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Carl-Antoine Saverys will take over as CEO of Exmar from January 1, 2024 (Photo: Exmar)

Exmar Announces Leadership Change

wheel to Carl-Antoine. It's a positive move for all stakeholders, our employees especially, and they have my full cooperation."Carl-Antoine Saverys said, “With the upcoming global challenges, Exmar is perfectly positioned to play a major role in the further optimization of the energy value chain. The team will continue to grow Exmar as a key player in the transportation and transformation of gasses through state-of-the-art assets.”Francis Mottrie will support the transition as COO from January 1, 2024. (Photo: Exmar

Philippe Kavafyan (Photo: Venterra Group)

Venterra Appoints Kavafyan as CEO

will scale up through strategic partnerships. Developers will benefit from a set of capabilities and services they can rely on, with the strength to unlock additional capacity. The market’s volume growth is global and sits against a backdrop of fast changing technology putting the entire value chain under pressure, from engineering to supply chain and logistics. Venterra is investing to help developers reach their own demanding targets. I look forward to working closely with our customers, the Venterra team and our member companies to deliver on this compelling vision."Jewkes said, "

Tina Revsbech (Photo: Maersk Tankers)

Maersk Tankers Names Revsbech CEO

joins Maersk Tankers at a crucial time in shipping with energy security disrupted and global energy markets increasingly fragmented due to geopolitical developments. At the same time, the industry is facing the beginning of a green transition with implications and opportunities for many parts of the value chain. I am confident that Tina and her colleagues will continue to provide valued and impactful solutions to our customers, pool partners, and society during these uncertain times."Uggla continued, "On behalf of Maersk Tankers, I sincerely thank Christian for his many contributions to the

Huib ten Cate, Territory Manager Benelux and Germany, with Simon Edsall, Vice President Northern Europe and Americas (Photo: Wilhelmsen)

Wilhelmsen Completes Vopak Agencies Acquisition

transaction, Wilhelmsen has also acquired 50% of diize, a Vopak developed digital software company aimed at the future of port orchestration.“This opportunity came at a perfect time for us with our ambitious growth strategy both targeting new segments as well as expansion of services in the port value chain. Now begins the work to bring the knowledge and experience from Vopak Agencies and diize into Wilhelmsen as well as to our global network of customers,” said Neal de Roche, President, Wilhelmsen Port Services

Meaghan Atkinson (Photo: Crowley)

Crowley Names Atkinson VP of Sustainability

Crowley has promoted Meaghan Atkinson to be Vice President of Sustainability. In her new role, Atkinson will lead Crowley’s sustainability journey, and drive action to decarbonize across the company’s operations and value chain to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. As vice president, she will lead the company’s efforts to build partnerships across its industries and value chain to fulfill Crowley’s sustainability commitments.In her prior role as Director of Sustainability and Regulatory Affairs, Atkinson spearheaded the creation of the company’s first greenhouse gas

Image courtesy Port of Rotterdam Authority/ © Ernst Bode

CEO in Focus: Allard Castelein, Port of Rotterdam

a very active and proactive business developer, entrepreneur, investor, and co-creator of the various solutions in energy transition [as well as] the digital domain.”With the destination clear, the port embraced and embarked upon several avenues and initiatives “to digitize the logistics value chain and to create a digital twin of this port; to truly become the smartest port there is, with an IoT premise and base and a continuous drive towards optimization and cutting out waste.” And in terms of ‘waste’, Castelein refers not only to cutting out waste in time, money and energy

Bob Karl (Photo: Crowley)

Crowley Names Karl SVP and GM of Wind Services

served as chief operating officer of GE Renewable Energy Global Services since 2018. In that role, Karl spearheaded the operations, inventory, learning and productivity teams for the Global Services organization across the Renewable Energy businesses, including optimizing GE Renewable Energy’s value chain.“Bob Karl is an established leader in the international renewable energy sector, and his experience in collaboratively leading teams in both mature and emerging organizations will add significant value and growth at Crowley,” said Chief Operating Officer Ray Fitzgerald. “His

EeLain Ong (Photo: TT Club)

Ong Takes Over as TT Club CFO

CFO Julian Chowdhury in his position for the intervening months prior to his retirement.As CFO of the specialist mutual insurer, Ong’s challenges will be to achieve business plan profit targets via operational efficiencies focused on simplifying and automating processes along the insurance value chain.Charles Fenton, CEO of TT Club, said, “TT is fortunate to have in EeLain someone of vast and varied experience so suited to the Club’s structure and nature of its business. Over her 27 year career she has held leadership positions within finance, treasury and tax at re/insurance companies

Molly Reyes (Photo: CSignum)

CSignum Promotes Reyes to Chief Commercial Officer

. In this role, she will be responsible for the commercial strategy and development of the year-old company’s business through marketing, sales, business development and customer service activities to drive business growth and market share. Reyes has over 20 years of experience across the energy value chain combining commercial strategy with technical research to create innovative solutions for energy providers, ocean observers, financial institutions, and technology leaders. She will continue to report to CSignum CEO Chris Brooks and work out of Houston, Texas.Reyes is an offshore expert with over

Golar Taps Karl Fredrik Staubo as CEO

, with the rest of Golar's management and board, we are convinced that the company has a strong management team ready to streamline Golar's existing operations and also explore the opportunities we see in the LNG market today. Through the company's strong strategic positions through the LNG value chain, including upstream, midstream, and downstream, Golar is well positioned to take an active part in the ongoing energy transition with the target to deliver cheaper and cleaner energy."

Marianne Hagen - Photo: Fotograf Sturlason/UD - via Aker Solutions

Aker Solutions Names EVP for Sustainability

this will count for two thirds of the revenue," Aker Solutions said."We have already established a strong offering to the market for sustainable energy production, such as offshore wind power and projects for carbon capture. It will be equally important that our own business and that our value chain with thousands of suppliers are also sustainable. Our objective is to reduce CO2 emissions from our own operations by 50 percent by 2030, based on our 2019 emissions. This is essential not only for Aker Solutions, but also to our customers," said Kjetel Digre, chief executive officer of Aker

Adonis Pouroulis - Chariot Oil and Gas acting CEO / Image Credit: Chariot Oil and Gas

Chariot Oil & Gas CEO Steps Down. Acting CEO Named

made to Chariot over the past 9 years and we wish him all the best with his future endeavors.""We remain fully committed to further progressing our Lixus asset, as we believe the license contains considerable upside potential and is attractive to a wide range of businesses across the energy value chain.  The new team in place have considerable entrepreneurial experience and the required in house skill sets to pursue other opportunities available to us.  We will keep our stakeholders appraised on developments as appropriate and we look forward to updating the market in due course."

Image courtesy of Vestas Wind Systems AS

Danish Offshore Wind Turbine Builder Lays Off 400 Workers

is never good, but our responsibility is to strengthen Vestas for long-term success. By making Vestas and wind energy more competitive, we want to provide the solutions that make the energy transition an integral part of rebuilding societies and economies, and ultimately creating jobs across the value chain”.Vestas said the layoffs were expected to affect most Vestas locations in Denmark with the majority in Aarhus and Lem, due to technology projects driven from those locations being stopped.Vestas’ temporary facility in Viborg, which was established to serve specific projects from MHI

Kenneth Vareide (Photo: DNV GL)

DNV GL Appoints New Digital Solutions CEO

leverage the possibilities of the fourth industrial revolution.”Oil & gas executives surveyed in DNV GL’s Industry Outlook highlighted digitalization as the leading R&D priority, although a lack of relevant skills was identified as the biggest barrier. Their peers in the energy value chain told a similar story in Digitalization and the future of energy, with 91% of companies saying that further digital skills training was needed.“Our long commitment to creating value from digital technology means that we are able to combine deep domain and digital knowledge.  As a company

Autonomous shipping company Massterly has appointed Tom Eystø (left) as managing director and Per Brinchmann as chair of the company's board (Photo: Massterly)

Autonomous Shipping Firm Massterly Appoints Top Brass

, Massterly, has appointed Tom Eystø as managing director and Per Brinchmann as chair of the Massterly board.Announced on April 3, 2018 as a new joint venture company between Norwegian ship owner Wilhelmsen and systems and solutions provider KONGSBERG, Massterly sets out to offer a complete value chain for autonomous vessels, from design and development, to control systems, logistics services and vessel operations.“Autonomy will revolutionize shipping and the industry will need technical and operational support from expert organizations such as Massterly if the full economic and environmental

The K-Sim Navigation class A ship’s bridge simulator installed at Simwave is now fully operational 24/7 (Photo: Kongsberg)

Simwave Maritime Center of Excellence Opens

. “We have a team of educational and maritime specialists from around the world on hand and this dream team, our partnership with Kongsberg Digital and our long-term vision on how to improve the learning experience in the maritime sector enables us to bring new customer benefits to the training value chain.” Kongsberg Digital’s full simulator scope of supply for the Simwave facility covers multiple full-mission and part-task simulators for ship’s bridge and engine room operations, all based on the latest simulator technology platforms. The contract also includes a five year

Ben Oudman (Photo: DNV GL)

DNV GL Taps Oudman as Regional Manager

customers the foresight and support they need to succeed in the years ahead.” Elaborating on the differences in the energy markets which now lie under his new responsibilities in DNV GL, Ben Oudman said: ‘’While Western Europe is rapidly embracing the energy transition across the value chain, the focus in Eastern Europe and in Russia is on gas as the fuel of choice, with security of supply a key concern.  There we see significant investments in transnational pipeline projects such as TANAP and TAP.  In the East Mediterranean, recent developments off the coast of Egypt, Cyprus

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