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Precision Drilling Adds New Director

Precision Drilling Adds New Director

Calgary’s Precision Drilling Corporation (ticker: PDS) has added Michael R. Culbert to its board of directors.

Culbert is vice chairman of Progress Energy Canada Ltd, a wholly owned Canadian subsidiary of PETRONAS that is focused on the development of unconventional …

December 1, 2017 - 3:59 pm Canada, Closing Bell Story‎, Oilfield Services, People
Tesla Puts Price Tag for Electric Semi-Truck at $150,000 – $200,000

Tesla Puts Price Tag for Electric Semi-Truck at $150,000 – $200,000

Tesla says pulling an 80,000 pound load, its tractor/trailer will do 0-to-60 in 20 seconds, climb 5% grades at 65 mph; first trucks targeting availability in 2019

Tesla has posted the price point for its coming semi-truck at $150,000 for …

November 30, 2017 - 2:58 pm Closing Bell Story‎, People, Transportation
Unit Corporation Appoints New CFO

Unit Corporation Appoints New CFO

Unit Corporation (ticker: UNT) has named Les Austin SVP and chief financial officer of the company, effective immediately.

The position was held previously by David T. Merrill, who was promoted to chief operating officer in August 2017.

Austin, aged 51, …

November 28, 2017 - 5:39 pm Closing Bell Story‎, People
WPX Energy Adds Upside in the Permian  

WPX Energy Adds Upside in the Permian  

An exclusive Oil & Gas 360® interview with WPX Energy VP of Midstream and Marketing Greg Horne, as WPX and Howard Energy Partners step on the accelerator

In the early days of summer, WPX Energy (ticker: WPX) and privately held …

Whiting Petroleum Names Former Anadarko Onshore E&P Leader Brad Holly as CEO to Replace Retiring CEO James Volker

Whiting Petroleum Names Former Anadarko Onshore E&P Leader Brad Holly as CEO to Replace Retiring CEO James Volker

James Volker will serve as Whiting’s executive chairman through year end

Beginning next Wednesday former Anadarko EVP U.S. Onshore E&P Bradley Holly will take the reins of Whiting Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: WLL), replacing outgoing Chairman, President and CEO James Volker …

Wm. Blair Appoints $74 Billion Global Asset Management Chief

Wm. Blair Appoints $74 Billion Global Asset Management Chief

William Blair appointed Stephanie Braming, CFA to lead the William Blair Investment Management (WBIM) business. Braming will join the firm’s executive committee and will be based in Chicago. In this post, Braming will be responsible for the strategic direction of …

October 23, 2017 - 7:25 am Closing Bell Story‎, Energy News, People
Blackbird Energy Appoints Chief Financial Officer

Blackbird Energy Appoints Chief Financial Officer

Blackbird Energy Inc. (ticker: BBI) has appointed Karen Minton as its CFO effective immediately, the company announced yesterday.

In a press release Blackbird outlined Minton’s almost two decades of experience in senior financial roles in oil and gas and alternative …

BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg to Retire, Board Launches Successor Search

BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg to Retire, Board Launches Successor Search

Guided BP through aftermath of Deepwater Horizon disaster

BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg has informed the company’s board of directors of his intention to retire as chairman. The company said Svanberg will chair the annual general meeting to be held in …

Total Energy Services Announces New Director

Total Energy Services Announces New Director

Calgary’s Total Energy Services Inc. (ticker: TOT) appointed Glenn Dagenais to its board of directors this week to replace Randy Kwasnicia, who is retiring after 11 years of service as a director of Total, the company said in a news …

October 18, 2017 - 7:35 pm Canada, Closing Bell Story‎, People
Anadarko Consolidates Corporate Leadership

Anadarko Consolidates Corporate Leadership

Anadarko Petroleum (ticker: APC) announced several high-level changes at the corporate management level this week, consolidating some management responsibility areas and shrinking its senior leadership team.

Investing focus is on U.S. onshore and tiebacks in the GOM: executive management team

Baker Hughes Names Simonelli Chairman after Immelt Departs GE Early

Baker Hughes Names Simonelli Chairman after Immelt Departs GE Early

Flannery takes over as GE’s chairman

GE surprised a few people yesterday announcing that Jeff Immelt had stepped down Oct. 2 as the company’s chairman, a move that was originally scheduled for Dec. 31, 2017.

John Flannery, who was formerly …

Precision Drilling Adds a Director

Precision Drilling Adds a Director

Precision Drilling Corporation (ticker: PDS) has added Susan M. MacKenzie to its board of directors.

MacKenzie previously served as Chief Operating Officer with Oilsands Quest Inc., a NYSE Amex-listed oil sands company. Prior to that, she was employed for 12 …

September 22, 2017 - 2:28 pm Canada, Closing Bell Story‎, Oil and Gas 360 Articles, People
Exclusive Video Interview with Preng & Associates President & CEO David Preng

Exclusive Video Interview with Preng & Associates President & CEO David Preng

Preng & Associates: global energy search leader seeing uptick in search activity at the CEO and CFO level

At its recent 2017 The Oil & Gas Conference®, EnerCom’s Oil & Gas 360® conducted an exclusive video interview with Preng & …

Haynes and Boone Snags Energy Litigation Pros

Haynes and Boone Snags Energy Litigation Pros

Craig Stahl and Jeffrey Kuehnle have joined the Houston office of energy powerhouse Haynes and Boone, LLP as partners in the firm’s Litigation and Energy Practice Groups.

Stahl has decades of experience handling oil and gas litigation, including serving as …

September 6, 2017 - 6:50 pm Closing Bell Story‎, Law, Oil and Gas 360 Articles, People
Denver’s Hein & Associates to Merge with Seattle’s Moss Adams

Denver’s Hein & Associates to Merge with Seattle’s Moss Adams

Combination will create $600 million middle-market accounting/tax/audit leader in the western U.S. with strong oil & gas practice group

Moss Adams LLP, one of the largest accounting, consulting and wealth management firms in the nation, and Hein & Associates LLP, …

Reserve Your Place in Singapore July 11-12, 2017

Reserve Your Place in Singapore July 11-12, 2017

Worldwide petroleum consulting firm Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. (NSAI) is taking its NSAI Oil & Gas Property Evaluation Seminar to Singapore on July 11-12, 2017.

What:  NSAI Oil & Gas Property Evaluation Seminar – Singapore

When: July 11-12, 2017…

ENSERVCO Looking for a CFO

ENSERVCO Looking for a CFO

Denver-based ENSERVCO Corporation (ticker: ENSV) has announced that its chief financial officer Bob Devers will leave on August 4, 2017, to pursue other opportunities.

ENSERVCO said it expects to name a new chief financial officer in the coming weeks, following …

June 9, 2017 - 3:21 pm Closing Bell Story‎, Oilfield Services, People
Baker Hughes, GE Announce Executive Leadership Team for Baker Hughes, a GE Company

Baker Hughes, GE Announce Executive Leadership Team for Baker Hughes, a GE Company

Baker Hughes Incorporated (ticker: BHI) and General Electric Company (ticker: GE) announced the executive team that will lead Baker Hughes, a GE Company, upon closing of their proposed transaction to combine GE’s Oil & Gas business with Baker Hughes.

The …

Netherland Sewell Heading to Asia

Netherland Sewell Heading to Asia

Growing volume of U.S. crude oil exports begs the question: ‘what is the Permian?’

Reuters recently reported “a flotilla of tankers” was heading to Asian ports carrying ten million barrels of U.S. produced crude oil, with some of those barrels …

What’s Worth More to the State of Texas—Land or Oil?

Texas Railroad Commission Keeps its Name, Commissioner Discusses Innovative Disruption

Sitton is Texas Railroad Commission’s first engineer in 50 years

Texas Railroad Commissioner Ryan Sitton met with 100 senior level oil and gas executives in Houston this week for An Energy Evening.

Sitton was elected to the Railroad Commission in …

Anadarko Makes Leadership Changes

Anadarko Makes Leadership Changes

Anadarko Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: APC) has named Daniel E. Brown Executive Vice President, International and Deepwater Operations, and Bradley J. Holly Executive Vice President, U.S. Onshore Exploration and Production.

“Danny and Brad have each been with Anadarko for the last …

EnCap-Backed PetroLegacy Snags 20,000 Midland Acres from Pioneer

EnCap-Backed PetroLegacy Snags 20,000 Midland Acres from Pioneer

99% HBP by 220 producing vertical wells

EnCap-backed PetroLegacy Energy II, LLC closed on the acquisition of roughly 20,000 net acres in northeastern Martin County, Texas, from Pioneer Natural Resources Company (ticker: PXD) for $266 million.

PetroLegacy said the Northern …

Former BP Head Tony Hayward on the Move

From UPI

After moving over from BP, Tony Hayward is leaving as the chairman of the board of Iraqi oil and gas player Genel Energy, the company announced Monday.

Genel Chief Executive Murat Ozgul announced Hayward is retiring as of …

April 28, 2017 - 1:55 pm Closing Bell Story‎, Energy News, People
Buckley & Boots Founders Join PLS

Buckley & Boots Founders Join PLS

Houston-based oil and gas research and advisory firm PLS Inc. expanded its Energy Advisors division with the addition of Martin Buckley and Myron Boots, the co-founders of Buckley & Boots (B&B).

Buckley & Boots Founders Join PLS

During the past 30 years, B&B has worked for …

April 27, 2017 - 10:10 am Closing Bell Story‎, People
Hein Named to 2017 Top 100 Firms by Accounting Today

Hein Named to 2017 Top 100 Firms by Accounting Today

For the 18th consecutive year, Hein has been named as a 2017 Top 100 Firm by Accounting Today, in recognition of the firm’s continued growth and operational excellence.

For Hein, key recognition points in the Top 100 report included:

  • Improved
Energy XXI Gulf Coast Appoints Douglas E. Brooks President and CEO

Energy XXI Gulf Coast Appoints Douglas E. Brooks President and CEO

Energy XXI Gulf Coast, Inc. (ticker: EXXI) has appointed Douglas E. Brooks as its CEO and president, effective April 17, 2017, the company announced in a news release.  The Energy XXI Gulf Coast Board of Directors concurrently increased the …

Devon Energy Promotes Jeff Ritenour to CFO

Devon Energy Promotes Jeff Ritenour to CFO

Devon Energy Corp. (ticker: DVN) announced today that the company’s board of directors has elected Jeff Ritenour, most recently Devon’s senior vice president of corporate finance, investor relations and treasurer, to the position of executive vice president and chief financial …

April 19, 2017 - 5:51 pm Closing Bell Story‎, Oil and Gas 360 Articles, People
PDC Energy (ticker: PDCE) CEO Bart Brookman rang the Nasdaq opening bell today in celebration of PDC’s 40 years trading on Nasdaq.

PDC Energy Celebrates 40 Years on Nasdaq

PDC Energy Celebrates 40 Years on Nasdaq

PDC Energy (ticker: PDCE) CEO Bart Brookman rang the Nasdaq opening bell today in celebration of PDC’s 40 years trading on Nasdaq. The company had numerous executives on site for the occasion at the Nasdaq MarketSite in Times Square.

PDC Energy Celebrates 40 Years on Nasdaq

PDCE:

Netherland Sewell 2017 Oil & Gas Property Evaluation Seminars Begin May 8

Netherland Sewell 2017 Oil & Gas Property Evaluation Seminars Begin May 8

Registration is open for Netherland Sewell’s 2017 Oil & Gas Property Evaluation Seminars 

Each year since 1994, Netherland Sewell & Associates, Inc. (NSAI), one of the industry’s most highly regarded petroleum consulting firms, has conducted its popular Oil & Gas …

Can Musk Make the Model 3 Happen—or is the On-ramp Way Too Steep?

Can Musk Make the Model 3 Happen—or is the On-ramp Way Too Steep?

Luxury electric car maker goes to the trough for another billion dollars, sells 5% of company to Chinese Internet giant

“We are planning to produce 500,000 total vehicles in 2018, which is approximately double our prior growth plan” 

Shares of …