• Essam al-Marzouk has been appointed as Kuwait's new oil minister
• Gordon McIntosh has been appointed deputy minister of the Department of Natural Resources in Newfoundland & Labrador
• Shell has appointed Gasser Hanter to lead its Egypt operations
• Panhandle Oil & Gas has named Paul Blanchard president and chief executive
• Ed LaFehr is succeeding James Bowzer as chief executive of Baytex Energy
• TransCanada has named Siim Vanaselja chairman, succeeding Barry Jackson, who is retiring
• Rick Muncrief is replacing William Lowrie as chairman of WPX Energy
• Wood Group has named Vikas Moharir head of business development, Joe Sanders head of delivery assurance, Chris Strohman head of health, safety, security, environment and assurance,...