Services/Suppliers

March 16, 2009

Baker Hughes Inc.,

Houston, has appointed Martin S. Craighead senior vice-president and COO effective Apr. 30. Craighead, currently president of Baker Hughes’s drilling and evaluation group, has more than 27 years of experience. Previously, he was president of INTEQ and, prior to that, president of Baker Atlas. Craighead joined the company in 1986 and has served Western Atlas and Baker Atlas in a number of operational positions. Before joining Baker Hughes, he worked as a research engineer at BJ Services. Craighead has a BS in petroleum and natural gas engineering from Pennsylvania State University and an MBA from Vanderbilt University.

In addition, David H. Barr, Baker Hughes group president, completion and production, will retire from the company on Apr. 30 after 36 years in the industry, most of it at Baker Hughes. Baker Hughes provides reservoir consulting, drilling, formation evaluation, completion, and production products and services to the worldwide oil and gas industry.

Mustang Engineering,

Hughes
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Houston, has appointed J.L. (Jim) Hughes as manager of its pipeline engineering and services office in Fort Worth. He has more than 23 years of experience in onshore and offshore facilities design, with pipeline experience including all aspects of transmission and distribution pipeline engineering, design, routing, and all field activities and construction.

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Meanwhile, John W. Dalton Sr., executive vice-president of Mustang, has been elected the 2009 chairman of the executive committee for the Construction Industry Institute. CII is a consortium of more than 100 leading global owners, contractors, suppliers, and academia who have joined together to create industry best practices and measurably improve the delivery of capital facilities. Dalton has operations oversight for Mustang’s global engineering, project services, IT, and construction operations and for the midstream and process and industrial business units. He is a graduate of the University of Houston. Mustang, part of international energy services company John Wood Group PLC, is an independent services provider to the global oil, gas, chemical, and manufacturing industries. Mustang specializes in design, engineering, procurement, project management, and construction management and offers these services through its six business units: upstream oil and gas, midstream, pipeline, automation and control, refining and petrochemicals, and process and industrial.

Wood Group is an international energy services company with three businesses—engineering and production facilities, well support, and gas turbine services—providing a range of engineering, production support, maintenance management, and industrial gas turbine overhaul and repair services to the oil and gas and power generation industries worldwide.