Services/Suppliers

BonnonLondon, has appointed Ian Bonnon group managing director, renewables. He will develop the renewables business globally, and the new position reflects Noble Denton’s intention to secure significant worldwide market share in the provision of engineering, consultancy, and project management services to the renewables industry. Over the last 10 years, Bonnon has led the development of the UK renewables business within Noble Denton. He has more than 28 years of experience in the oil and gas, renewable energy, marine, and subsea cable industries. He joined BOMEL in 1998 as engineering manager and in 2003 was appointed to the position of director of engineering and projects. In 2004, following the acquisition of BOMEL by Noble Denton, he was appointed managing director of BOMEL. In 2008, Bonnon was named Europe southern operations director in Noble Denton.

Noble Denton, wholly owned by Germanischer Lloyd, is a provider of life cycle marine and offshore engineering services to the oil and gas, marine, and renewables industries.

National Oilwell Varco,

Houston, has named Hege Kverneland senior vice-president and chief technology officer, replacing Bob Bloom, who is retiring after 40 years of service to NOV. She is relocating from Stavanger to Houston. Kverneland has an MS in mechanical engineering from the Norwegian University of Science and is a recent graduate of Harvard Business School’s General Management Program. She has 10 years of extensive engineering and product management background, contributing to quality assurance and research and product development. Kverneland began with Hitec in 1994, joining NOV through acquisition. She has authored numerous peer-reviewed technical papers, as well as two textbooks on offshore hydraulics.

NOV is a leader in the design, manufacture, and sale of comprehensive oil field systems and components, tubular inspection and coatings, integrated systems, drill string products, lifting and handling equipment, as well as in providing supply chain integration services to the upstream oil and gas industry.

Cameron,

Houston, has acquired the MaxTorque line of products and services. The business will now be offered through Cameron’s Flow Control division, part of the company’s Drilling & Production Systems group. MaxTorque designs, manufactures, markets, and sells high-performance quarter-turn and multi-turn gear operators for motorized and manual applications, subsea operators, Navy-specific operators, overrides, and engineered solutions. The company has a manufacturing plant in Limerick, Me., that will continue to develop, sell, and service these products.

Cameron is a leading provider of flow equipment products, systems, and services to the worldwide oil, gas, and process industries.