MIRATECH Corp.,
Tulsa, has announced a series of key executive appointments. They are part of a major expansion of the company that includes a 28% overall increase in staff and a relocation to new offices in Tulsa that nearly doubles its square footage.
William “Bill” Clary was promoted to CEO. Clary, a 16-year company veteran, previously was vice-president of sales, marketing, and engineering.
Kevin O’ Sullivan was promoted to president and COO from his former position of vice-president of operations. David Zenthoefer was promoted to vice-president, sales, from his previous position of sales director; he will oversee MIRATECH’s gas compression, power generation, locomotive, and marine markets.
Prior to joining MIRATECH, Zenthoefer spent 7 years in a sales position with Hilti Corp. He holds an MBA from the University of Tulsa. John Sartain was promoted to vice-president, engineering, from his previous position of director, engineering. Sartain joined MIRATECH in 1999 as a University of Tulsa mechanical engineering graduate and has served in the engineering department.
Don Lambert was promoted to vice-president, customer operations, from his previous position of director, customer operations. A 14-year MIRATECH veteran, Lambert is a University of Tulsa mechanical engineering graduate and has served in the engineering, sales, and operations departments.
Kathy Whiteis joins MIRA-TECH as marketing director. She has more than 20 years of marketing experience in the IT consulting and professional services industries and holds a marketing degree from Northeastern State University. Mark McKenney joins MIRA-TECH as gas compression division manager. He previously spent 15 years with Hilti, most recently as its strategic business director. A graduate of East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania, McKenney’s expertise is in marketing, strategy development, and sales management. Other recent staff additions include Debora Calderon, inside sales; Jessica Galassie, research and development manager; Russell Ryan, technical project manager; Elise Kelly, strategic account manager; Adam Merillat, application engineer; Jeremy Gardner, design engineer; and John Smith III, drafter.
MIRATECH provides emission solutions for industrial engine applications, mainly natural gas and diesel reciprocating engines used in natural gas production, oil and gas drilling, power generation, locomotive, marine, and fluid pumping markets as well as engineering, service, and support.
Cameron,
Houston, has acquired Precision Downhole Pumps, a US-based manufacturer of artificial lift equipment. Precision, based in Iola, Kan., will be integrated into the surface systems division of Cameron’s drilling and production systems group in Houston. The acquisition will increase the size and geographic reach of Cameron’s existing artificial lift businesses with manufacturing in Iola and a distribution channel throughout the US. In addition, it will broaden the scope of Cameron products and services offered in the US, including sucker rods, as well as support Cameron’s artificial lift market internationally.
Precision designs, builds, distributes, and services rod lift pumping systems and associated services and has been supplying sucker rod pump parts and accessories to the rod lift market for 20 years.
Cameron is a leading provider of flow equipment products, systems, and services to worldwide oil, gas, and process industries.
Gaffney, Cline & Associates,
Houston, has appointed Cesar Emilio Guzzetti to manage its operations in the Southern Cone of Latin America. He has more than 25 years of global project evaluation experience in negotiations, engineering, and operations, with a focus on exploration projects and expanding production in developed fields. Guzzetti most recently served as engineering manager and deputy general manager for Hunt Oil in Peru. Prior to that, he held management and technical positions with Tecpetrol SA and Perez Companc. Guzzetti has a BS in mechanical engineering from the University of Buenos Aires and an MBA and a petroleum engineering PhD from Louisiana Tech University.
Gaffney Cline is an independent petroleum consultancy that specializes in providing strategic, commercial, management, and technical assistance to national oil companies, governments, international oil and gas companies, and financial institutions.
Roxar ASA,
Stavanger, has named Serena Arif regional manager, Europe and Africa, for its flow measurement division. Previously, she was cofounder and business development manager at PolyOil, which Roxar acquired in May 2008. Arif will be based in Roxar’s Aberdeen office. Prior to that, she was a production engineer in the plastics industry. Arif has a degree in applied polymer chemistry at Napier University in Edinburgh.
Roxar’s flow measurement division consists of an extensive downhole, topside, and subsea product range. The company is the oil and gas industry’s largest provider of subsea instrumentation for reservoir interpretation, modeling, and simulation; well and completion; and production and process solutions, in addition to its consultancy services.
