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July 6, 2015

Zion Oil & Gas

Carrillo

Zion Oil & Gas, Inc. announced that the Board of Directors appointed Victor G. Carrillo as the Company's new Chief Executive Officer and also appointed Glen Perry as the Company's new President and Chief Operating Officer, to be effective on June 15, 2015.

Mr. Carrillo succeeds John Brown, who was named as CEO in January 2014. Mr. Brown, the Company's founder, will continue to serve as Executive Chairman of Zion's Board of Directors.

Mr. Carrillo, age 50, was appointed to Zion's Board in September 2010 and appointed Executive Vice President in January 2011. In October of 2011 he was appointed as the Company President and COO. Mr. Carrillo also currently serves as a director of Magnum Hunter Resources Corporation (an oil and gas company engaged in the acquisition, development and production of unconventional oil and gas resource plays in the US) and serves on the Board of Directors for the Texas-Israel Chamber of Commerce and the Maguire Energy Institute at Southern Methodist University.

Mr. Carrillo is a petroleum geologist and geophysicist, attorney, former city councilman, former county judge, and former statewide elected official. From 2003 to 2011, Mr. Carrillo served as a commissioner of the Railroad Commission of Texas, having served twice as chairman of the three-member statewide elected board. Mr. Carrillo holds a law degree from the University of Houston, a Master of Science degree in geology from Baylor University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in geology from Hardin-Simmons University.

Zion Oil & Gas explores for oil and gas onshore in Israel and its operations are focused on the Megiddo-Jezreel License, (approximately 99,000 acres) south and west of the Sea of Galilee, where the Company plans to start drilling a deep exploratory well in late 2015.

Weatherford

Weatherford International plc introduced the commercial release of the IntegraLine™ liner system with swage technology at the IADC World Drilling 2015 Conference and Exhibition. Designed and engineered by Weatherford for critical environments, the IntegraLine high-performance liner system provides maximum reliability in critical applications such as ultra-deepwater, extended-reach, and sour-gas wells with high pressures and temperatures.

The IntegraLine liner system is comprised of three premium components: the polished bore receptacle, liner-top packer, and rotational hanger. The packer features swage sealing technology that forms an anti-extrusion, gas-tight barrier between the outer diameter of the packer body and the inner diameter of the host casing. This configuration reduces equipment failures that may threaten well integrity, allowing clients to achieve total depth efficiently while withstanding harsh conditions. Alternative components are also available to create a fit-for-purpose liner-hanger solution for specific, complex applications.

In a gas and condensate well in Alberta, Canada, the IntegraLine liner system with SwageSet packer established a gas-tight seal that enabled fracturing through the liner. Stimulation pressures reached 8,288 psi (57,144 MPa), and the system maintained zero pressure losses throughout the frac application.

Weatherford is one of the largest multinational oilfield service companies providing innovative solutions, technology, and services to the oil and gas industry. The Company operates in more than 100 countries and has a network of approximately 1,400 locations, including manufacturing, service, research and development, and training facilities.

Siemens

Siemens continues to develop its controller portfolio to handle sophisticated tasks in the process industry. Users of the flexibly configurable controllers, which offer a high level of security and availability, will therefore benefit from long-term investment protection. The first step was to give the Simatic S7-410 the standard coating for operation in toxic atmospheres and to further increase the fault tolerance of the redundant system. Siemens has also extended the ambient temperature range up to 70° C., which allows users to deploy the powerful Simatic PCS 7 controller in harsh environments, such as in oil and gas applications. The next steps will be, for example, to further expand the Profinet functionality in order to increase fault tolerance and availability.

The Simatic S7-410 controller is an integral part of the Siemens Simatic PCS 7 process control system and currently the most powerful controller in the process industry. This is particularly obvious in the integrated scaling feature: it is now possible to apply a uniform hardware and software environment for very small systems of 100 I/Os up to large-scale plants of more than 100,000 inputs/outputs. The Simatic S7-410 controller is available in a standard version as well as in fault-tolerant and fail-safe versions. The device therefore meets all the requirements of the process industry, including the chemical, glass, metal, food & beverage, pharmaceuticals, solar, oil & gas industries as well as the water and wastewater sectors.

Ceona

Preece

Ceona, SURF contractor with deepwater subsea construction capabilities, has announced that the company's executive vice president commercial and business development, Mark Preece, has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer.

Mark takes over from current CEO, Steve Preston, who after 40 years in the industry has decided to retire from operational management and step down. Steve has worked to establish Ceona as a key subsea player over the last three years, having been a prime mover and overseeing the construction of the company's purpose-built flagship, Ceona Amazon.

Ceona is a SURF and heavy subsea construction contractor in the deepwater market, specializing in full-service engineering, pipelay and construction project management and execution, including floater installation (Semi, TLP, SPAR). The company has already established an impressive track record which has seen it expand into West Africa, the Gulf of Mexico and Brazil.

The Ceona Amazon is a powerful, purpose-built hybrid vessel that can execute complex logistical projects in remote, harsh and deepwater territories in one trip. Designed to deliver full flexible or full rigid pipelay, she can change easily and quickly between each mode within five days and is weather resilient. Due to her on-board capacity-the Amazon has a deck area of 4,600m2 and the ability to carry 9,500te of pipe on deck and in her two holds - she can carry more product than any other of her counterparts while the multiple, vertical-lay pipelay system features a top tension of 600 tonnes and capable to lay rigid pipe to 3,000m (10,000 ft) water depth.

Ceona, which is backed by majority shareholder Goldman Sachs Capital Partners, has offices in London, Aberdeen and Houston, with strategic partners in Brazil and West Africa.

AFGlobal

AFGlobal Corporation announced that Curtis Samford, the Company's Chief Operating Officer, will assume the role of President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company. Samford succeeds Gean Stalcup who has served in this capacity for the past 5 years. Stalcup has been named Chairman of the Board for AFGlobal.

Samford joined the Company in 2012 as President - Oil & Gas and was later promoted to Chief Operating Officer in July 2013. Samford began his career in the oil and gas industry more than 30 years ago as a field engineer for Dresser Atlas. Over the course of his career, he has held escalating positions of responsibility for Shell Oil Company, Alcoa, and Precision Castparts.

AFGlobal Corporation is a privately-held Houston-based company with more than 30 facilities worldwide. The Company operates across the offshore drilling, onshore stimulation and subsea production segments of the oil and gas industry. AFGlobal also provides products and services to the industrial, aerospace and power generation industries, offering a broad range of highly-engineered products, as well as complementary aftermarket services.

Halliburton

Halliburton's Completion Tools business line, a long-standing industry leader in total composite plug technology, today introduced the Illusion® frac plug, the only fully dissolvable frac plug on the market. The new high-performance, 10,000 psi rated product shortens the time to production by eliminating the need to mill out plugs after fracturing, saving time and money for operators.

The Illusion frac plug revolutionizes plug-and-perf completions for fracturing in unconventional markets. Plugs can be installed at any position in the wellbore to enable optimal placement of perforations for improved fracturing, without prepositioned locator subs or other equipment that remains in the wellbore post-frac. Illusion frac plugs dissolve completely to leave an unrestricted bore for production, and since no intervention is required to clean the wellbore after the frac, risk is reduced and production may be brought on sooner to improve the net present value (NPV) of the asset.

Sparrows Group

Bertone

The Sparrows Group has boosted its senior management team with the appointment of an experienced director to head up its operations across the Americas. Steve Bertone joins the global leader in the provision of engineered products and services in the specialist areas of lifting and handling, cable and pipelay, and fluid power to the offshore oil and gas industry, after 33 years with McDermott International.

In his new role, Mr. Bertone will be based in Houston and will oversee all of Sparrows Group's operations in the US, Brazil, Mexico and the Caribbean. Before joining Sparrows Group, Mr. Bertone was McDermott's vice president of Marine Operations and has held the roles of country manager for Qatar and Saudi Arabia. He has an engineering background and graduated with a Masters from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in the state of New York.

Sparrows Group has had a presence in the US since 1999 and works across the Gulf of Mexico as the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for a number of crane brands. The company also has a joint venture, SparrowsBSM, in Brazil, and a partnership in Mexico. In the US, Sparrows Group operates over five sites. The company has office, workshop and fabrication facilities in Houston and at Abbeville, Broussard, Houma and Slidell in Louisiana.

Fugro

Fugro has successfully completed a year-long wellhead monitoring project for BP Americas Inc., measuring BOP stack motions and calculating wellhead fatigue during a deployment in the Gulf of Mexico.

The drilling campaign was conducted throughout 2014 in 6,000 ft of water depth and utilized the Fugro Wellhead and Riser Instrumentation Service (WARIS). This installation included transmission of motion spectra from the BOP stack and riser using standard hydroacoustic modems and the automatic processing of this data with topside environmental data to show levels of motion and fatigue and their correlation with sea states and ocean currents. This provided BP with access to real-time subsea data to aid their decision making throughout the deployment. Communications from the lower marine riser package (LMRP) and riser remained successful even with surface wave heights greater than 3 meters at times during the campaign.

The DeepData subsea motion monitoring pods, the main component in the system, were deployed to positions on the BOP stack and riser by a remotely operated vehicle (ROV). The pods were integrated with hydroacoustic modems and had battery capacity to last for one year of deployment. A topside system was supplied that included vessel motion monitoring and links to existing environmental monitoring systems.

To ensure that the data could be accessed and utilized by BP engineers anywhere in the world, Fugro's onshore data delivery system was used to plot and display all the processed data from the WARIS system. Summary plots were also distributed by email to a designated list of client recipients.

The success of the project indicated the technology could be deployed on other wells where fatigue capacity and potential loading is of interest.

IWCF

The International Well Control Forum (IWCF), the independent organization that sets international well control standards, has appointed David Conroy as its first Chief Technical Officer (CTO).

Based at the organization's UK headquarters, Mr. Conroy will be developing this new role to lead changes to the technical aspects of IWCF's services, including exam quality, programme development, curriculum and training.

Mr. Conroy has 20 years' experience in the international oil and gas industry. He will join IWCF in July from Schlumberger where he has held a variety of positions for over 10 years', latterly serving as Drilling & Drilling Engineering Director of Curriculum in Dubai.

Mr. Conroy holds a PhD in Geology from The Queen's University of Belfast, which initially led him to roles in geological surveying. Since joining the oil and gas industry in Aberdeen, he has worked in a variety of positions in Norway, Oman and Houston.

IWCF has recently invested in new facilities at its headquarters in Montrose, UK to improve training for well control assessors and instructors who address drilling operations and well intervention activities. The organization is actively recruiting for new members, anyone who is interested in having a say in well control safety should visit http://www.iwcf.org/ for more information.

HSB Solomon Associates

HSB Solomon Associates, a leading performance improvement company for the global energy industry, announced that they have entered into an agreement with Concord Consulting Group (CCG). The agreement gives Solomon ownership of CCG's methodology and database relating to their terminal and trucking business.

CCG is a consulting firm operating in the petroleum industry assessing the productivity of logistical operating units of over 30 major oil companies around the world. They have provided strategic benchmarking and logistics productivity analysis for more than 20 years. CCG is well known for its Petroleum Distribution Productivity Analysis (PDPA), an analysis of petroleum terminal and trucking operations.

Solomon will continue to provide CCG clients with benchmarking services that they have grown accustomed to over the past 20 years.

Solomon's benchmarking and consulting solutions help customers across the energy value chain achieve operational excellence by increasing efficiency, reliability, and profitability. Solomon also provides forecasting and advice on the North American gas market. Based in Dallas, Texas, USA, Solomon is part of The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company (HSB).

CIRCOR Energy

Statoil has chosen CIRCOR Energy | Instrumentation products as part of a significant supply package awarded to MRC Teamtrade, a Norwegian unit of MRC Global Inc., distributor of pipe, valve and fitting products and services to the energy and industrial markets. The package consists of all tube products and a complete range of high pressure valves and fittings, which includes CIRCOR's Gyrolok instrumentation tube fittings and HOKE valves and manifolds. The project will be using smart NORSOK compliant metallurgy to resist the potentially corrosive conditions and testing operational requirements.

Johan Sverdrup is one of the five largest oil fields on the Norwegian continental shelf. With expected resources between 1.7-3.0 billion barrels of oil equivalent, it will be one of the most important industrial projects in Norway over the next fifty years. The development and operation of this enormous field will provide revenues and jobs for the coming generations.

CIRCOR Energy's Instrumentation group has installed products in the Norwegian market for over twenty years. The installed base, combined with a best in class supply chain for the needed specialist raw materials, played an integral role in securing the flagship contract.

CIRCOR will be manufacturing all Johan Sverdrup project products at their state of the art manufacturing center in Spartanburg, South Carolina, USA. The Spartanburg location utilizes state of the art machining capability, supported by highly experienced supply chain and project management teams.

Key Energy Services, Inc.

Key Energy Services, Inc. announced that Robert Drummond has joined the Company as President and Chief Operating Officer, effective immediately. Mr. Drummond was formerly employed by Schlumberger for 31 years, serving in various positions of increasing responsibility including management, business development and operations. He most recently served as President of Schlumberger Limited's North American business unit.

With Mr. Drummond assuming the position of President, Richard J. Alario will remain Key's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

Mr. Drummond is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and serves as a Director of the National Ocean Industries Association and is a member of its Executive Committee. In addition, he serves on the Board of Directors for the Petroleum Equipment Suppliers Association and the Houston Offshore Energy Center.

Preece

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