PERSONNEL MOVES AND PROMOTIONS: ChevronTexaco names vice-president and general counsel

Oct. 14, 2002
Charles A. James has been named vice-president and general counsel for ChevronTexaco Corp. James succeeds Harvey D. Hinman, who will retire. James's new position becomes effective Dec. 9.

Charles A. James has been named vice-president and general counsel for ChevronTexaco Corp. James succeeds Harvey D. Hinman, who will retire. James's new position becomes effective Dec. 9.

James also will hold a seat on ChevronTexaco's six-member executive committee.

James will join ChevronTexaco from the US Department of Justice, where he currently serves as assistant attorney general for the antitrust division. Before his DOJ appointment, James served as a lawyer with Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in Washington, DC. He joined the firm in 1985, but interrupted his tenure to serve in President George H.W. Bush's administration as deputy assistant attorney general and acting assistant attorney general. James rejoined the firm in 1993.

Upstream moves

Brian O'Cathain has been appointed managing director, international business, Tullow Oil International, a unit of London-based oil and natural gas exploration and production company Tullow Oil PLC. O'Cathain's appointment becomes effective Nov. 1. He will be based in Tullow's Dublin office. Before joining Tullow, O'Cathain most recently served as managing director of Enterprise Energy Ireland, the Irish unit of Enterprise Oil PLC of London. He joined Enterprise in 1991.

O'Cathain, who is a geologist and petroleum engineer, began his 18-year career in the oil and gas industry as a petroleum engineer with Shell International in 1984.

Michael P. Windisch has been appointed chief financial officer of Lexington, Ky.-based Daugherty Resources Inc.

Windisch joins Daugherty Resources after working for 5 years in audit practice for public accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

Houston-based Rocky Mountain Energy Corp. has unveiled a development scheme for its Hospah field, which is located in the Four Corners area of New Mexico.

Donnie Hill Sr. will serve as the program's director and will join Rocky Mountain as an executive vice-president of operations. Hill comes to the company with 30 years of industry experience.

"There are no fields in the immediate area which have produced from these Dakota sand zones," Hill noted. "We have impressive tests of 9.3 MMcfd and 6.4 MMcfd, respectively, from two wells that were drilled back in 1975 by Tenneco (Inc.)." Rocky Mountain said there were 11 such wells, which were drilled and tested by Tenneco, but never produced due to the lack of a viable gas market and appropriate infrastructure.

Jack J. Cook has been hired as drilling manger for Berry Petroleum Co. effective Sept. 1. In his new position, Cook will supervise all US drilling and workover operations for the Bakersfield, Calif.-based company. Cook has worked for Berry as a drilling consultant for the last several years.

Cook began his career in the petroleum industry in 1964. During 1979-83, he served as vice-president and manager of Watson Drilling & Production Engineering Inc., Santa Barbara, Calif. From 1983 to the present, Cook has worked as an independent consultant, focusing on well stimulation and remedial and workover engineering.

Other moves

Samuel W. Miller has been named executive vice-president and chief operating officer of Nisource Inc., Merrillville, Ind. Miller, formerly a partner with Chicago-based Accenture, has 20 years of experience as a consultant on the redesign, implementation, and management of business operations.

Miller has worked with Nisource for the last 2 years as a consultant to assist in the merger integration of Nisource and Herndon, Va.-based Columbia Energy Group, which Nisource acquired in early 2000 (OGJ Online, Mar. 6, 2000).