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Vol. 230 No.7 |
Global Tubing announced that Dr. H. B. Luft has joined the company as Senior Technical Consultant. He has more than 30 years of oil and gas engineering experience with emphasis on coiled tubing research, engineering and applications. He has also published more than 30 technical papers.
Aberdeen-based Walker Technical Resources (WTR) has promoted Ewan Robertson to Operations Director. Robertson joined WTR in 1997 as a trainee technician.
The Minerals Management Service (MMS) presented the Offshore Leadership Award (OLA) at the 2009 Offshore Technology Conference. The 2009 OLA winners were: Wayne Broussard, PSN/Grasso; A.J. Guiteau, Diamond Offshore Drilling Inc.; George Hagerman, Virginia Tech Advanced Research Institute; Ann Jochens, Texas A&M University; Paul Landry, Apache Corp.; Darryl Luoma, BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc.; Alan Romine, InterACT PMTI; John Seeger, InterACT PMTI; Chris Brooks, Merit Energy Co.; William “Billy” Poe, Explosive Service International; Harlan King and Virgil Russell, BP America, Inc.; and Al Gonsoulin, Petroleum Helicopter Inc.
Expro announced changes to its executive management team. Graeme Coutts, who has been CEO since 2003, will assume the position of full-time Executive Chairman. He has been with Expro for 20 years. Gavin Prise will succeed Coutts as CEO. He has held several senior management roles within the company, most recently as COO.
Consulting Geologist David G. Rensink has been voted President-Elect by the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG). Rensink recently retired as Senior Geological Adviser for Apache Corp. in Houston. He will assume the AAPG presidency in 2010.
Flotek Industries Inc. has appointed Scott D. Stanton as the company’s VP of Finance and Chief Accounting Officer. Before to joining Flotek, from 2006 to 2008, he was VP, Finance, and Assistant Controller for Office Depot Inc.
Compton Petroleum Corp. has announced that C.W. Leigh Cassidy will be appointed VP Finance and CFO. Also, Susan J. Soprovich has joined the company as Director of Investor Relations.
Tendeka, the new parent organization for three energy technology providers, has named Martin Perry its Chairman. The company combines digital monitoring solutions provider Sensornet, swellable elastomers specialist Swellfix, and wireless well communication and downhole instrumentation specialist Well Technology. Perry was previously Chairman for Sensornet. Neale Carter joined Tendeka as CEO. He has more than 17 years of industry experience working at major oilfield technology companies, most recently as CEO of Sensornet.
Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS) has appointed Roar Bekker as CEO. He has held the position of COO at EMGS since December 2007, and has served as temporary CEO since December 2008. Bekker has 20 years of international management experience in the oil and gas industry. Prior to joining the company, he held the position of VP of Industry Affairs for Schlumberger Norway.
Wild Well Control Inc. has named Freddy Gebhardt as President. Previously, he served as Executive VP and General Manager of the company. His industry career spans over 30 years, focusing on well control and blowout prevention, well capping, snubbing and coiled tubing operations.
Noble Denton has appointed Graeme Reid as Regional Managing Director, UK and Kazakhstan. Reid was previously the company’s Northern Operations Director. Before that, he served as Operations Director with Poseidon Maritime (UK) Ltd. (PML), which was acquired by Noble Denton in 2007.
OBITUARY
Lawrence H. “Larry” Flak, 54, a drilling and well control expert, died in a boating accident May 20, 2009. Flak, a resident of Conroe, Texas, was a Senior Technology Engineer for Signa Engineering Corp. He was known industrywide as a top well control expert, and spent much of his 30-year career fighting well blowouts and oil fires worldwide, including the oil fires in Kuwait in 1991. At that time, Flak served as project manager for the Kuwait Oil Co., and managed 28 teams of well fire-fighters that controlled 732 blowouts, 600 of which were burning. From 1992 to 2004, he managed teams of blowout experts for Boots & Coots, where he developed and patented the “Dynamic Freeze” process, which won the BP Chairman’s Award for excellent application success in Sharjah, UAE. He was also a deepwater specialist, authoring several technical articles, and was part of the group that developed the IADC/OOC Deepwater Well Control Guidelines.
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