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Australia, described as the “world’s putting in a new leader. Pouyanné was appointed two days after ? rst objectives based environmental the crash, with Thierry Besmarest brought in as chairman to sup-

Rig stats management regime” port Pouyanné until the end of 2015.

Worldwide

The new regime was sparked largely Until 22 October, Pouyanné was President of Re? ning &

Rig Type Total Rigs Contracted Available Utilization by the 2009 Montara well blowout in Chemicals, a role he had held since 2011, and a member of the

Drillship 110 98 12 89% the Timor Sea. The Montara blowout Executive Committee since 2012. He graduated from the École 425 364 61 85%Jackup prompted considerable debate about Polytechnique and was an Engineer of the French Corps des 182 159 23 87%Semisub the future shape of Australia’s offshore Mines. He’s held roles in the French Industry Ministry and was 34 22 12 64%

Tenders petroleum industry, including the a technical advisor to the Prime Minister from 1993-1995 and

Total 751 643 108 85% requirement for an independent pro- chief of staff to the Information Technology and Space Minister

Gulf of Mexico fessional regulator from 1995-1996. He joined Total in 1997, becoming Senior

Rig Type Total Rigs Contracted Available Utilization

Cutler was CEO of NOPSEMA’s predecessor, the National Vice President, Strategy, Business Development and R&D in

Drillship 31 29 2 93%

Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority, at the time and oversaw its Exploration & Production in 2006. 90 70 20 77%

Jackup transformation into NOPSEMA. 28 23 582%

Semisub

Helge Hove Haldorsen

The chemical engineer by training has 30 years’ experience in is the

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Tenders the petroleum and ? nancial services industries, including posts sartorially minded 2015, the Society of 149 122 27 81%

Total at Woodside Energy, BHP Petroleum and Esso Australia. Petroleum Engineers president.

Asia Paci? c

He is currently vice president

But, it has been since 2009, when she became CEO of the

Rig Type Total Rigs Contracted Available Utilization of strategy and portfolio for Statoil

National Offshore Petroleum Safety Authority (NOPSA) that she

Drillship 14 10 4 71%

Development and Production North has made her real mark on the industry.

Jackup 116 102 14 87%

America, based in Houston, but, in

According to the Australian Petroleum Production &

Semisub 37 28 9 75% addition to his SPE role, Haldorsen

Exploration Association’s CEO David Byers: “This was a consid- 25 14 1156%

Tenders

Helge Hove Haldorsen is also going to be leading Statoil’s erable achievement for Australia and a credit to her leadership

Total 192 154 3880%

Photo from SPE Aberdeen.

interests in Mexico soon. His move and professionalism.

Latin America with Statoil to Mexico comes at an unprecedented time for the

Cutler holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree and Master of

Rig Type Total Rigs Contracted Available Utilization

Mexican oil industry, as moves to break state oil ? rm PEMEX’s long

Environmental Studies and Master of Business Administration.

Drillship 27 27 0100% monopoly on exploration and production ? nally come into play.

Jackup 9 6 366% “Ones to watch”

Speaking about the North Sea industry in Aberdeen ear- 34 34 0100%

Semisub

Helge Lund – Statoil’s loss is BG lier this year, Haldorsen said Aberdeen had pioneered global

Tenders 2 2 0100%

Group’s gain, was the mantra when it offshore harsh environment exploration, but that it will need to

Total 72 69 395% was announced that Statoil CEO Helge “innovate its socks off” to maximize the North Sea’s remaining

Northwest European Continental Shelf

Lund had resigned in order to take potential and remain competitive globally. He said the industry

Rig Type Total Rigs Contracted Available Utilization over the UK-based group. needed to “invent E&P 2.0.”

Drillship 1 1 0100%

Lund has been Statoil’s CEO since “I do not think we are running out of oil, but we are going to 51 49 296%

Jackup 2004, overseeing its market capitaliza- run out of cheap easy oil,” he continued. “Oil prices are ? at,

Semisub 45 43 295% tion growing from US28.7 billion to costs are going up, by a factor of four since 2001, so we have a

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Tenders over $76.1 billion. Meanwhile, BG problem. We have to adapt. We need innovation.”

Helge Lund Photo by

Total 97 93 495%

Before joining Statoil, Haldorsen worked for Norsk Hydro in var-

Group has been without a CEO since

Ole Jørgen Bratland – Statoil.

Middle East & Caspian Sea ious roles, including chief reservoir engineer, vice president tech-

Chris Finlayson, who had been in the

Rig Type Total Rigs Contracted Available Utilization nology and competence, vice president exploration and research, post about a year, resigned in April.

Drillship 1 1 0100% senior vice president international exploration and production,

Analysts Investec said: “In terms of global industry leaders, it 108 95 13 87%

Jackup and president Hydro Gulf Mexico. He has also held positions at BP, is hard to imagine a more suitable candidate and the chairman

Semisub 3 3 0100%

Standard Oil of Ohio, and ExxonMobil. He was a second lieutenant should be congratulated for landing such a big ? sh. This is no

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Tenders in the Royal Norwegian Navy and a professor of Industrial math- hagiography; BG still faces challenges, but we believe it has a

Total 112 99 13 88% ematics at the University of Oslo. He earned an MS in petroleum better chance of addressing them with Lund on board.”

Sub-Saharan Africa engineering from the Norwegian Institute of technology and a PhD

Prior to his 10 years as CEO of Statoil, Lund was CEO of Aker

Rig Type Total Rigs Contracted Available Utilization n reservoir engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.

Kvaerner, an industrial conglomerate with operations in oil and

Drillship 30 29 196% gas and shipbuilding. He previously also served in the roles of

Jackup 26 21 580%

Also nominated:

Deputy CEO and Chief Financial Of? cer at the pharmaceutical 17 15 288%

Semisub

Bill Edgar division of Hafslund Nycomed, an industrial conglomerate. , chairman of the Society for Underwater Technology. 7 6 1 85%

Tenders

On honours graduate in engineering, he has been president 80 71 988%

Total

Patrick Pouyanné had been tipped to be the man to take of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He has held roles

Rest of the World over Total when charismatic CEO as managing director of Seaforth Engineering, which built the

Rig Type Total Rigs Contracted Available Utilization

Christophe de Margerie, or the original Underwater Training Center at Fort William, Scotland,

Drillship 6 1 5 16% board, decided his time was up. But, and the National Hyperbaric Centre, in Aberdeen. Edgar has also 25 21 4 84%

Jackup

Pouyanné’s thrust in to the limelight been Group Director of the John Wood Group, responsible for the

Semisub 18 13 5 72% came earlier than planned when de engineering and production facilities division, and was chair-

Tenders

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Margerie was killed in a plane crash man of the J.P. Kenny Group for 10 years. He is a past chairman

Total 49 35 14 71% at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport on 20 of the Offshore Construction Association.

Source: In? eldRigs

October.

14 November 2014

Oonagh Werngren is operations director at industry body Oil &

Tributes ? ooded in to de Margerie,

This data focuses on the marketed rig ? eet and excludes assets that are under construction, retired, destroyed, deemed non-competitive or cold stacked.

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