John Hrncir has been named vice-president of sales and service, pressure control, at Weir Oil & Gas, a Fort Worth-based upstream provider of pressure pumping and pressure control equipment and services. Source: News

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP has added six energy partners, all formerly of Baker Boots LLP, as founders of the firm’s newly opened Houston office. Source: News

Centennial Resource Development Inc. has agreed to buy 11,860 net acres in Lea County of southern New Mexico, directly north of the Red Hills area, from fellow Denver firm GMT Exploration Co. for $350 million in cash. Source: News

Western Energy Alliance Pres. Kathleen Sgamma called on the US Senate to repeal the US Bureau of Land Management’s methane emissions limits before time runs out under the Congressional Review Act. Source: News

The Republic of Uzbekistan has broken ground on a 5 million-tonne/year grassroots refinery to be built in the former Soviet state’s eastern Jizzakh region. Source: News