Oxane Materials names Clay Border V.P. of sales

Oxane Materials, a Houston-based marketer and manufacturer of Advanced Ceramic Proppant, has announced the addition of Clay Border as V.P. of sales. In his role, Border will lead Oxane’s sales team, focusing on field performance and return utilizing the company’s proprietary proppant.

Oxane' s patented proppant travels deeper and more uniformly into oil and gas formations, while affording a more conductive channel for flow to the wellbore. As a result, more hydrocarbons are produced at a more rapid rate, relative to wells propped with commodity proppants.

Previously, Border was managing director for Donovan Capital, an energy-focused investment bank that provided merchant bank, advisory and capital raising services to private upstream energy companies. He was also V.P. within the securities division of Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co., an energy investment banking and research firm based in Houston. Before entering the securities industry, Border was a technical sales engineer for a division of Emerson Electric and Reliance Electric (acquired by Rockwell Automation).

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Petrofac awarded $1.2 billion Khazzan gas processing project in Sultanate of Oman

Petrofac, the international oil and gas services provider, has been awarded a contract by BP, worth approximately $1.2 billion, for the central processing facility (CPF) for the Khazzan gas project in the Oman sultanate.

The scope of work will include engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) of the central processing facility (CPF) at the Khazzan field.  The CPF will include two process trains, each having a capacity of 525 MMcfgd.  The project also includes an associated condensate processing system, power generation plant, water treatment system and all associated utilities and infrastructure.  The project is expected to be completed in 2017.

Subramanian Sarma, Managing Director of Petrofac' s Onshore Engineering & Construction business, commented:  “Petrofac has executed a large number of projects for BP across many aspects of our business and we are delighted to be supporting them on this pioneering project at Khazzan, the largest new upstream project in Oman."

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DNV GL appoints new regional manager for UK, southern Africa

Hari Vamadevan has been appointed as DNV GL’s regional manager for the UK and southern Africa. He was previously DNV’s UK regional manager, and he will oversee 13 oil and gas offices throughout the UK in this new role. The number of staff in the country has doubled from 400 to 800.

The addition of southern Africa to the region brings opportunities to transfer the knowledge and technology from the UK Continental Shelf (UKCS) to areas such as Angola, Nigeria, Ghana, and newer developments in Mozambique and Tanzania.

DNV GL’s offering to the market includes the Spadeadam test site in northern England. The facility is equipped to carry out large- and full-scale hazardous trials on oil and gas assets, simulating real-world environments.

In addition, DNV GL has onshore pipeline expertise at a flow center in northeast England. The center is one of the largest high-pressure natural gas flow facilities in the world.

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