Paul Carsten Pedersen has been appointed chief executive of Denmark's Maersk FPSOs, which was formerly known as Maersk Contractors.

US oil company Apache has formed an office of the chief executive with three executives reporting to chief executive G Steven Farris. Roger Plank , chief financial officer, named president; John Crum , president of Apache Canada, named co-chief operating officer and president-North America; Rodney Eichler , general manager of Apache's Egypt region, named co-chief operating officer and president-international.

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