•Halliburton chief financial officer Mark McCollum is leaving to become chief executive of Weatherford International, with acting chief executive Krishna Shivram quitting

• Lyn Beaty has been promoted to vice president of finance at Halliburton

• Tom Wheeler has replaced the retiring Simon Toole as director of regulation at the UK’s Oil & Gas Authority

• Wilbur Ross has quit the board of Exco Resources with Anthony Horton and Stephen Toy joining

• Cairn India has named Melody Meyer and Atul Gupta senior oil and gas advisors

• Shinichi Nakamura has replaced Takao Iwata as general manager of the domestic exploration and exploitation unit at Inpex

• Global Maritime Consultancy & Engineering has named Espen Thomassen as regional manager Americas

• Bill Utt...