Fitzgerald Grant Prideco Inc. has appointedMatt Fitzgeraldas senior vice president and CFO. Fitzgerald joined Grant Prideco from Veritas DGC Inc., where he was executive vice president, CFO, and treasurer.

Michael Flemingjoined Geotrace in January as area manager, Middle East, based in Cairo. Prior to joining Geotrace, Fleming spent 25 years with Western Geophysical.

The ConocoPhillips board of directors has elected Jim Copeland as a new outside director. Copeland, 59, retired as CEO of Deloitte & Touche on May 31, 2003.

Vincent Swift Energy Co. has appointedBruce H. Vincentto president and Robert J. Banksto vice president – international operations of wholly-owned subsidiary Swift Energy International Inc.

McDermott International Inc. has namedThomas C. Schievelbeinto the company's board of directors. He will be a member of the audit committee and the compensation committee.

Continental Energy Corp. has appointedJames D. Eger,a specialist in international oil exploration, as its new corporate vice president and chief information officer, based in Dallas, Texas.

P. John Aldred,chairman and CEO of Enerflex Systems Ltd. has announced the resignation of the company's vice president and CFO, Dale J. Hohm.

Myla Dixonhas been named marketing director at Foster Marketing Communications in Houston, President George Foster announced. Dixon joined Foster Marketing in June 2002 as an account assistant. She has provided account services, media buying, and electronic marketing support as well as market development for the oil and gas industry.

Specialist petroleum and well engineering company Frontier Group, has appointedJan Brinkhorstas engineering manager, based in the company's Aberdeen head office.

Smith Knight has namedH. A. "Hoss" Smithto Midwestern region sales representative and Conrad Lee to Southwestern region sales representative.

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PennWell Corp., publisher of Oil & Gas Journal, Offshore, and Oil, Gas and Petrochem Equipment, has launched a new publication called Oil & Gas Financial Journal. A preview issue of Oil & Gas Financial Journal premiered at the Howard Weil Energy Conference in New Orleans on March 28 and will be available at the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston this month.

TTE International Ltd., part of the TTE Management & Technical Training Group,has won a contract to provide a five-year training program for BP Caspian Ltd., which operates the Azeri-Chirag-Gunashi oilfields. The company will operate a newly built training center and develop and deliver specialist curriculum materials.

Total E&P UKhas awarded Subsea 7 a $70-million contract for the Frigg UK pipeline subsea bypasses of platforms Frigg TP1 and MCP-01 in the North Sea to allow for their future decommissioning.

Amerada Hessplaced an order with Kværner Oilfield Products (KOP)for a 5 x 2 10Ksi horizontal tree and EH MUX control system for an upcoming subsea tieback in the Gulf of Mexico. The tree and controls system, rated for 2,000 ft of water, is similar to the system KOP installed for Amerada Hess at Garden Banks block 201 last year.

Dikema TOP,supplier of structural steel to onshore and offshore projects worldwide, has changed its name to Arcelor Projects International.

C & C Technologies (Asia-Pacific) Pte Ltd. in Singapore has signed a contract to supply Romonawith C-Nav equipment, a new concept in GPS positioning, and correction signals. C & C will deliver C-Nav equipment to Romona's offices in Sakhalin, Vietnam, Thailand, and the Middle East to support their international operations.

Tideland Maritime Systems and Shine Micro Inc. have signed an agreement naming Tideland Maritime Systemsthe exclusive and worldwide distributor of an aid to navigation AIS device, designed according to IALA recommendations. Named the V-Track AtoN, it forms part of the Tideland Maritime, V-Track suite of products that are designed to aid the mariner and assist in port vessel movement and security.

Brazil has appointedFrank's International Brazilas the authorized and exclusive agent in Brazil for the inspection, testing, minor repair, and re-certification of its complete line of high pressure drilling and service application flexible pipes.

The Houma, Louisiana, business unit ofWood Group Production Services,part of international energy services company John Wood Group PLC, has moved to 182 Equity Boulevard in Houma, where all its operations have been combined at a single location. The new 20,800-sq-ft facility is three times the size of the previous sites.

Royal Vopak,a global provider of liquid chemical and oil product storage and value-added logistics, has chosen Oaenterprise,a component-based control and operational intelligence system, to automate new storage tanks within its Vlaardingen site in the Netherlands.

Cooper Cameron Corp. has consolidated its two compression-related divisions, Cooper Energy Services and Cooper Turbocompressor, into one division named Cooper Compression. The new division encompasses reciprocating and centrifugal compression equipment and aftermarket parts and services, and serves customers in the energy industry and a variety of process and manufacturing industries.

Emerson Process Managementand the process, power, and offshore division of Intergraph Corp. have jointly announced the signing of a marketing and supply agreement. Under terms of the contract, Intergraph will supply its INtools lifecycle instrumentation engineering software to Emerson for distribution to its customers through DeltaV digital automation system implementations. The DeltaV system powers Emerson's PlantWeb digital plant architecture to reduce user's capital and operations costs.