Cooper Cameron Corp.
Houston, has named Franklin Myers as senior vice-president and chief financial officer, replacing Thomas R. Hix, who has retired.
Myers earned a BS degree in industrial engineering from Mississippi State University, and a JD with honors from the University of Mississippi. He spent 10 years with Fulbright & Jaworski law firm, seven years with Baker Hughes Inc., and joined Cooper Cameron in 1995.
Cooper Cameron Corp. is a leading international manufacturer of oil and gas pressure control equipment, centrifugal air compressors, integral and separable gas compressors and turbochargers.
Albert-Garaudy & Associates (AGA) Inc.
New Orleans, has announced the addition of Richard (Mike) Akin to its Houston office. His responsibilities include general business development and growing AGA's professional services sector. An ExxonMobil retiree, Akin spent over 28 years in operations, project management, and development positions in Malaysia, Australia, Saudi Arabia, and the US.
Albert-Garaudy & Associates Inc. is a multi-disciplined engineering consulting company that provides design, engineering, management, and process safety and optimization services for the petroleum, refining, chemical, and marine industries.
Anderol Inc. and Royal Lubricants
East Hanover, NJ, have recently consolidated under the Anderol name, bringing its full line of specialty lubricants under one global product line.
Anderol Inc., founded in 1941, serves customers in the air compression, aviation, food and beverage, military, mining, oil and gas, and power generation markets.
Cuming Corp.
Avon, Mass., has appointed Louis D. Slaughter as US sales representative for its syntactic foam buoyancy products. Slaughter has long experience and expertise in risers and subsea equipment, and previously worked for Regan Offshore, Hughes Offshore, Vetco Gray Hughes, and Stewart & Stevenson.
Cuming Corp. manufactures high-performance syntactic products for the offshore oil and gas industry. The company continues to develop advanced materials technologies to enable deepwater exploration and production in increasingly challenging conditions.
Precision Drilling Corp.
Calgary, has announced plans to sell its shares of Energy Industries Inc. to Toromont Industries Ltd. Energy Industries designs and manufactures modularized natural gas compression packages ranging from 100 to 5,000 HP.
Toromont represents Caterpillar and other equipment lines, maintaining dealerships in Manitoba, Nunavut, Ontario, Newfoundland and Eastern Labrador, and through Battlefield Equipment Rentals is one of Canada's premier construction equipment rental companies.
Precision Drilling Corp. is a growing international oil and gas services company with headquarters in Calgary and operations in North America, Latin America, Europe/ Africa, the Middle East and Asia/Pacific.
CorrOcean ASA
Oslo, has promoted Dave Rees to president of its Houston-based subsidiary, CorrOcean Inc. Rees will be responsible for developing the Houston operation to a full function service center for the CorrOcean divisions: monitoring technology, advanced integrity services, and SafeTec risk management.
Rees holds a BS degree in environmental sciences from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, and post graduate diplomas in management and marketing from Robert Gordon's University, Aberdeen, Scotland. With over 25 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, he most recently served as American business development manager for CorrOcean Inc.
CorrOcean is a provider of solutions for corrosion and condition monitoring technology, asset integrity, and inspection/maintenance planning, and risk/safety management. Headquartered in Trondheim, CorrOcean has offices in 11 countries. The company is developing new product and service technology in several areas, including high accuracy sensor systems specifically designed for the deep offshore environment.
Halliburton Energy Services
Houston, has promoted John Gibson to CEO, upon the retirement of Edgar Ortiz. Additionally, Tim Probert has been named senior executive of the newly created drilling & formation evaluation div.; and Lew Watts has been named senior executive of the solutions group.
Gibson, who has 20 years of experience in the energy and information technology industries, holds a bachelor's degree in geology from Auburn University, and a master's degree in geology from University of Houston. He joined Halliburton in 1994, serving as president/CEO of Landmark Graphics, and most recently was president of Halliburton Energy Services.
Probert holds a BS degree in geology and geography from the University of London. He has held senior executive positions with Baker Hughes and Halliburton, most recently serving as president/CEO of Input Output Inc.
Watts earned a PhD in geology from the University of Reading, UK, and has more than 20 years of experience with Shell.
Halliburton Energy Services Group delivers real-time systems, technologies, and services to the upstream oil and gas industry.
Halliburton, founded in 1919, is a global provider of products and services to the petroleum and energy industries.