BUSINESS BRIEFS

Lambert

Deepwater Specialists Inc. has appointedTrey Lambert as president. Lambert will be responsible for overseeing the company’s day-to-day operations and developing its business development strategy.

BJ Services has appointedJohn Anderson as region VP - Europe and West Africa for well services. In his new role, he will be working closely with country managers throughout the region to oversee all well services operations, marketing initiatives, and financial management.

Fugro Gravity & Magnetic Services has appointedMark Weber as president and

Dr. Luiz Braga as VP of global business development.

Petsec Energy has appointedMichael L. Harvey as a non-executive director on the company’s board of directors. He also is a non-executive director of the listed Norwegian company Scorpion Offshore.

ABS has appointedRear Admiral Craig E. Bone to the newly created position of VP of corporate programs. He will be located in the society’s satellite executive office in Paramus, New Jersey.

Occidental Petroleum VP and controllerJim A. Leonard has retired after more than 30 years of service.

Cudd Well Control has appointedAlex Korzenewski as a senior well control engineer.

Caesar Systems has namedAlan Jaschke as client services manager to enhance the company’s strategy formulation, asset modeling, and business planning advisory services to the upstream oil and gas industry.

Lawrence

BIS Salamis has appointedMaureen Lawrence as training and competency coordinator for inspection. Lawrence previously worked within BIS Salamis’ environmental and decommissioning department.

Broadpoint has appointedJerome DeCuir as VP of engineering.

StatoilHydro’s executive VP for exploration and production Norway,Tore Torvund, and executive VP for projects, Morten Ruud, have resigned from their present posts and the company’s corporate executive committee. Øystein Michelsen and Helga Nes have been appointed acting executive VPs for exploration and production Norway and projects, respectively.

Dominion Gas has appointedDoug Crighton as MD, effective Nov. 3. He will be based in the company’s Aberdeen office, but with a remit to look after the needs of Dominion’s operations in the UK, Norway, West Africa, and the Caspian. The company also has appointed Russell Davies as projects director. He will be responsible for overall ownership and management of the ongoing projects associated with the company’s growth – both in the UK and internationally. Neil Potter, formerly of RB Farquhar, will take up the role of financial director from Bryan Park who will move into a new role as CFO for the group, all with effect from early November.

Triton Group has announced a major operations restructure. The restructure includes the appointment of a new group COO and the creation of three regional director posts to oversee the performance of each business.Dave Sturrock will have full responsibility for Triton Group’s operational performance worldwide. He also will assume the role of regional director Europe, Middle East, and West Africa until a new appointment can be made. Bruce Lokay has been appointed regional director for Asia-Pacific, based in Singapore. Meanwhile, former VP of business development at Triton Group, Steve Rampton, has taken on the role of regional director Americas.

FMC Technologies has named president and CEOPeter D. Kinnear as chairman of the company’s board of directors. He succeeds Joseph H. Netherland who served as chairman since March 2007. Netherland will continue to serve as a non-independent member of FMC Technologies’ board of directors.

ConocoPhillips has appointedJohn Carrig as COO; Jim Gallogly as executive VP of exploration and production; Willie Chiang as senior VP of refining, marketing, and transportation; Greg Goff as senior VP, commercial; Sig Cornelius as senior VP of finance, and CFO. The company has also named Jeff Sheets senior VP of planning and strategy. Fran Vallejo has been appointed VP and treasurer, finance. John Lowe has been named assistant to the CEO.

ODIM ASA has appointedIdar Hatløy as senior VP of global sales and marketing. He is responsible for development of the company’s international sales network.

Wishart

Noble Denton has appointedJohn Wishart as group MD designate effective Jan. 1, 2009. He succeeds David Sutton who will assume the role of director of strategy, mergers, and acquisitions after a three-month handover period.

Afren Côte d’Ivoire has appointedJack M. McFarland as director of operations. McFarland is responsible for the company’s oil and gas operational activities in Côte d’Ivoire, including optimizing day-to-day production levels, controlling field capital and operational budgets, and managing the allocation of resources to meet the priorities of the business.

Veripos has appointedGordon Spalding as research, development, and production director with responsibility for future product developments and control of key technologies. Veripos also has appointed Phil Milne as GM with additional responsibility for implementation of the company’s worldwide health, safety, environment, and quality procedures as well as management of its Europe-Africa-Middle East region.

InterMoor has appointedRandy Mautz as quality, health, safety, and environment director, and

Chuck Fontenot as quality assurance and quality control manager.

Caesar Systems has namedAlan Jaschke client services manager. In his new role, Jaschke will enhance the company’s strategy formulation, asset modeling, and business planning advisory services for the upstream oil and gas industry.

Parker Drilling has electedGary R. King, CEO of Dubai Natural Resources World, to the company’s board of directors.

Keenan

Knight Fishing Services has appointedWilliam “Bill” Keenan as VP - Gulf Coast.

Sevan Marine has appointedOskar Mykland as CFO, effective Jan. 1, 2009.

Tritech has appointedSimon Beswick as MD, replacing Richard Marsh. Marsh will become vice-chairman of The Tritech Group focusing on the development of new subsea products and acquisitions in the subsea sector.

IHC Engineering Business has promotedMartin Bingham to director of technology. The company also has promoted Andy Eaton to director of production and Andrew Stevenson to director of sales.

Polarcus has appointedRichard Price as VP of marketing for North and South America. Price is responsible for establishing the Polarcus brand across North and South America and for building engagement with potential clients and partners representing both domestic and international interests.

Baker Hughes has appointedClifton (Clif) Triplett as VP and CIO.

Pride International has appointedRandall D. (Randy) Stilley as CEO of Pride’s mat-supported jackup rig business.

Geomodeling Technology Corp. has appointedJeff Donnellan as VP of research and development and CIO. The company has also appointed John Sherman as VP of marketing and business development.

VAALCO Energy has appointedGregory R. Hullinger as CFO. Hullinger succeeds W. Russell Scheirman, who will continue as VAALCO’s president and will assume the additional position of COO.

James P. Kowske has been appointed as president of Gremada Industries subsidiary, Laser Cladding Services.

Reflex Marine has appointedDavid Brittan to the company’s board. Brittan previously held the position of worldwide well engineering manager for BG Group and served a coordinating role on the giant Karachaganak project in Kazakhstan.

Company News

Cameron has acquired Guiberson Well Service System from Weatherford International Ltd.

Swiber Offshore Construction has formed a joint venture with Rawabi Holding. Under the agreement, Swiber Offshore Construction and Rawabi Holding will establish a 50/50 joint venture company, Rawabi Swiber Offshore Construction Co. based in Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia. The two will cooperate to provide services for offshore construction and to bid for engineering, procurement, construction, installation, and commissioning projects in Gulf Cooperation Countries.

The government of Mozambique has awardedPetronas and Empresa Nacional de Hidrocarbonetos de Moçambique the exploration and production concession contract for two exploration blocks.

Louisiana Economic Development Corp. has awardedGulf Island Fabrication $2.3 million in performance-based financial assistance from the Economic Development Award Program to expand its Houma, Louisiana facility.

Halliburton has acquired Pinnacle Technologies, a provider of real-time tiltmeter and microseismic mapping and reservoir monitoring services.

Caledus has established an office and manufacturing base in Dubai. The company has appointed John Hanton as Middle East regional manager to head up the office.

Afren has entered into a strategic alliance with Sojitz Corp. to jointly pursue acquisition opportunities in Africa. The strategic alliance will run for an initial period of three years. Afren will identify material and strategic assets which it believes should be acquired by the parties and as appropriate. Sojitz will provide financial support to the strategic alliance.

The government of Eritrea has signed two agreements withDefba Oil Share Co. for oil exploration activities in two blocks of the Eritrean northern territorial waters in the Red Sea.

Pacific Energy Resources has been granted an additional extension by the state of Alaska to provide contractual evidence of a heavy-lift vessel necessary to transport a jackup rig to the Cook Inlet, Alaska for the 2009 drilling season.

Diamond Offshore’s one and a half year, $275-million letter of intent for the semisubmersible rig Ocean Star has been canceled, according to analyst Raymond James and Associates.

Wood Group ESP has opened a new service facility in Bogota, Colombia, to overhaul, assemble, and test electric submersible pumps. The facility is the first of its kind for Wood Group in the country.

Halliburton has opened a manufacturing and technology center in Singapore. This center will produce electronic sensors used in the company’s logging-while-drilling tools and openhole wireline logging services. The facility also serves as a repair and maintenance facility for drilling tools used throughout the region.

Triton Group has formed a new company, VMAX Technologies, to lead the sale and development of simulation software for subsea operations. The VMAX business will operate out of Florida, Houston, Aberdeen, Macae, and Singapore. The company expects to employ up to 30 people by the end of 2009.

Grenland has awardedCapricorn, the exploration-focused arm of Cairn Energy, a 92% operated interest in Cape Farewell 1 and 2 blocks offshore southern Greenland. The remaining interest in each of these blocks is held by Nunaoil A/S, the national oil company of Greenland.

Ecopetrol S.A. has agreed with two US subsidiaries of BP for the exploration of hydrocarbons in the Gulf of Mexico outer continental shelf. The joint venture will search for natural gas at depths exceeding 20,000 ft (6,096 m).

Swiber Offshore Construction has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Petrovietnam Construction Joint Stock Corp. (PVC) to set up a joint stock company (JSC) in Vietnam.

Falck Nutec, global provider of safety and survival training, is expanding its operations into Africa by opening a new training facility in cooperation with local Nigerian partner, Prime Atlantic.

StatoilHydro has assigned the management of its technology corporate venture activities to a special purpose company, Energy Capital Management AS. The new management company will be led by Arne Frøiland, former VP of StatoilHydro Corporate Venture.

DONG Energy and license partners Bayerngas and Faroe Petroleum have submitted the field development plan for the Norwegian oil and gas field Trym.

AlMansoori Specialized Engineering (MSE) has launched AlMansoori Petroleum Industries, a holding company that will be exclusively focused on promoting opportunities for manufacturing a range of products for the oil and gas industry from a new base in Abu Dhabi.

Abu Dhabi National Oil Co.(ADNOC) and Shell Abu Dhabi have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) under which Shell will evaluate potential joint exploration, development, and production of offshore deep gas fields prospects in Abu Dhabi with ADNOC.

Aker Yards has changed its name to STX Europe. The name change comes after South Korean-based STX Business Group’s purchase of a 92.46% ownership share in the company in August 2008. Effective today, Aker Yards and all its subsidiaries will share the common brand STX Europe.

Marathon Oil has completed the $416-million sale of its non-operated interests in the Heimdal infrastructure, related producing fields, and associated undeveloped acreage offshore Norway to Centrica.

Ocean Specialists, Inc. (OSI) and T Soja & Associates (TSA) have merged.

EnerMech has acquired Bjørge ASA’s crane division. EnerMech will take over all contracts, equipment, and personnel connected to Bjørge’s crane activities in Stavanger and Haugesund, the company says. Bjørge’s crane division head, Trond Møller, has been appointed GM of the new company, EnerMech A/S.

Marathon Oil’s board of directors has sanctioned two Gulf of Mexico development projects, Droshky and Ozona. The board approved a total project cost of $1.3 billion for the Droshky development and $300 million for the Ozona development.