Jaime Kammerzell • Gulf of Mexico Editor
People
ABS has namedTodd Grovepresident of ABS Americas Division, effective May 1. He will replace Robert E. Kramekwho will assume the role of president and COO of ABS at that time U. Inge K Hansenhas been appointed group president and CEO of the new Aker Kværner, one of three groups being created as a result of the restructuring of the current Aker Kværner. Hansen's previous position was acting CEO with Statoil. The new Statoil CEO will be Helge Lund, who was CEO in Aker Kværner U. Anadarko Petroleum Corp. has hired Robert K. Reevesas senior vice president, corporate affairs and law. Reeves will be responsible for the company's legal, government relations, public affairs, information technology, and administration functions.
Victor Schmidt,Exploration Editor of Offshore magazine, has been named Secretary of the Houston Geological Society U. FMC Technologies Inc. has made three key executive appointments. Peter D. Kinnearis executive vice president, with worldwide responsibility for FMC Technologies' Energy Production Systems and Energy Processing Systems businesses. John T. Grempand Tore Halvorsenare vice presidents, with continuing responsibility for FMC Technologies' Energy Production Systems business. Gremp is responsible for the Western Hemisphere, based in Houston, and Halvorsen is responsible for the Eastern Hemisphere, based in Kongsberg, Norway.
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Stupp Bros. Inc. has announcedJohn P. Stupp Jr., president of the Stupp Corp. pipe manufacturing division in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been elected president by the board of directors U. R. Philip Stupp Jr., executive vice president of SBI and president of Hammert's Iron Works, a building steel contractor in St. Louis, has been elected secretary and assistant treasurer. Robert P. Stupp has been elected chairman of the board of Stupp Bros. Inc.
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CRC-Evans Pipeline International has namedGregory D. Laake as its chief financial officer. Laake joined CRC-Evans from National Oilwell U. John Ebbernhas joined Geotrace as business development manager, based in Aberdeen. John brings a background in both the service company and oil company sectors to this role, having worked in the industry for 29 years in various capacities U. IHS Energy has named Ron Mobedas president and COO of the company. He has 22 years experience working for Schlumberger in various roles.
Mitchell J. ProvostPE and Kevin M. RaatzPE have joined EDG Inc., with Provost named a project manager and Raatz named a project engineer.
Wood Group Pressure Control, a subsidiary of John Wood Group PLC, has announced two new appointments. Reza Hajjari has joined the company as vice president of manufacturing, while Robert (Bob) Duran Jr. has been appointed US sales manager U.Robert E. Rose, chairman of the board of directors of GlobalSantaFe Corp., retired from his role as chairman. Rose engineered the merger of Global Marine Inc. and Santa Fe Corp. He became chairman of the board of the combined company upon the closing of that transaction in November 2001.
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Companies
GE Energywill supply two compression modules to Petrobras Netherlands BVfor a new floating production unit (FPU) in the Campos basin, off Brazil. The new FPU, designated P52, will be the largest offshore facility in Brazil to extract oil and gas in 2,000 m of water. It is expected to produce 180,000 b/d, or 10% of the total national production, plus 9 MMcm/d of associated gas U. Knowledge Systemshas agreed to supply its geopressure analysis software to Baker Hughesfor real time geopressure and wellbore stability analysis at the wellsite U. Tesla Offshoreis a new geophysical and marine construction company, formed by former KC Offshoreleaders. The new company's geophysical group will provide hazard and archaeological surveys for drill site, platform locations, and preliminary pipeline route designs.
RPS Group Plc,a European environmental consultancy, has acquired the Troy-Ikodagroup of companies. Troy-Ikoda joins RPS Hydrosearch within the RPS Energy Services Division U. Oil industry technology company Ødegaard is establishing an office in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to meet demand for its services from the E&P industry in Southeast Asia. The company has appointed Phil Bealeas its regional director with responsibility for expanding Ødegaard's established reservoir characterisation expertise in extracting rock properties from seismic data using well log analysis, seismic inversion, and time-lapse prediction.
Fugrohas placed a major order with Sonardyne Internationalfor the supply of integrated Long BaseLine (LBL) and Ultra-Short BaseLine (USBL) Fusion acoustic positioning systems. These will be used to support the services that Fugro will provide during development of the Azeri Chirag Guneshli (ACG) project in the Caspian Sea U. The Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) has purchased two Sonardyne Fusion USBL acoustic tracking systems to provide high accuracy subsea positioning for its two deepwater ROVs – Ventana and Tiburon U. The Southampton Oceanographic Centre, has ordered a Fusion acoustic positioning system and ROV-Homer target relocation system from Sonardyne to provide high accuracy subsea positioning for Isis, the UK's first deepwater science-class ROV.
Yokogawa Electric Corp. will supply the complete upstream measurement and control facilities for the Sakhalin II crude oil and natural gas development project in the Sakhalin Region of the Russian Far East.
ABBin Norway has secured new contracts worth $45 million for delivery of complete electric propulsion systems to two icebreakers to be built for CJSV Sevmorneftegaz by the Norwegian shipyard Havyard Leirvik, and four platform supply vessels to be built in China for Groupe Bourbon by Zhejiang Shipbuilding.
Weatherford International Ltd. has acquired Edinburgh PetroleumServices Ltd. EPS produces intelligent asset management software, which allows networks of wells and production facilities to be configured so as to deliver maximum hydrocarbon value.
Energy development delivery specialistCSLhas formed a wells division. The new group targets well construction and performance management, complementing the existing services of delivery management of host and subsea facilities.
Tronic Ltd., a subsidiary of oilfield services provider Expro International Group PLC,has secured multiple contract awards for the provision of subsea electrical connector systems to be deployed on the Santosoperated Mutineer-Exeter field development.
