Dragon Oil PLC has appointed Abdul-Jaleel Al-Khalifa as chief executive officer.
Al-Khalifa brings to Dragon Oil 23 years of leadership and technical experience in exploration and petroleum engineering. He joins the company from Saudi Aramco, where he managed a range of departments for 12 years while based in Dhahran.
Hussain M. Sultan, current Dragon Oil chairman and chief executive officer, will continue in the role of executive chairman.
Other moves
Chevron Corp. has promoted Melody Meyer to president of Chevron Energy Technology and Louie Ehrlich to president and chief information officer (CIO) of Chevron Information Technology, effective June 1.
Meyer currently is vice-president of the Gulf of Mexico strategic business unit in Covington, La. During her career, she has held operating management assignments in Kazakhstan and Angola and senior positions in Chevron’s North America upstream organization, including vice-president of the Midcontinent business unit in Houston.
Ehrlich joined Chevron in 1981 as a programmer-analyst in New Orleans, La. He has held several senior roles, including CIO for Chevron’s downstream marketing business. Ehrlich currently is vice-president of services and strategy and CIO for global downstream.
Occidental Petroleum Corp. has announced the election of William E. Albrecht as president of its Oxy Oil & Gas USA subsidiary.
Separately, Todd A. Stevens will succeed Albrecht in his formerly held position as Oxy Oil & Gas vice-president, California operations.
Prior to this promotion, Stevens has held a series of finance roles during his 13-year career at Oxy.
Marathon Oil Co. has appointed Annell R. Bay as senior vice-president, exploration, effective June 23. Bay will succeed Philip G. Behrman, who will retire July 1.
Bay has served as vice-president, exploration, at Shell Exploration & Production Co. since 2004.
Houston-based Striker Oil & Gas Inc. (formerly Unicorp Inc.) has named Robert G. Wonish to serve as the company’s president and chief operating officer.
Wonish has more than 32 years of experience in the oil and gas industry.
Most recently, Wonish served during 2007-08 as president and chief operating officer of Petroleum Engineers Inc. He also has held positions at Panaco Inc. and Amoco Production Co.
Royal Dutch Shell PLC has appointed Mark Quartermain president of Shell Energy North America LP (SENA) and Shell Energy North America Inc. as well as head of Shell Energy Trading Ltd.’s leadership team, effective May 1.
Quartermain currently serves as SENA senior vice-president, south region. He joined Shell in 1983 and has extensive experience within Shell Energy Trading’s network, having worked in key positions within the crude, products, and risk management groups. Quartermain also helped establish Shell’s European gas trading activities.
Rex Energy Corp. has appointed James Watson vice-president of drilling for its Appalachian basin region.
Watson will manage the company’s drilling programs, including its Marcellus shale drilling activities. Before joining Rex, Watson served as Range Resources Corp.’s manager of drilling for Appalachia shale.
Watson has more than 18 years of experience in drilling for oil and gas in the Appalachian basin.
Mariner Energy Inc. has promoted Mike McCullough to vice-president, acquisitions and divestitures, and Ken Moore to vice-president, onshore land.
McCullough joined Houston-based Mariner in 2004 as senior reservoir engineer and was promoted to manager, exploitation and acquisitions, in 2006 before taking on his current responsibilities.
Moore began his career at Mariner in 2003. He was named business development manager, onshore, in 2004.
Gold Point Energy Corp., Vancouver, BC, has named Kevin Allison vice-president, exploration.
Allison is a petroleum explorationist with 30 years’ experience in North American and international geological and geophysical prospecting. He has worked in 26 countries, including Delta Petroleum Corp., Pangaea Energy Corp., Apache International, Hunt Oil Co., Phillips Petroleum Co., and Texaco Inc.
Gold Point Energy is developing energy projects in North and South America.
Harvest Natural Resources Inc. has appointed Patrick R. Oenbring vice-president, western operations.
Oenbring has 34 years of experience in the oil and gas business in both technical and management positions.
Before joining Harvest, Oenbring was chief operating officer for Cygnus Oil & Gas Co. He also has served as senior project manager for Technip Offshore Inc. and president and general manager of Occidental Petroleum of Qatar.
