Edgo Group,
Amman, Jordan, has appointed Marc Mazen Afyouni group regional director for Libya, Algeria, and Chad. He replaces Maher Jadallah, who is relocating to Amman and will be part of the senior management team responsible for setting strategic policy. Previously, Mazen was employed by Schlumberger, where he worked for 27 years in roles ranging from wireline logging field engineer to his appointment as general manager of Schlumberger’s unit in Chad. Mazen will also serve as Camco general manager in Libya. Camco specializes in slickline, cased-hole logging, TCP and wireline perforation, surface well testing, mini-DST, and electronic memory gauges. Its scope of services will be expanded further in 2008 to include open-hole logging and multiphase flow meters. Mazen graduated from the University of Grenoble, France, in 1981.
Edgo is a diversified engineering services company offering oil field services and infrastructure engineering and logistical support in 21 countries.
Transocean Inc.,
Houston, has named Arnaud Bobillier executive vice-president, assets, succeeding Jean Cahuzac, who is leaving the company to pursue another opportunity. Bobillier previously served as senior vice-president of the company’s Europe and Africa Unit (EAU). He began his career with a predecessor company in 1980 and has served in various management positions in several countries. Bobillier, based in Houston, holds an engineering degree in fluid mechanics and thermodynamics from the Ecole Superieure des Techniques de l’Ingenieur de Nancy, France. Transocean also named Ricardo Rosa senior vice-president, EAU, replacing Bobillier. Rosa previously was senior vice-president of the company’s Asia and Pacific Unit (APU). Prior to that, he served as vice-president and controller and in a variety of international positions in finance for 19 years with Transocean, a predecessor company, and its parent firm. Rosa, based in Paris, graduated from Oxford University with an MA and subsequently qualified as a Chartered Accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Succeeding Rosa as SVP, APU, is Deepak Munganahalli, based in Singapore. Munganahalli previously served as manager of the company’s India Division, which has grown in recent years from one rig to 13 mobile offshore drilling units. He joined a predecessor company in 1991 and has served in various positions of increasing responsibility, including head of operations in Gabon and corporate training manager in Pau, France. Munganahalli is a graduate of the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur and Harvard Business School’s General Management Program.
Transocean Inc. is the world’s largest offshore drilling contractor and the leading provider of drilling management services worldwide.
