Nicol & Associates, Inc., Richardson, Tex., has named Mark J. Lane president.
Lane joined Nicol & Associates in 1990 as a senior consultant, providing engineering, consulting and project management services to clients in the natural gas industry. Promoted to vice president in February 1999, he was additionally responsible for supervision of engineering and CAD personnel.
Prior to joining Nicol & Associates, Lane held various engineering positions with Sun Gas Co., Sun Exploration & Production Co., and Oryx Energy from 1980 to 1989.
Nicol & Associates, Inc. is an engineering and consulting service company with expertise in all areas of project development, project design, construction management, and operations.
Swaco, a division of M-I Drilling Fluids Canada, Inc., has acquired SCC Environmental Group Inc. of St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada, an authority in thermal desorption technology.
Formerly privately owned and operated, SCC environmental focuses on providing integrated environmental services that include mobile technologies for site remediation and the treatment of drilling fluids and cuttings. Foremost among SCC's treatment systems is the Thermal Phase Separation (TPS) technology that separates and recovers hydrocarbons from drill cuttings, sludges and contaminated soils. Swaco formed a global alliance with SCC in April 1999 to market the TPS technology.
Paul Antle, president and CEO of SCC, will serve as vice president thermal technology and operations.
Swaco is a provider of pressure control, solids control, instrumentation, and waste management equipment and services for the worldwide petroleum drilling industry. M-I Drilling Fluids Canada, Inc. is an operating entity of M-I L.L.C., which is jointly owned 60% by Smith International, Inc. and 40% by Schlumberger Limited.
M-I L.L.C. is a supplier of drilling and completion fluid products/systems, services and equipment to the worldwide petroleum industry.
Science Applications International Corp. (SAIC), San Diego, Calif., has named Lane Sloan executive vice president. Sloan will oversee the company's growing energy market business and provide leadership in SAIC's international and outsourcing activities.
Sloan has 29 years of experience with Shell Oil Co. where he has held various management positions. Prior to joining SAIC, Sloan was executive vice president responsible for the Americas operation in Shell's global chemical business, and more recently he was responsible for divesting a number of chemical businesses. Before Shell's global chemical reorganization, Sloan was the chief executive officer of Shell Oil Co.'s chemical business.
From 1993 to 1997, Sloan was based in Shell's London office where he was the regional coordinator for the Far East and Australia. He also served as director of the East Zone for Shell's oil products sector. From 1988 to 1993, Sloan served as the chief financial officer for Shell Oil Co. and was responsible for information and computer services, purchasing, and administrative services organizations.
SAIC is an employee-owned research and engineering company, providing information technology and systems integration products and services to government and commercial customers. SAIC scientists and engineers work to solve complex technical problems in telecommunications, national security, health care, transportation, energy, the environment, and financial services.
