Services/Suppliers

May 6, 2002
Rueil-Malmaison, France, has named Jean Sentenac as chairman and chief executive officer, and Jean-Pierre Franck as chief operating officer.

Axens

Rueil-Malmaison, France, has named Jean Sentenac as chairman and chief executive officer, and Jean-Pierre Franck as chief operating officer.

Sentenac joined IFP in 2000 and had been executive vice-president of the technical service, technology, and marketing departments, as well as a services group, since the creation of Axens in 2001. He began his career at Air Liquide in Spain and Italy, then joined the Rhone-Poulenc Group, and was managing director of Rhodia’s Life Science Chemicals in 1998. He is a graduate of France’s Ecole Polytechnique and the Ecole Nationale Superieure de Petrole et des Moteurs.

Franck previously served as executive vice-president responsible for Axens’ catalysts and adsorbents business unit.

Axens, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the French Institute of Petroleum (IFP), was formed as a result of the merger of IFP’s Industrial Division, and Procatalyse. Axens integrates the activities of process licensing, process design, catalyst and adsorbent manufacturing, and services for the refining, petrochemicals, and gas industries.

Cooper Cameron Corp.

Houston, has named John D. Carne as president of its Cooper Cameron Valves division. Carne has been with the company more than 30 years, and has held a number of key positions.

Cooper Cameron Corp. is a leading international manufacturer of oil and gas pressure control equipment, including valves, wellheads, controls, chokes, blowout preventers, and assembled systems for oil and gas drilling, production, and transmission used in onshore, offshore, and subsea applications.

Hunting PLC

London, has announced that its subsidiary, Hunting Petroleum France, has acquired Roforge, a manufacturer of forged steel valves for the worldwide energy, refining, and petrochemical industries, based in Lyon, France.

Hunting Petroleum France, based in Paris, serves the French oil and gas industry through operating companies that include Interpec, a petrochemical and refinery equipment supplier; Larco, a manufacturer of refined oil storage products and systems; and ICR, a turnkey oil and gas engineering consultancy.

International Logging Inc.

Rancho Cordova, Calif., has appointed Ric Ashton as vice-president of marketing, and Fritz Reuter as technical representative, both based in Houston.

Ashton has 30 years of experience in oil industry operations and marketing, having served with Exlog and Baker Hughes.

Reuter’s 35 years of oil industry operations, research, and technology experience have been with Exlog, Baker Hughes, and Western Atlas.

International Logging Inc. provides petroleum and geothermal mud logging and well site consultancy services.

M-I LLC

Houston, and its SWACO division have opened a full-scale environmental engineering facility at the company’s headquarters in Houston. The facility includes the industry’s only greenhouse dedicated solely to investigating bioremediation and other technologies aimed at converting drilled cuttings into soil-enhancement material. The center also houses a new waste management engineering laboratory designed for the development of new processes, chemicals, and equipment.

M-I, jointly owned by Smith International and Schlumberger Ltd., is a leading supplier of drilling and completion fluid products and systems, services, and equipment to the worldwide petroleum industry. SWACO is a leading provider of pressure control, solids control, rig instrumentation, and waste management equipment and services for the worldwide petroleum drilling industry.

Technip-Coflexip

Paris, has appointed Daniel Burlin as president of its Onshore-Downstream Branch; Ivan Replumaz as senior vice-president, business and operations of the Offshore Branch; and Christine Lannon-Declercq as controller of the Offshore Branch.

Technip-Coflexip is a leader in the field of oil and petrochemical engineering, construction, and services.

Tidewater Inc.

New Orleans, has promoted Reg McNee to the office of vice-president. McNee joined Tidewater in 1997 and most recently served as head of the company’s Far East division.

Tidewater Inc. owns and operates a large fleet of vessels serving the global offshore energy industry.

US Energy Systems Inc.

White Plains, NY, has announced that Edward M. Campana has joined the firm as senior vice-president and head of corporate finance and strategic planning. Campana previously served as executive director at CIBC World Markets Corp. of New York in the power and utilities investment banking group, and has worked at Global Project Finance Group at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, specializing in debt financing for natural gas pipelines, gas storage facilities, telecommunications projects, and other projects. He holds a BS in economics and finance from the University of Texas.

US Energy Systems Inc. is a provider of energy services, specializing in outsourcing and renewable energy transactions. The company owns and operates 28 energy projects in North America, using combined heat and power, and renewable fuel technologies.

Wood Group

Houston, has established Wood Group Trinidad & Tobago Ltd. to provide a single point of access for companies in Trinidad that require the engineering and production facilities, well support, and gas turbine services expertise provided worldwide by Wood Group. The new company will be based in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.

James Aitken has been named operations director of the new operation. He has more than 25 years of experience in the industry, having worked for BP, Kvaerner, SNC Lavalin, Scimitar Oil, Husky Oil, Brown & Root, and MFS Services Ltd.