People
Tap Oil Ltd. has appointedBob Cassie as new ventures manager.
Geoff Barlow, Husky Energy’s vice president and CFO, has resigned. Barlow will remain with Husky until Aug. 7, managing the completion of the 2Q interim statements and regulatory filings.
CodaOctopus Products Inc. has appointedBill Charbonneau vice president Americas. He will lead a team based in Florida.
Knight Oil Tools has namedTerry Oliver corporate account representative. Oliver will be responsible for the company’s client relationships in the Houston area.
Bergeron
Knight Well Services has namedRene Bergeron project engineering manager. Bergeron will oversee the company’s plug and abandonment projects.
Gaz de France subsidiary, GDF Britain has appointedRene Montaz-Rosset managing director. He replaces Mark Hughes. Montaz-Rosset will be responsible for GDF Britain’s holdings in more than 50 British licenses, including 15 in producing fields.
Corrosion Resistant Alloys has hiredWanda Godrey as operations manager. The company has also added Julie Jakubson as OCTG manager, Matt Pond as manager of business development, and Damian Ward as international and product development manager.
Parker Drilling Co. has appointedDavid Mannon president and COO. Mannon succeeds Robert Parker Jr., who will resume the role of chairman and CEO.
Energy Partners Ltd. has namedSteve Longon senior vice president, drilling and engineering. Longon will oversee all aspects of the company’s drilling and engineering functions.
Knowledge Systems has namedJamey Webster as CEO. Webster previously served as the company’s COO and replaces founder, chairman, and current CEO, Jim Bridges.
Tap Oil has namedRobert Hall as exploration manager. Hall replaces Peter Stickland, who has been appointed Tap Oil’s deputy CEO.
Scorpion Offshore co-foundersErland Bassoe and Jonathon Fairbanks have retired from the Scorpion board. They will be replaced by Pat Herbert, who will join Scorpion’s board of directors effective Aug. 1.
Enterprise Products Partners has namedChristopher Skoog senior vice president. Skoog will lead the company’s newly formed natural gas services and marketing group. He will be responsible for all of Enterprise’s existing natural gas supply and marketing activities, including supply, origination, and optimization.
Santos Ltd. has namedDavid Knox executive vice president, growth businesses.
John Fast, chief legal counsel and head of external affairs at BHP Billiton, will retire in the new financial year. Peter De Zwart, regional counsel Americas, will assume responsibilities until Fast’s permanent replacement is named.
C & C Technologies has appointedMelissa Wood marketing manager for the geophysical survey division.
Delmar System Inc has appointedLynn Parker in executive sales. Parker will be responsible for Delmar’s deepwater customers in rig mooring-related services. He will be based in Houston.
Hess Corp. has namedBill Drennen senior vice president, global exploration and new ventures. Drennen, who replaces Bob Strode, will be based in Houston.
Santacana
ABB has namedEnrique Santacana as region manager of ABB North America and president and CEO of ABB Inc. USA. Santacana, who will be based in Norwalk, Connecticut, replaces Dinesh Paliwal.
AMEC has appointedTerri Ivers president of AMEC Paragon. Ivers will be responsible for overseeing the company’s daily operations, safety performance, and customer delivery.
Short
Pipeline Engineering has appointedGordon Short director of technical development. Short will be responsible for developing PE’s R&D activities, focusing on development and commercialization of new technology.
Total S.A. has appointedCatherine Enck to be in charge of relations with nongovernmental organizations and civil society organizations and Isabelle Desmet to be in charge of media relations.
Dr. Stuart R. McGill, senior vice president of Exxon Mobil Corp. has retired after more than 38 years of service. Since Oct. 2004, McGill has been responsible for ExxonMobil’s upstream operations, which include exploration, development, production, gas and power marketing, and upstream research
Petrohawk Energy Corp. has appointedMark J. Mize, currently vice president, chief accounting officer, and controller, as executive vice president, CFO, and treasurer, replacing retiring Shane M. Bayless. Bayless has resigned to pursue an opportunity with a private company.
CTC Marine Projects Ltd., part of the DeepOcean group, has appointed two new senior managers. In a promotion of two of established team members, CTC has namedJake Tompkins business development director with overall responsibility for sales and marketing and Nigel Ward commercial director responsible for contracts and proposals.
Offshore Hydrocarbon Mapping (OHM) has appointedSteve Hunt COO. Hunt will direct the company’s sales and marketing activities as well as CSEM survey and data library services.
InterMoor Inc. has namedDon Hardin vice president of projects and engineering. Based in Houston, Hardin will be responsible for managing and overseeing InterMoor’s major projects and engineering, worldwide.
MCS has namedRobert Bayesto to its software team. Based in Houston, Bayesto will further develop the MCS software business in the Gulf of Mexico.
CETCO has appointedWill Fortenberry director of business development and Daniel Wilde product manger. They join CETCO’s commercial team based in Aberdeen.
American Electric Technologies Inc. has recruitedJim Ingram as segment manager in charge of the pipeline, refinery, and industrial markets.
BHP Billiton Petroleum has appointedStephen O’Rourke president of global exploration. Based in Houston, O’Rourke will direct the company’s worldwide oil and gas exploration activities.
Superior Offshore International Inc. has appointedDavid Weinhoffer vice president of business development. Weinhoffer will oversee and manage the day-to-day operations of the sales, marketing, and commercial departments.
Repsol YPF has appointedMiquel Martinez COO, reporting directly to Antonio Brufau, chairman and CEO. Martinez has responsibility for the control and coordination of all the company’s business units.
Companies
Transocean Inc. and GlobalSantaFe Corp. have agreed to merge. The combined company will be named Transocean Inc.
The transaction is expected to close by the end of 2007, pending shareholders’ approval, regulatory clearance, and receipt of funds under committed financing.
Oceanteam Power & Umbilical ASA has agreed with the curator of Bohlen & Doyen to purchase the marine cable installation assets of Submarine Cable & Pipe GmbH & Co., a subsidiary of the Bohlen & Doyen Group of Wiesmoor, Germany.
ABS has launched guides for operations in the North Sea and arctic regions. The ABS Guide for Mobile Offshore Units Operating on Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS) addresses the technical requirements of the Petroleum Safety Authority Norway (PSA). ABS also issued Guide for Vessels Operating in Low Temperature Environments.
Integrated Subsea Services has acquired Andrews Survey for £9 million ($18.3 million). Andrews Survey is an independent survey company specializing in seabed surveys and positioning services and is active in subsea construction, trenching, and pipeline inspection by ROV.
Acteon has acquired three companies from the Aberdeen-based Craig Group. They are Seatronics, International Mooring Systems, and Chain Corp. International.
Acteon also has acquired Pacific Management Technologies Inc., which will be renamed InterAct PMTI. Based in Ventura, California, and in Houston, PMTI offers project management services in three areas: production facilities and operations; drilling and production services; and decommissioning.
Weatherford International Ltd. has acquired Reservoir Laboratories AS, a player in the core and reservoir fluid analysis sector of the oil and gas industry. ResLab provides reservoir laboratory services and core analysis testing in the 10 locations it operates around the world, primarily in the Eastern Hemisphere, but including Mexico and Brazil.
Sealift is acquiring Offshore Kinematics and Ocean Dynamics, under a share plus $15.7 million cash offer. Sealift already owns the Dockwise group of transportation and installation companies and expects numerous synergies as a result of acquisition.
Schlumberger has acquired Milan-based Geosystem, a provider of land and marine electromagnetics and seismic imaging services. Electromagnetics is a subsurface measurement used by the oil and gas industry for enhanced reservoir description.
HB Rentals has secured three new contracts from operators in the US and Mexican sectors of the Gulf of Mexico. The first contract, worth $1.3 million is for CrossMar Group’s ABS-class work barge. Pride Offshore ordered a unit worth $350,000, and Shell-owned pressure drilling specialist At Balance signed a $100-million deal for a unit used on an inshore work barge.
Houston-basedProserv Offshore Llc. has acquired Houston-based Twachtman, Snyder & Byrd Inc., a provider of well abandonment and decommissioning services to the international offshore oil and gas market.
Noble Denton Group has acquired Poseidon Maritime for $4.9 million. Noble says it will retain all staff.
RigNet Inc. is expanding its Secure Oil Information Link (SOIL) to Houston. The new network node in Houston will connect to SOIL nodes in Stavanger, Norway, and Aberdeen, Scotland. This will create the first-ever global partner network for the oil and gas industry, according to RigNet.
Steel Pipe and Tube Consultants has been renamed SPT Energy Group. The company provides certified third-party inspection personnel, pipe-end measuring services, and material tracking to the pipeline industry.
National Oillwell Varco has launched a new product, the Shaffer 13 5/8-in. (35-cm) LXT Ram blowout preventer. The new line of BOPs features boltless door technology, which reduces maintenance downtime and increases personnel safety, the company says. The product is available in 5,000, 10,000, and 15,000 psi versions.
Chevron Corp. has formed a research alliance with The University of Texas at Austin to develop new technologies to increase the amount of oil recovered from mature and challenging reservoirs. Under the alliance, Chevron subsidiary Chevron Energy Technology Co. will provide up to $5 million over the next five years to The University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering.
Tideway B.V. in the Netherlands and Norway’s Oceanteam Power & Umbilical ASA have signed a five-year cooperation agreement to provide turnkey solutions for major cable-related and wind farm projects.
Aker Kværner has acquired 50% of Phoenix Polymers International Ltd. Aberdeen-based Phoenix develops and manufactures buoyancy and polyurethane products for the oil and gas sector and is a supplier of floatation elements to Aker Kværner’s deepwater marine drilling riser projects. The company will continue to trade under the Phoenix name, Aker Kværner says.
MetaCarta Inc. has signed an agreement with IHS Inc. MetaCarta will enhance its energy geographic data module (GDM) to provide accurate and up-to-date information for energy-related subjects specific to a particular geographic location. Geologists and other E&P analysts using MetaCarta geographic text search (GTS) and GTS geOdrive will be able to search for information such as blocks, licenses, oil fields, wells, and basins found in IHS databases using the just-released MetaCarta IHS global oil and gas GDM, the company says.
WesternGeco has introduced dynamic spread control (DSC), an automated vessel, source, and streamer steering technology for offshore seismic surveys. DSC will be added to the Q-Marine technology platform, which includes steerable streamers, single-sensor acquisition, dense acoustic positioning network, and calibrated marine sources.
Wah Seong Corp. Bhd. is set to build Asia’s first deepwater pipe coating plant in Kuantan Pahang. Construction of the facility was to begin at the end of June 2007 at the company’s existing pipe coating plant in Kuantan. Completion is scheduled for early 2008.
Floating production specialistSevan Marine is set to acquire 100% of the shares of Mator. The latter provides services in primary separation, gas handling, and water treatment.
Winch specialistOdim is planning to acquire Stavanger-based JMC for $17.22 million. Odim hopes to combine JMC’s expertise with its own proprietary CTCU technology to create a leading player in automated handling systems for deepwater operations.
Z-Seis and READ have combined their Crosswell Imaging and Microseismic Frac Monitoring technologies to provide a hybrid process called FracView that supplies in-depth data on fracing operations. FracView provides an image of frac wing aerial extent and height, generated by READ’s microseismic frac monitoring system.
Ramunia Holdings Bhd. is investing $101 million to upgrade and expand its yard at Ramunia in Johor state in peninsular Malaysia. The company is acquiring additional yard space from its own unit Ramunia Energy & Marine Corp. Sdn. Bhd. for the project. Ramunia also has formed a partnership with Singapore’s Mackra Pte. Ltd. to set up a tube rolling facility at the yard.
