Songa Offshore SE announced the appointment of Mark Bessell to the position of COO. Bessell will report to CEO Bjornar Iversen and will start in his new position 21st October 2013. He commenced in the industry with Sedco and remained with Transocean for over 20 years where he held a number of senior positions within Operations, Projects, Technical and HR.

More recently he held Senior Vice President positions with Ocean Rig.