Gary E. Slagel has joined Steptoe & Johnson PLLC’s office in Canonsburg, PA. as Government Affairs Specialist to the firm. 

Great American Group Inc. (OTCBB: GAMR) is expanding its oil and gas practice with the addition of Robert Callaway as vice president, Head of Oil and Gas.

Oceaneering Asset Integrity has secured a five-year global Risk Based Inspections (RBI) frame agreement with Teekay Corp. subsidiary Teekay Petrojarl.

The US Gulf Coast oil and gas industry was honored with the equivalent of the film industry’s Academy Awards on March 20 at the Westin Galleria Hotel in Houston. Among the top winners at the 2013 Gulf Coast Oil & Gas Awards were Gary C. Evans, chairman and CEO of Magnum Hunter Resources Corp., and Houston-based Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

ABS Group has appointed Paul Little as president of EQECAT, its catastrophe modeling company. Little replaces Bill Keogh who has resigned from the company to pursue another opportunity in the insurance sector.

Oil and gas exposition Louisiana Gulf Coast Oil Exposition (LAGCOE), recently announced the appointments of its 2013 officers. 

A group of environmental organizations, philanthropic foundations, and energy companies have collaborated to form a unique center to provide producers with certification of performance standards for shale development. 

Energy infrastructure company Williams has elected Ralph Izzo to the company's board of directors. This increases the size of Williams' board to 11.

Houston-based Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP (NYSE: KMP) said March 14 that it has closed its previously announced sale of its one-third interest in the Express-Platte Pipeline System to Spectra Energy Corp for approximately $380 million, pre-tax.