• Inpex has named Masayuki Furuya senior co-ordinator Caspian Sea group E&P unit, Hajime Asayama project general manager for Eurasia and Middle East, Kei Fukui general manager planning and co-ordination unit for the Masela project, and Kazunori Jimbo senior co-ordinator of domestic construction and maintenance

• Arab Shipbuilding & Repair Yard has named Andrew Shaw chief executive

• Jonathan Wolf has joined the Investec oil and gas team as a director

• Weatherford International has made Bernard Duroc-Danner chairman emeritus

• Brett Silich has been named managing director of Farstad Shipping Australia

• Mattias Sjoborg has joined the board of Tethys Petroleum

• Kaat Van Hecke has replaced Eike von der Linden on the board of Nostrum Oil &...