Venture Transport Inc.,
Houston, Tex., an energy and general commodity industry logistics provider, has been acquired by ASCo Group Ltd., a U.K.-based international logistics company. The acquisition significantly boosts ASCo's logistics capabilities in America.
Venture Transport employs 150 people and a fleet of more than 900 owner-operated trucks in the Texas Gulf Coast area to provide heavy equipment transportation services to onshore and offshore energy companies in the U.S. and Canada.
As a result of the acquisition, Venture becomes a wholly-owned subsidiary of ASCo Group and the management team remains unchanged.
ASCo Group owns and operates L&L Oil and Gas Services and L&L Environmental Services.
International Logging Overseas, Ltd. (ILO),
Sacramento, Calif., has named Alan D. Morrison vice president & general manager South East Asia and Australia.
Morrison began his career with EXLOG working in SE Asia in 1980. He progressed from mud logger to consultant geologist. While with EXLOG, and then Baker Hughes Inteq, Morrison consulted for various oil and gas companies as a well site and staff geologist until becoming an independent consultant in 1994.
In Nov. 1999 he joined International Logging as area manager for SE Asia.
Pace Global Energy Services. LLC,
Fairfax, Va., has named Daniel F. White executive vice president. In addition to leading the firm's natural gas, oil, and coal consulting practices, White is charged with expanding Pace's European energy consulting practice in the areas of fuel, electric power, infrastructure development, and asset management.
White joined Pace in 1992 and has since been instrumental in developing and expanding the firm's energy consulting practice, both domestically and abroad. He has more than 20 years of industry experience, specializing in market analysis, contract negotiations, strategic business planning, and due diligence assessments supporting acquisitions and financing.
From 1993-1998, White was executive director of the Energy Managers Association, a national trade association representing gas-fired independent power producers. Prior to joining Pace, White worked for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission within the office responsible for federal regulation of natural gas producers, interstate pipelines, and natural gas storage facilities.
Pace Global Energy Services is an independent energy management and consulting firm that helps companies buy, sell, transport, and invest in energy. Pace provides strategic, transactional, and tactical support across fuel, electric power, finance, and risk management sectors.
United Piping Inc., (UPI),
Duluth, Minn., is building a compressor station in Indiana for Vector Pipeline. Vector Pipeline is a partnership of Calgary-based Enbridge Inc., Westcoast Energy and MCN Energy Group Inc. UPI is building the Springville Compressor Station in Indiana for Vector's new 344-mile, 42-inch pipeline project that will transport natural gas from the Chicago area to the upper Midwest and eastern US as well as Eastern Canada.
Work began on the natural gas line compressor station in late May with completion planned in October. UPI will provide the bulk of the station work including the mechanical, electrical, instrumentation and equipment setting for the project.
United Piping Inc. specializes in mechanical contracting, pipe fabrication, engineering, and underground utility construction.
Maritime Telecommunications Network (MTN),
a subsidiary of ATC Teleports Inc., has named Ronald Bennett vice president of Technical Services. He will report to Sr. VP and General Manager Bradford Briggs and will serve on MTN's leadership team.
Bennett joined MTN from Advanced Communications System, Inc., where he served as systems engineer for the past 5 years. There he performed as technical consultant for the Navy Exchange Service Command (NEXCOM) and implemented NEXCOM's personal telecommunications service. For 2 years prior to that, he served as principal analyst at C-Cubed Corp.
Maritime Telecommunications Network (MTN) provides C-Band voice, fax, data and Internet communications as well as Inmarsat services to the cruise and offshore industries. MTN also provides ship-to-shore live video and radio broadcast capabilities in C-or Ku-Band. MTN is owned by its parent company ATC Teleports Inc., which is a wholly owned subsidiary of American Tower Corp.
Coflexip Stena Offshore
has finalized the acquisition of a UK based Robotics company, Slingsby Engineering Ltd., from Flight Refuelling Ltd., a subsidiary of Cobham plc, a major UK public engineering, aerospace and defence group.
Slingsby Engineering Ltd (SEL), Kirkbymoorside, York, England, has a long history as a specialist robotics company with a strong record in robotic engineering, innovation and product development. The current SEL product range represents specialist workclass ROVs, such as the Olympian, MRVRegistered and Spartan, and a highly developed suite of componentry, from advanced manipulators to specialist tooling systems.
Within the Coflexip Stena Offshore Group, SEL will be operated within the Group's Robotics Division, also including Perry Tritech Inc. (PTI). The Robotics Division will operate under the name Perry Slingsby Systems and will be managed by Allen Leatt, president and CEO of Perry Tritech.
Perry Tritech designs and manufactures subsea remotely operated vehicles and related equipment.
Coflexip Stena Offshore provides a wide range of services (project management, engineering design, procurement, subsea pipeline and umbilical laying, construction and maintenance work) and products (design and manufacture of flexible pipes, control umbilicals and remotely operated vehicles).
