Maersk Oil North Sea UK has named Martin Rune Pedersen as its new Managing Director, following the retirement of current managing director Tom van Leenen.

Offshore Solutions BV (OSBV), the joint venture between AMEC and Cofely Nederland NV,has appointed Lindsay Young as managing director.

Standard Chartered Bank has named Yi Meng to the newly created role of Managing Director and Head, Strategic Client Coverage Group in Origination & Client Coverage, China.

Robert D. Ashauer, CFO of oil services company Kinetex Resources Corp., has resigned.

Resaca Exploitation Inc. has named J.P. Bryan, current chairman of the board, as chairman of the board and CEO. John J. "Jay" Lendrum, III will assume the role of vice chairman.

Senergy has appointed Øystein Roti has been named managing director of Senergy Norway, based in the Stavanger office, to lead the company’s expansion.

Environmental attorney Scott Deatherage has joined the Dallas office of law firm Patton Boggs LLP.

Th. W. (Theo) Eysink has been named CFO and joins the board of management of Stork Technical Services Holding.

Bobby Dixon has joined accounting and consultancy firm McConnell Jones Lanier & Murphy LLP (MJLM) in the consulting practice.

As part of its initiaive to build its energy practice, Stephens Inc. has welcomed William Butler back to Stephens Inc. as a senior vice president to develop an E&P Research practice.

The CEO of CNOOC Ltd., part of China National Offshore Oil Corp., Fu Chengyu, has announced his plans to resign from his CEO role, but retain the role of chairman of the board.

Houston American Energy Corp. has appointed Kenneth (Ken) A. Jeffers as senior vice president of exploration.

Madison Williams and Co., an integrated capital markets and investment banking firm, has hired Jovan P. Vojvodic as a managing director in its Houston office.

Miriam P. Westmoreland has joined energy law firm Burleson Cooke as director of marketing and recruiting.

Apache Corp. (NYSE, Nasdaq: APA) has made two new executive appointments.