People in industry

Kerr-McGee Corp. elected Dave Hager corporate VP of exploration and production, responsible for worldwide exploration and production team.

Ken Baker, Joe Callahan and Daniel McCaw joined Superior Energy Services as staff engineers for its well intervention group.

Jean Claude Bourdon was named managing director of Dietswell Engineering.

David Hudgins and Jarad Stockton joined Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Chandler Engineering Co. L.L.C. They will assist in the manufacture and support of Ruska-designed PVT analysis instrumentation and related ancillary equipment.

Frank Colesswas elected president and COO of Globe Wireless, a provider of communications solutions to the maritime industry.

UWG Group appointed Tom Leeson as general manager of equipment and Duncan Fell as technical sales engineer.

Dr. Mary L. Fleming was named executive director of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists.

Clifford H. (Scott) Rees III was appointed president and COO of Netherland, Sewell & Associates, Inc. Danny D. Simmons and G. Lance Binder were appointed to executive VP. Frederic D. Sewell became chairman and CEO. Clarence M. Netherland moved into the position of chairman emeritus.

Canyon Offshore, Ltd., appointed Fraser Ralley to business development manager, responsible for identifying and developing business opportunities in the North Sea, Mediterranean and West Africa.

Xanser Corp. named C. Jeffery Chick as president and CEO of its technical services subsidiary, Furmanite Worldwide.

UpstreamInfo named Kurt Hillman as VP business development, responsible for leading the company’s global business development efforts.

Jim Groninger joined the Natural Gas Supply Association as director of government relations.

Waukesha Engine appointed Aseem Kumar Sharma regional manager for India in Mumbai. He is responsible for developing the firm’s presence and market penetration.

Eric Smith has resigned from his role as president of Torch Offshore. He will continue to support Torch Offshore, but will also be able to pursue planning, market analysis and financial management assignments outside the firm.

BJ Tubular Services promoted Malcolm Gray-Stephens to technical services manager-Middle East & Asia Pacific Region. Doug BellAwas appointed area manager-Asia Pacific region, based in Dubai. Iain AndersonGwas appointed operations manager for BJ Completion Assembly Services.

Berg Steel Pipe promoted David J. Deli to president and CEO of the Panama City, Florida-based pipe manufacturer. L. John Burton was promoted to operations VP.

Wieland Electric Inc. named Ted Naylor as national sales manager, responsible for establishing sales policies, strategies and goals for the firm’s national sales team of regional managers, manufacturers’ representatives and distributors, as well as customer service representatives. Marc Immordino was promoted to electronics product manager.

Dr. Peter Casbarian was named president and CEO of Petro-Marine/BCI Engineering, Inc., the new company formed by the merger of Petro-Marine Engineering and Barnett & Casbarian, Inc.

Global Industries, Ltd., President Peter S. Atkinson will assume all administrative functions worldwide including accounting, human resources, information and communications, investor relations, legal, purchasing, risk and safety. Craig Milburn joined as operations manager for Global Divers, based in New Iberia, LA. Bill Alexander was appointed business development manager-North America, based in Houston. Rob Tissington was appointed business development manager-West Africa, based in Lagos, Nigeria. Clive R. Makinson-Sanders was named product director-Global Mexico, responsible for project management and operations in Mexico.

Deaths

Charles A. Doh passed away on Monday, July 29. He was born on Sept. 11, 1911 in Odessa, Russia and moved to Paris when he was five. He worked for Schlumberger for his entire 42 year-career, which led him to such assignments as Romania, Trinidad, Venezuela, Illinois and Louisiana. He was promoted to international VP in 1951 and held that title until his retirement in 1976. Charley was a member of the Houston Club, AAPG, Houston Underwater Club, Houston Conchology Society, NOMADS and POPS.

Jerry C. Funderburk, Jr., died on July 4, 2002. Jerry was born in Canton, Texas, on July 24, 1926. Following graduation from Canton high School in 1943, he served in the United States Navy until 1946 as tailgunner on a Douglas SBD Dauntless / dive bomber. In 1951, he received his BS degree in petroleum engineering and worked for Gulf Oil for 15 years. He was Drilling Editor for World Oil from 1966 to 1968, oil industry marketing representative for Honeywell Marine Systems from 1968 to 1971, subsequently returning to Gulf Oil where he worked in Oklahoma and Cabinda, Angola.

Retired Phillips Petroleum Drilling Superintendent Moose Crabb Milton died June 30, 2002, in Houston, Texas. His oilfield career began as a roughneck in the fields of Louisiana and Texas and proceeded to international drilling in Libya, Nigeria, Egypt, North Sea area, Peru, Papua New Guinea, Philippines and Indonesia.

Sorley Greig passed away on June 20. He was group chief executive of JDR Cable Systems. He joined Hunting Oilfield Services International as joint managing director in 1993. He became CEO of JDR Cable Systems on Aug. 28, 1998.