Moves and Promotions

Jan. 3, 2000
Ryder Scott Co. LP, Houston, Tex., has named Dr. Grant Robertson as a petroleum engineer.

Ryder Scott Co. LP, Houston, Tex., has named Dr. Grant Robertson as a petroleum engineer. He specializes in reservoir simulation and integrated studies. Previously, Robertson was a manager and team leader at BP Exploration Inc. for 10 years. Before that, he was a supervisor and engineer at Chevron Corp. for 15 years, including working as a supervisor of reservoir management at Arabian Chevron Inc. in Saudi Arabia where he was based from 1978 to 1984. He also has experience in other Middle East areas and in the North Sea and Alaska.

Kenneth R. Whaley has been named geologist/geophysicist. He performs geological mapping, petrophysical evaluation and seismic analysis. Whaley has worked 22 years as an exploration and development geologist, including 17 years analyzing areas in the Gulf of Mexico.

Previously, Whaley was senior engineering geologist at King Ranch Energy Inc. He was also an exploration manager at Pennzoil Co. where he worked 16 years. At Pennzoil, Whaley directed all geological and geophysical exploration and development activities in the western division.

Ryder Scott Co. LP is an independent petroleum-reservoir evaluation firm with offices in Calgary, AB, and Denver.

Mustang Engineering, Inc., Houston, Tex., has named Yuri Koba and Sid Cecil senior engineers. The pair have worked together on numerous domestic and international pipeline and production facilities projects. Koba and Cecil have developed state-of-the-art pipeline hydraulics analysis software which successfully handles complex pipeline networks as well as two-phase viscous crudes.

Mustang Engineering, Inc. serves the domestic and international oil and gas industry. The company specializes in design, engineering, procurement, project management and construction management of upstream oil and gas facilities and structures, process plants, control and automation projects and pipelines. Company capabilities range from initial feasibility studies through startup, onshore and offshore.

Alliance Engineering Inc., Houston, Tex., has named Gary W. Long vice president.

Long has over 27 years of experience in business development, sales, marketing, contract negotiations, and management for projects including gas pipelines, production facilities, LPG distribution plants, and manufactured equipment systems. Before joining Alliance, he was director of sales for Flour Daniel, Houston. He previously served as vice president of Williams Brothers Engineering, Tulsa, where he directed sales and marketing for the U.S.

Dan Dutherage has been named director of business development.

Dutherage has over 11 years of experience in the sale of industrial equipment in the petrochemical, pipeline, and oilfield industries. Prior to joining Alliance, he was national sales manager for Aitken, Inc.

Alliance Engineering has extensive experience worldwide as a provider of design and engineering services for onshore and offshore pipeline and production facilities. Their expertise includes compression facilities, pump stations, meter stations, gas processing, cogeneration, sour gas treating, and lightweight topsides for deepwater applications.

Det Norske Veritas (USA) Inc. has named Stephen Shaw head of the Process Industry Div., with day-to-day responsibility for the provision of all DNV services to the refinery, petrochemical and chemical industries in North America.

Shaw has some 17 years of industrial experience in risk management. This experience has been gained from a number of different perspectives within the engineering industry-consultant, operator and design contractor.

Based in Houston, Shaw is responsible for a staff of 60, providing fitness for service, mechanical integrity, risk-based inspection, hazard identification, risk management and management system development services.

Prior to his current position, Shaw was headquartered in England, as director of DNV's London operations. He has also worked extensively across Europe and Asia. Shaw started his career with Brown & Root in the U.K. and also worked at the Sullon Voe Oil Terminal in the Shetland Islands.

W. R. Grace & Co., Columbia, Md., has named Steve A. Bayless vice president and general manager of its Grace Davison Chemical Catalysts business.

Bayless joins Grace from the Westlake Group, where he had been VP of the Fabricated Products Group, and a VP of the Chairman's Office.

Bayless joined Westlake in 1988 as VP, International. He then led their polyolefin business as VP and GM of Westlake Polymers from 1989 through 1991. He next served as VP, strategic planning & business development, where he completed multiple acquisitions of chemical intermediates, polymers, and plastics fabrication businesses. He was elected president of Westlake Styrene Corp. in 1984.

Grace is a global supplier of catalysts and silica products, speciality construction chemicals and building materials, and container protection products.