Albert-Garaudy and Associates, Inc.,
New Orleans, La., has named John LaBarbera senior vice president and general manager, Houston area operations. Wally Veron has been named E&I department manager, Metairie, La.
LaBarbera joined AGA after a successful career as an engineer in various capacities for ExxonMobil (formerly Exxon Co., USA). These positions included senior project engineer and staff engineer in the Gas Engineering and Design/Construction divisions. Most recently, he worked as senior supervising engineer, supervising the Projects Services Group that implemented oil and gas design and construction.
Veron has more than 34 years of engineering experience. He began his career at AGA as senior engineer and has managed many projects, including upgrading an Emergency Shutdown System for a refinery in Colombia. Before joining AGA, Veron was an E&I engineering advisor for Mobil Exploration and Production Co. (now ExxonMobil), where he was project engineer and an automated field systems supervisor.
Albert-Garaudy and Associates, Inc. is a multi-disciplined engineering consulting company. The company provides design, engineering, management, procurement and process safety and optimization services for the petroleum, refining, chemical and marine industries.
Aker Maritime,
Houston, Tex., has created two new departments: Riser Technology & Well Systems and Deepwater Solutions Research & Development.
The Riser Technology and Well Systems department designs and analyzes deepwater riser concepts including top-tensioned, steel catenary and hybrid systems. Paul Stanton, who has over thirty years experience of risers and well systems, will lead this group.
John Halkyard will lead the Deepwater Solutions Research & Development group in focusing on the next wave of innovative designs for deepwater developments. The group will continue the development of existing technology such as the classic and truss Spars. The group will also focus on further advancing concepts such as the dry tree FPSO solutions, stepped tendons for TLPs, and composite risers, and act as the innovation wellspring for the next generation of deepwater solutions. Some eight ex-DOT staff form the core of this group and will be supplemented by Aker Engineering resources.
Lyle Finn has joined the Aker team in the position of technology advisor in order to capitalize on his extensive experience of deepwater-related technology including risers, Spars, TLPs, compliant and guyed towers and pipelines.
Furmanite Worldwide,
Houston, Tex., has named W. Scott Wiseman vice president of marketing and project development. Wiseman joined Furmanite at the start of the year as part of the company's global realignment process that has centralized marketing, sales support and administrative control to the Houston headquarters.
With a diversified career spanning 20 years, Wiseman spent the last 14 years in various business development roles, including executive director of project development for Fluor Daniel, Inc., also in Houston. At Furmanite, Wiseman will be responsible for business development and marketing activities both domestically and internationally.
Furmanite Worldwide provides on-and off-line repairs of leaks in valves, pipes and other components used in process industries.
Core Laboratories
has named two corporate vice presidents, Jim Gresham and Patrick Keenan, to lead its business development efforts in the U.S. and internationally.
Jim Gresham was vice president of Tomoseis from 1998 until its merger with Core Laboratories in January 2000. From 1997 to 1998, he was vice president of business development at Western Atlas, Inc. Gresham began his oil field career in 1977 as a wireline logging engineer with Dresser Atlas. He held various field operations, sales and management positions, and in 1993 was named senior vice president of the Western Hemisphere for Western Atlas Logging Services.
Patrick (Paddy) Keenan was chief executive officer of Coherence Technology Co., Inc. from 1996 until 1999 when the company was merged with Core Laboratories. Prior to joining CTC he was vice president of worldwide operations for Numar Corp. From 1988 until 1992 he held various positions at Sperry Sun Drilling Services and its parent, Baroid Corp., achieving the position of vice president-corporate marketing. Keenan joined Exlog,a division of Baker Hughes, Inc. in 1974 From then until 1988 he held various international and US-based operations, sales, and marketing positions.
Halliburton Co.
has named Robert Heinemann chief technology officer. Heinemann will direct activities related to Halliburton's extensive technology portfolio supporting its customers in the energy services, construction, engineering, maintenance, and equipment industries.
Heinemann, a 20-year Mobil Corp. veteran, most recently served as the vice president of Mobil Technology Co. and the general manager of the Mobil E&P Technical Center in Dallas.
Halliburton Co. is a diversified energy services, engineering, construction, maintenance and energy equipment company.
Paradigm Geophysical Ltd.
has named Larry Lenig Jr. president of Paradigm's US operations, replacing Steve Goldsberry. Goldsberry has been named to head the newly formed product business group.
Lenig joins Paradigm from Grant Geophysical, Inc., where he served as president and chief executive officer. Prior to that, Lenig held a variety of key management positions including president of Digicon Inc.
John Dinning has been named vice president of client solutions, US operations from vice president of sales, GeoQuest North America. He will assume overall responsibility to the offerings of pre-sales, sales, customer support and distribution to provide Paradigm's customers with even easier access to its geoscience knowledge solutions.
Paradigm Geophysical Ltd. provides geoscience software and service solutions to the oil and gas industry. The company has sales, customer support and service offices in Houston, London, Aberdeen, Calgary, Bahrain, Moscow, Caracas, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Perth, Brisbane, Beijing, Jakarta and Singapore.
The Dietsmann Group
has announced the incorporation of Dietswell Engineering. This new business unit will deliver comprehensive resources in the contiguous fields of integrated drilling studies, well engineering, pre-drilling preparation, well-site support, advanced well technology, integrated drilling operations and project management. The company, based in Paris, France, will be supported by Dietsmann in more than 30 countries where the group has ongoing activities for global operations and maintenance services in the oil and gas industry.
Jean Claude Bourdon has been named managing director. Bourdon has 21 years experience in the drilling industry, ten years with Sedco Forex where he held various technical and operational positions and eleven years with Horwell, an affiliated company of Pride Forasol, where he was managing director.
Dietsmann provides operations and maintenance services in the oil and gas industry, utilities and other industrial sectors, both in terms of experience as well as in technology.
Shared Earth Technologies,
Denver, Colo., a geoscience software developer, has named David Armitage to its board of directors.
Armitage was the founder, former president, and CEO of GeoGraphix, a desktop interpretation system provider for the oil and gas industry. He is presently the founder, president, and CEO of Qubit Technology, a Denver-based Internet appliance builder.
Shared Earth is backed by the venture capital firm Altira.
Scott Pickford,
a Core Laboratories company and an international geoscience consultancy, has named Andy Kirchin managing director of Scott Pickford's Europe/Africa/Middle East operations, based in Croydon, UK, and offering integrated reservoir solutions from its London, Aberdeen and Lagos offices. He was previously head of production and reservoir geoscience for Scott Pickford and has been with the company for thirteen years.
Kirchin replaces Chris Cottam, who has been named vice president, reservoir management for Core Laboratories, based in Houston. He will manage all the Core Laboratories operations which have been amalgamated in Core's Reservoir Management services operations, including Scott Pickford, Integra Geoservices, The Andrews Group, Coherence Technology Co. and CTC Pulsonic.
Core Laboratories N.V. is a provider of proprietary and patented reservoir description, production enhancement and reservoir management services.
Grant Geophysical, Inc.,
Houston, Tex., has named Darci Matos area manager Southern Latin America. Matos will be a key member of the regional management team based in the Grant Rio de Janeiro office.
Prior to joining Grant, Matos held the position of president of Lasa - Airbourne Surveys. He previously has held senior management positions at Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, Western Geophysical, Inc., Halliburton Geophysical Services, Inc., and Themag Geosource Geofisica Ltda. Matos has over 20 years of industry experience.
Grant Geophysical, Inc., and its subsidiaries and affiliates, is principally involved in the business of acquiring, processing and marketing 2-D and 3-D land seismic data. Such data are used by oil and gas companies in the exploration for new reserves, the development of existing reservoirs and the management of producing oil and gas fields and other specialized geophysical and production related services.
Visma Marine,
Oslo, Norway, has named Rune Martini regional managing director of SpecTec's US headquarters in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
Martini has extensive management experience. Most recently, he was the managing director with global responsibilities of Norwegian acoustic underwater defense contractor, Geco Defense AS. He has also worked as a marketing manager for Rieber Shipping AS, and serves on the board of several influential Norwegian business associations.
Former US regional manager John Avila has been named to lead development of SpecTec's onshore industrial activities in the US and Americas. The company currently already provides software solutions to many regional customers in the onshore market, including the Manitoba Department of Highways and Transportation, Volkswagen (Mexico) and Petrocoque, a Brazilian petrochemical processing company.
Visma Marine is the holding company for SpecTec, a shipping software provider.