Milestones

Fugro’s Board of Management has appointed Erik-Jan Bijvank as Group Director for Europe and Africa. He will start at Fugro on 1 January 2020.

The Board of BP announces that, after a 40-year career with BP and over nine years as group chief executive, Bob Dudley, 64, has decided to step down as group chief executive and from the BP Board following delivery of the company’s 2019 full year results on 4 February 2020 and will retire on 31 March 2020.

A major milestone has been reached in an ambitious plan to bring marine manufacturing and support industries back to the Upper Clyde.

Yara Marine Technologies, a Norwegian based scrubber supplier announced a change of leadership as Dr. Thomas Koniordos was introduced as the company’s new CEO. Koniordos, who up until 18th of September served as Yara’s Head of Environmental Solutions, and also as Chairman of the Yara Marine Board, will succeed Peter Strandberg, the company's founder.

Veteran energy industry association executive Erik Milito has been named as the new president of the National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) and will to take the helm of the offshore energy association effective November 1, 2019.

Attendees at BlueTech Week 2019 in San Diego California 18-22 November 2019 will not only be exposed to opportunities via the United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, they can exchange ideas with representatives from academia, industry, and policymakers about how to develop innovation clusters that support this agenda.

Following a joint meeting between the UK’s National Oceanography Centre (NOC), the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and Government representatives on 17 September 2019, it was confirmed that the NOC will become a legally independent self-governing organization from 1 November 2019 – a charitable Company Limited by Guarantee with a trading subsidiary for undertaking work of a more commercial nature.

Motive Offshore Group has been crowned winner of the Going Global category at the Northern Star Business Awards (NSBAs) organized by Aberdeen and Grampian Chamber of Commerce.

Energy rental and service company, Tiger Rentals (“Tiger”) announces the appointment of Paulo Silva Curto as Business Development Manager for Middle East. Paulo has over 15 years’ experience working in international business, most of them within the global upstream sector of the oil and gas industry, in various senior management and commercial roles. Most recently, he was Tiger’s General Manager for Sub-Saharan Africa.

James Fisher Offshore (JFO), a global provider of specialist offshore engineering solutions, pledges to deliver significant efficiencies across multiple regional projects by enhancing its Middle Eastern footprint, establishing bases in Saudi Arabia and Dubai.

BMT, a leading international design, engineering, science and management consultancy, has sold its UK-based SMART business to GreenSteam, a majority owned company of BP. The marine efficiency software solutions provider is reputable in leveraging Machine Learning methodologies and next generation fuel saving platforms to stimulate the sustainable development of Shipping and World Sea Trade.

What does that mean? An Ocean Guardian School makes a commitment to the protection and conservation of its local watersheds, the world's ocean, and special ocean areas, like national marine sanctuaries. Ocean Guardian schools make this commitment by proposing and then implementing a school- or community-based conservation project.