up to six trading, technical and scheduling staff on leave ahead of a formal severing of ties by the end of the month, the sources said. Angola LNG Marketing declined to comment. The LNG export plant was shut down in April following a major pipe rupture. Exports are expected to resume in the middle of next year following wide-ranging

Maersk Drilling Names First Female Director

  Maersk Drilling has appointed Moira Ming Ying Li as unit director for the Maersk Deliverer rig working for Chevron offshore Angola. She will assume her new role August 15, 2014. Moira is the first female unit director in Maersk Drilling. “We are very pleased to appoint Moira Ming Ying Li as unit director on the Maersk Deliverer. Moira has proven herself time and time again through various positions in Maersk Drilling, latest as Assistant Rig Manager for Drillship 4, and I am confident that she will strive in her new role with the rest of the team on Maersk Deliverer,” says

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