
NOV Names New Chief Technology Officer
of Hege Kverneland who will retire after more than two decades with National Oilwell VarcoKverneland joined NOV through the acquisition of Hitec in 1999. Starting in 2001, Kverneland worked as the Company’s Corporate R&D manager until she was promoted to Chief Technology Officer in 2009.Clay Williams, Chairman, President and CEO of National Oilwell Varco, remarked, “I am grateful for the enormous impact Hege has made on NOV and on the industry we serve. She has been a prominent industry spokesperson, consistently advocating for better, safer, more efficient ways of executing the critical
NOV, GE to Provide Integrated Solutions for FPSOs
efforts and commence offering topside package solutions to the oil and gas industry by early 2017. “We can materially improve deepwater production economics by industrializing the supply chain and standardizing complex interfaces between our complementary topside equipment,” said Clay Williams, NOV’s Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. “For the past year we have quietly explored this new and better way to make floating production vessels and are excited about how this collaboration will change the industry and improve the economics of deepwater production developmen