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Victor Aquina, Hertel Caspian region managing director and former Nacap chief executive officer, is Hertel's new CEO. He succeeded Paul Broekhuijsen, who joined the company in April 2011 and led it through a major reorganization. "With Victor Aquina... we have an excellent successor, who already knows the business quite well," the company's supervisory board said in a prepared statement. Aquina joined Hertel in May 2013. He has extensive international experience from his previous positions in senior management at Philips Electronics, Mondi Group, as well as at Nacap.
Air and steam equipment rental specialist Airpac Bukom Oilfield Services appointed Chris Taylor as director for the Americas. He will help broaden the company's portfolio of activity within the Americas oil and gas market sector for Airpac Bukom. Taylor last worked for Coates Offshore as head of business development, emerging markets. Previously, he worked as the business development director at Scantech Offshore, focusing on its activities in Africa and Latin America.
An Obama administration official who oversees offshore oil leasing and helped shake up federal agencies after the Deepwater Horizon disaster is now joining Interior Secretary Sally Jewell's inner circle. Tommy Beaudreau, acting assistant secretary of land and minerals management at the Interior Department, is set to become the secretary's chief of staff, succeeding Laura Daniel Davis, a 5-year veteran of the post. Beaudreau is a lawyer who first joined the Interior Department in June 2010 to oversee the reorganization of the former Minerals Management Service after the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Later, he was tapped as the first director of the new Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, which handles offshore energy leasing, and then he took over the acting assistant secretary post.
Charles Nugent, 52, was appointed vice president, manufacturing, for GE Oil «fe Gas, reporting to Lorenzo Simonelli, senior vice president and chief executive officer of GE Oil «fe Gas. Nugent has been with GE for 30 years, holding a number of leadership roles in plant management and operations with GE Aviation. Most recently, he served as senior executive, product management at GE Aviation. Nugent holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Michigan State University and a master's degree in engineering from the University of Cincinnati.
JP Energy Partners appointed Patrick...