PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: SPE's gulf coast section elects chairman for 2002-03

Sept. 2, 2002
James Pappas has been elected to serve as chairman for the Society of Petroleum Engineers, Gulf Coast Section, for 2002-03.
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James Pappas has been elected to serve as chairman for the Society of Petroleum Engineers, Gulf Coast Section, for 2002-03. Currently, Pappas serves as deepwater production systems coordinator for the gulf division of Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy Corp. He also serves as production engineering advisor.

Since joining SPE in 1979, Pappas has served in numerous positions for GCS and for the Permian basin section, including section secretary, treasurer, programs chair, and scholarship committee chair.

Other upstream moves

Igor Effimoff has been appointed chief operating officer of Steamboat Springs, Colo.-based Teton Petroleum Co. Teton conducts its active business solely through a 50% ownership interest in Goltech Petroleum LLC, a Texas limited liability company. Goltech operates through ownership of a 70.59% interest in Goloil, a Russian joint stock company that owns the Eguryak license in Western Siberia (OGJ Online, May 14, 2002).

Most recently, Effimoff served as president of Pennzoil Caspian Corp. While with Pennzoil, he oversaw the company's Caspian region interests, which included the Azerbaijan International Oil Consortium. Effimoff began his career in 1972 as a geologist with Royal Dutch/Shell Group. Since 1981, he has worked with a number of independent oil and gas firms in a senior management capacity.

Ray K. Davis has been appointed chief financial officer of Sefton Resources Inc. of Denver. Sefton, an oil and gas exploration and production company, operates through its wholly owned subsidiaries TEG Oil & Gas USA Inc. and TEG Oil & Gas Canada Inc.

Currently, Davis provides financial services to both public and private small oil and gas companies, including Aspen Exploration Corp., Denver, and Monument Resources Inc., Castle Rock, Colo., for which he is currently a financial consultant.

During 1977-84, Davis served as treasurer and chief financial officer for Denver-based Macy & Mershon Oil Inc. Before that, he held positions as partner, controller, and chief accountant with various petroleum and mining companies.

Stephen A. Thorington has been named executive vice-president and chief financial officer of Plains Exploration & Production Co. LP, a unit of Houston-based Plains Resources Inc. The company reported that Jere C. Overdyke will remain executive vice-president and chief financial officer of Plains Resources.

Thorington comes to Plains E&P from Ocean Energy Inc. of Houston, where he served as senior vice-president, finance and corporate development. He joined Ocean when it merged with Houston-based Seagull Energy Corp. (OGJ, Dec. 28, 1998, p. 26), where he served for 3 years as vice-president, finance and treasurer. Before working for Seagull, Thorington served as a managing director of Chase Manhattan Bank in New York and Houston.

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Rex Alman has been named senior vice-president, Algeria, and managing director of Anadarko Algeria Co. LLC, a wholly owned unit of Anadarko Petroleum Corp. Alman succeeds Tony Meyer, who has been appointed vice-president, international and Alaska operations.

Alman, who will office in Uxbridge, England, will oversee Anadarko's Algerian exploration and production operations.

Alman joined Anadarko as an evaluation engineer in 1976. Since then, he has held numerous senior positions in exploration and production, including vice-president, exploration and production operations, and vice-president, operations, US onshore.

In 1997, he was named vice-president, domestic operations. Most recently, Alman was named senior vice-president, domestic operations.

Downstream moves

Scott McEwen has been named vice-president, polypropylene, for Houston-based Atofina Petrochemicals Inc., the petrochemical branch of TotalFinaElf SA.

Previously, McEwen served as director general of Atofina's joint venture FM Technologies in Feluy, Belgium. Prior to that, he worked as the plant manager at Atofina's styrene monomer facility in Baton Rouge, La.