People
Chris Sherertz was named Vice President of Upstream Business for Alliance Engineering.
Guillaume Cambois, previously Vice President of Technology, was appointed Executive Vice President of CGG Data Processing and Reservoir Services.
Victor de La Rosa was named Operations Manager for BJ Process and Pipeline Services in Venezuela.
Nish Patel was named Managing Director of Alfa Laval UK.
The Joint Oceanographic Institutions named Dr. Daniel Weill as the new Director of the Ocean Drilling Program.
Singapore Petroleum Company appointed Timothy Ong Teck Mong and Dr. Chin Wei-Li Audrey Marie as independent directors to its Board.
Parker Drilling Company's Board of Directors elected W. Kirk Brassfield as Vice President and Controller of Parker Drilling.
Phillips Petroleum Company Board of Directors elected W.B. (Bill) Berry as Senior Vice President of Exploration and Production Eurasia-Middle East.
Derek S. Rowe was appointed Main Board member of the North Sea Production Company Limited and remains Projects Director for Odebrecht Oil & Gas.
Oceaneering appointed Susan M. Morgan as Director of Strategic Planning.
Andy Bolton of Coflexip Stena Offshore Asia Pacific was elected Chairman of the International Marine Contractors Association. New Hon. Secretary is Greg Eller, ROV Manager at Stolt Offshore. - Coflexip Stena Offshore announced that Coflexip Stena Offshore International was awarded part of the mooring and installation package for the Bonga field development.
Kathleen Kono was appointed Vice President, Global Cooperation of ASTM.
Marc Labbey is the new President of Technopole Brest-Iroise.
Peter Sykes of Seatex becomes Deputy General Manager. John Bennett becomes Product Sales Manager, and Derek Giles becomes Technical Support Engineer.
British Maritime Technology named Phil Thompson Executive Director of Seapower Europe.
Anadarko Petroleum Corporation promoted Bill Sullivan to Executive Vice President, Exploration and Production; Rex Alman is promoted to Senior Vice President, Domestic Operations; Jim Emme was named Vice President, Exploration; Bob Daniels was promoted to Vice President, Canada; Bruce Stover was promoted to Senior Vice President, Worldwide Business Development; Michael D. Cochran, Ph.D., was promoted to Senior Vice President, Strategy and Planning; Richard J. Sharples was promoted to Senior Vice President, Marketing and Minerals.
Contracts
IZAR was awarded a contract to build a 900,000-bbl-FPSO (floating, production, storage, and offloading) unit for Belgium's company Exmar Offshore.
Fifth Ring now works with Reeves Oilfield Services to promote its portfolio of well logging products and serv-ices to industry.
Baker Energy and Panaco, Inc. contracted to operate produc-tion properties in the Gulf of Mexico in a $2.4 million agreement.
BJ Services Company's Well Services Division for Europe and Africa will provide Ranger Oil Côte D'Ivoire SARL cementing and engineering services offshore Côte D'Ivoire.
Enterprise Oil do Brasil and partners contracted with BJ Tubular Services to provide well services offshore Brazil.
Bardex Corporation and Grootint BV, in alliance with Rig Design Services Ltd., contracted to use a hydraulic rig skidding system on the Esso Norge AS Ringhorne platform.
Stolt Offshore and Shell Petroleum Development Company Nigeria contracted for Shell's Offshore Gas Gathering System pipelay.
PanCanadian Petroleum Limited and Ocean Rig ASA, contributed a combined $2 million to the Province of Nova Scotia to be used in support of offshore training programs.
The U.S. Navy awarded Global Divers Division of Global Industries Offshore, LLC a project to use Global's personnel and 1500 diving system to support the USS Monitor salvage.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Baker Hughes Inc. acquired OCRE Ltd. from Maritime Well Service, a division of Aker Maritime.
Devon will acquire Mitchell Energy & Development for $3.5 billion.
Weatherford International, Inc. acquired Brit Bit Limited, based in Aberdeen, Scotland.
Hanover Compressor plans to acquire Schlumberger's compression assets for $761 million.
Stolt Offshore and the Paragon companies will acquire Ingerop Litwin from VINCI.
Union Drilling acquired all assests of Resource Naturelle Ralex, Inc.
ENSR International acquired a 26% interest in RSK Environment.
Petroleum Geo-Services ASA acquired Diamond Geophysical Service Corporation.
Companies
Baker Atlas, a division of Baker Hughes Incorporated, and TomoSeis, a division of Core Laboratories L.P. will jointly provide crosswell seismic services to the global oil and gas industry.
Petrobras International Finance Company Ltd., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Petróleo Brasileiro S.A., priced a U.S.$500 million senior note issue offered under rule 144A to institutional investors and under regulation S to offshore accounts.
Petrobras will produce more than 11,000MW for Brazil by 2005 through the new thermoelectric plants run on natural gas.
OilfieldCapital.com is now EnergyBridge.com.
PGS acquired more than 40,000 sq. km of 3D data over some of Brazil's prospective offshore areas.
BJ Process and Pipeline Services opened a new operations headquarters in Calgary, Alberta, for the Pipeline Inspection Services group.
Halliburton Energy Services extended its satellite communications network into Africa.
PanCanadian Petroleum Limited announced the terms under which it will participate in the reorganization of Canadian Pacific Limited.
Genesis Oil & Gas Consulting, a UK affiliate of Coflexip Stena Offshore, is expanding to Paris, France.
Shell International Explor-ation and Production selected ESRI software as the standard suite of Intranet and desktop GIS products.
Mustang Engineering, Inc. formed a Compliant Structures Group that specializes in many aspects of compliant piled towers.
Coflexip Stena Offshore announced that Coflexip Stena Offshore International was awarded part of the mooring and installation package for the Bonga field development.
