Panama's Arsenio Dominguez Elected as IMO Secretary General
time as the shipping industry grapples with challenges including pressures to speed up decarbonization.A trained naval architect, Dominguez has served as director of the IMO's marine environment division for just over six years and was previously Panama's IMO representative, according to his LinkedIn biography. He has also served with Panama's maritime authority.Some questioned whether Panama, which is one of the world's leading shipping registries, should be leading the IMO.Panama's maritime authority said in June it would continue to clean up its fleet to prevent substandard Panama-flag
US Shipyards: Always on the Job Hunt
personnel in a number of trades positions.Bollinger Shipyards in Louisiana has both professional/staff administration and production trades/crafts openings listed online. Metal Shark, which on its site currently shows job availabilities at its Jaeanerette and Franklin, La. facilities, recently took to LinkedIn to announce the open positions. Colonna’s Shipyard in Norfolk, Va. has 87 job openings on LinkedIn, and Portland, Ore.-based Vigor has 126.Tug Pennsylvania was recently constructed at Great Lakes Shipyard for The Great Lakes Towing Company. (Photo: Scott Tish / Great Lakes Shipyard)Attracting
Report: Mitsui Hires Crude Oil and Condensate Traders
Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co , has hired two traders to trade crude oil and condensate, two sources with knowledge of the matter said on Friday.Wei Xiyu, previously a crude oil trader and charterer at Petrowin Resources, will join the company in November, according to the sources and Wei's LinkedIn profile.Andy Ang, formerly a crude trader with Hengyi Industries International Pte responsible for sourcing feedstock for Hengyi's Brunei refinery, will join Mitsui in January next year, the sources said.Mitsui did not immediately respond to a request seeking comment. Ang declined to comment
'This could be the one that gets me,' Says Oilfield Service Veteran
ties, moving to Amazon.com, where he accepted an entry-level manager's job in light of the 14.7% April U.S. unemployment rate.The oil industry could struggle to re-hire experienced managers if other sectors rebound first, said Ron Ness, president of the North Dakota Petroleum Council.Career website LinkedIn.com has dozens of goodbye posts from workers with 15- to 30-year careers in the oilfield, many with top firms Schlumberger, Halliburton, and Baker Hughes Inc. More than two dozen tributes appeared recently from mid- to senior-level Schlumberger executives."I'm joining the crowd posting
Shell's New Energies Boss Gainsborough to Step Down
Energies Mark Gainsborough announced on Thursday he was stepping down after setting up and leading a rapid expansion of the company's renewables and low-carbon business over the past four years.Gainsborough will be replaced by Elisabeth Brinton on April 1, the 39-year Shell veteran said in a post on LinkedIn. He will leave the company at the end of the year.Brinton, a Silicon Valley and utility industry veteran, joined Shell in 2018 and is currently vice president for strategy at the New Energies, according to her LinkedIn page.A Shell spokeswoman confirmed the moves. (Reporting by Ron Bousso;
Schlumberger CFO Ayat to Retire Soon
on Monday.Biguet previously held positions as Schlumberger's treasurer and as controller of operations, according to its financial filings. He has worked at Schlumberger since 1995 with roles in Venezuela, Canada and France before taking on his current position in December, 2017, according to his LinkedIn profile.Biguet "is very skilled in managing the organization," said one person familiar with proposed changes. "Now, he needs to manage the Street."Ayat started at Schlumberger in 1982, serving in several roles, including treasurer before becoming CFO in 2007. As of January 2018
Trafigura Hires ex-Noble Crude Oil Trader
Trading house Trafigura has hired Dan Stirk, formerly a North Sea crude oil trader at commodity trader Noble Group, to join its crude desk, according to trading sources. Stirk started his new job this week, one of the sources said. He served as North Sea trader at Noble starting in July 2016, according to his LinkedIn page. The move comes after Chinese trader Unipec hired three former Noble employees to join its middle distillates desk in London. Reporting by Ahmad Ghaddar
Gunvor Hires BP's Former Top US Trader
employees in offices in Houston and Stamford. Garza was at BP for 24 years, including managing BP's crude oil trading in the United States, Canada and Latin America between 2006-2014. That included all of BP's exposure to the global WTI book - at the time BP's largest crude book, according to Garza's LinkedIn page. Garza says on his page his team was marketing at the time 500,000 barrels of equity crude oil per day and generating record trading with 25 percent growth per year. After leaving BP in 2014, Garza served as vice president for crude oil supply and trading at Texan-based refiner Tesoro
McCabe Named President at Nautical Institute
the strategic direction of the Institute into the next decade. We need your energy, experience and guidance to determine the priorities and in delivering the plan.” He commented on new opportunities opening up for the Institute to increase its reach and extend promotion of best practice. The LinkedIn Group has nearly 10,000 members (of which 25% are Institute members); funding for hardcopy print and distribution for a year of The Navigator to every SOLAS ship, nautical college and seafarer centre – again, members and branches can help in getting this publication to those it is aimed at
