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Vol. 224 No. 5 |
Rice Engineering named Joseph Schwalbach products and engineering VP, to allow him to focus on development efforts for nine new product rollouts scheduled throughout this year. Rike Tipton was appointed plant manager. Jeff Russell joined as product representative for oilfield tubular products. Tom McLaughlin joined as technical product representative, focusing on international sales.
Anadarko Petroleum Corp. named Chairman Robert J. Allison, Jr., to the additional positions of president and CEO, replacing John N. Seitz, who resigned.
Consulting firm Miller and Lents, Ltd., elected R. W. “Rick” Frazier president. George Schaefer was elected senior VP. Robert J. Oberst and Steven D. Mills were elected VPs.
John L. Banner was appointed president of North West Shelf Australia LNG Pty Ltd.
Sandvik Materials Technology named Peter Gossas, former president of Sandvik Steel, as president and appointed Lars Thorén manager of its tube product area.
BP named Robert Dudley president and CEO of its TNK-BP subsidiary.
Alan J. Noia announced his intention to retire from Allegheny Energy, Inc. He will remain in place until his successor has been named.
Kenneth W. Crouch was elected executive VP for Kerr McGee. David Hager will succeed him as senior VP and head of worldwide E&P. Hager will relocate from Houston to Oklahoma City.
ExxonMobil Production Co. announced the retirement of its president, Dr. Terry Koonce, and the nomination of Dr. Stuart McGill, currently president of ExxonMobil Gas and Power Marketing Co., to succeed Koonce. It is anticipated the board of directors will elect McGill to his new position, with an effective date of July 1, 2003, following Koonce’s retirement on June 30, 2003, after more than 41 years of service. ExxonMobil Production is headquartered in Houston, and is responsible for ExxonMobil’s worldwide oil and gas production activities. The firm further anticipates that the board will elect Philip Dingle as president, ExxonMobil Gas and Power Marketing Co. effective July 1, 2003, succeeding McGill.
Eric Smith joined Global Industries, Ltd., as VP, strategic planning, responsible for increasing the firm’s presence in the disposition and decommissioning of mature offshore properties and advancing its strategy of servicing the entire oil and gas development life cycle.
Petro-Canada President Norman F. McIntyre announced his plans to retire in early 2004. He has been with Petro-Canada since 1982.
DEATHS
J. Hugh Liedtke passed away Friday, March 28, at the age of 81 after a lengthy illness. He received a BA from Amherst College in 1942, an MBA from Harvard Business School the following year, and a law degree from the University of Texas in 1949. He served in the U.S. Navy during WWII as a lieutenant aboard an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. During a chance meeting in Saipan with his brother William C. Liedtke, Jr., they decided that if they survived the war, they would start an independent oil and gas business, and so Liedtke & Liedtke was formed. In 1953, together with George H.W. Bush, they founded Zapata Petroleum and then Stetco in 1962. These companies later merged into South Penn Oil Co., which became Pennzoil, and eventually merged with United Gas Corp. in 1968. Liedtke was also instrumental in forming Pogo Producing Co., Entex, Battle Mountain Gold Co. and United Energy Resources. He was a member of the All-American Wildcatter’s Association and was inducted into the Petroleum Museum Hall of Fame.
Non-resident NOMAD Michael Current, 46, died in an automobile accident on March 6 in Bahrain. He had worked in the Gulf region for over a decade. He was raised in Houston and graduated from Sam Houston State University and the University of Houston.
Dr. Rick Browning passed away March 23 from a massive heart attack. He had 25 years of experience in corporate, government and consulting throughout Europe, North and South America and Asia. He also spent significant time in the Caspian region of the FSU. He specialized in the assessment of markets, especially oil, gas and petrochemicals. He had been chief economist at Phillips Petroleum, and his career included staff positions with Exxon, the Council of Economic Advisers to the U.S. President, the World Bank and the American Enterprise Institute.
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