Jiffy Lube International, Inc., an industry leader in vehicle maintenance services, announced last week that Edward Hymes has been appointed president, responsible for the management and growth of the Jiffy Lube franchise, including oversight of more than 2,000 independently owned Jiffy Lube service centers in the U.S. and Canada.  He succeeds Patrick Southwick, who is […]

Viva Energy Australia announced the appointment of Dale Cooper as executive general manager of the Geelong Refinery, succeeding Thys Heyns who was promoted to chief operating officer. Cooper has more than 30 years’ experience in the oil & gas, refining and transportation industries. He spent more than 20 years with Irving Oil in Canada where […]

Sushil Purohit  has been appointed president of Wärtsilä Energy, executive vice president, and member of the Board of Management of Wärtsilä Corporation, effective the 3rd of August. In this position, he is responsible for Wärtsilä’s Energy business globally and will report to President and CEO Jaakko Eskola.The current Head of Wärtsilä Energy, Marco Wirén, is […]

Vinod Paremal has assumed the position of regional president of the Indian Subcontinent for Evonik Industries AG effective July 1st.  Vinod was appointed to this position after successfully heading Marketing & Sales for Performance Foams in the Business Line High Performance Polymers in Darmstadt, Germany. For his new assignment Vinod Paremal will move to Mumbai, […]

BP announced that Yang Shixu will be the president of BP China and the senior vice president of BP group’s regional affairs and urban low-carbon solutions effective July 1st. Yang Shixu has been working in BP for more than 20 years. He worked at McKinsey China and Unilever, and joined BP in 1998. Yang mainly […]

ExxonMobil Qatar has announced the appointment of Dominic Genetti as president and general manager effective July 1st. Genetti, who previously served as ExxonMobil Qatar’s vice president and executive director of Joint Ventures, will succeed Alistair Routledge. After eight years at ExxonMobil Qatar, Routledge has been appointed general manager of Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Ltd., […]

Eric Walker has been appointed president of Chevron Bangladesh companies based in Dhaka, commencing his position in July 2020. Eric succeeds Neil Menzies, who will be taking on a new position with the company in the United States. Prior to joining Chevron Bangladesh, Eric was the general manager of Reservoir Management for Europe, Eurasia, and […]

Motiva Enterprises announced that Georganne Hodges has been appointed as executive vice president of Supply, Trading and Logistics, following Todd Fredin’s retirement effective July 1. Hodges has most recently served as Motiva’s chief financial officer (CFO) and executive vice president of Finance, Supply Chain Management and Information Technology. Hodges brings 30-plus years of wholesale and […]

Christian Librera has been appointed head of Clariant’s Biofuels & Derivatives business unit effective June 1st. He succeeds Markus Rarbach, who has decided to pursue his career outside of Clariant. “My sincere thanks goes to Markus Rarbach for his tremendous contributions over the past 14 years to help transform sunliquid from an R&D project to […]

Emery Oleochemicals, a world leading, natural–based specialty chemicals producer and the world’s largest commercial producer of azelaic acid, is expanding its bio-lubricants commercial team. Alexis Weber and Michael Chong have joined Emery Oleochemicals as sales manager based in Düsseldorf, Germany, and as regional sales manager based in Telok Panglima Garang, Malaysia, respectively.  They will both […]