LAGCOE
has named Ron Garber of Apache Corp. chairman for 2001. Serving in key positions with Garber will be John Bodin, co-chairman, and Francis Broussard, treasurer.
Garber, district production manager for Apache, was co-chairman of the 1999 exposition and has served in various other capacities. including chairman of the public relations committee and member of the outside exhibits committee.
Garber began his career as a petroleum engineer with Amoco Production Co. in 1973, and served the company in locations throughout the US before returning to Lafayette in 1977. He joined Apache Corp. in 1992.
Bodin, a LAGCOE veteran, is a member of the board of directors and the executive committee. He has served as chairmarn of traffic, parking and security since 1995.
Broussard is presently employed as production manager for Operators & Consulting Services, Inc.
LAGCOE offers the full gamut of state-of-the-art oil field products and services in its diverse exhibits. The Technical Sessions program focuses on areas in the industry where the application of new technologies are most critical.
The Oil & Gas Journal Exchange,
the leading Web-based independent trading exchange for the oil and gas industry, has named H.W. Norton, Jr. vice president of operations of the Global Equipment Exchange. From the Global Equipment Exchange's new Houston office, Norton will oversee the worldwide operations, business development and site technology of this new division of the Oil & Gas Journal Exchange. In addition to his duties as vice president of operations, he will be responsible for directing the Houston region marketing and sales effort.
Oil & Gas Journal Exchange and its Global Equipment Exchange are part of the pennNET (www.pennNET.com) family of Web sites. pennNET is a leader in creating secure, reliable e-marketplaces for business professionals in critical global markets. pennNET's neutral e-marketplaces offer a highly secure and confidential transaction environment that protects all participants' competitive and financial data.
Norton has over 30 years of domestic and international upstream oil & gas industry experience. During his career Norton has spent 11 years abroad in the Middle East, the North Sea and Indonesia. Over the past two decades, Norton has also held various executive positions at Mobil Natural Gas, Inc. and the Mobil Oil Co.
The Global Equipment Exchange launched in June as part of the Oil & Gas Journal Exchange (www.OGJExchange.com), the leading Web-based independent trading exchange for the oil and gas industry. The exchange links buyers and sellers of surplus and used oil and gas industry and power generation industry equipment on a global scale. Through its extensive worldwide network of buyers and sellers, Global Equipment Exchange will increase liquidity and resale value for the surplus and used equipment offered on its site.
The exchange is the first of its kind and will offer the industry's largest inventory of equipment focused on the energy industry in terms of size and overall value. Global Equipment Exchange's catalog will consist of a wide array of used and surplus equipment in the power generation industry. These inventories include artificial lift units, line pipe and drilling rigs in the upstream oil and gas sector, refineries in the downstream sector, and additional gas and steam turbines.
NKK Corp.
of Japan and Siderca SAIC of Argentina have successfully concluded the negotiations to establish a joint venture embracing the seamless pipe manufacturing business that NKK conducts at Kehin Works (Tokyo, Japan).
The new company, named NKKTUBES, will be jointly owned by Siderca (51%) and NKK (49%).
NKKTUBES will become part of DST -the alliance between different seamless steel pipe manufacturers led by the Techint Group that includes Siderca from Argentina, Dalmine from Italy , Tamsa from Mexico and Tavsa from Venezuela.
The board of directors of NKKTUBES shall be formed with Messrs. Juan Carlos Agoglia, Teruyuki Hasegawa, Ichiro Komatsu, Yuzo Matsushita and Carlos San Martin. San Martin shall be chairman of the board, while Messrs. Agoglia and Matsushita will be appointed representative directors.
UOP LLC,
Des Plaines, Ill., has named Humberto Vainieri president and CEO. He replaces Michael D. Winfield who will retire in Dec.
Winfield will be turning over management of UOP's day-to-day operations to Vainieri, who will become president and CEO on January 1, 2001. Until and after his retirement, Winfield will take on a new role at UOP, with his primary focus on long range planning and business/technology development. After retirement, Winfield will also become a member of UOP's Board of Managers as well as continuing on the boards of UOP's joint venture companies.
Winfield began his career at UOP in 1962 as a chemical engineer. Over the next 30 years, he assumed a series of increasingly responsible positions, including manager of refinery projects, assistant director of technical services, director of business development, vice president of technical services, vice president of process services, and vice president of refining and petrochemical processes and services. In 1992, he was named president and chief executive officer.
Vainieri was named chief operating officer for UOP in Nov. 1999. He was vice president and general manager of refining for BP Amoco before joining UOP. During his long BP career, Vainieri held a variety of corporate and downstream assignments, the most recent of which were: executive director, BP downstream; director, pacesetter refining project; head of human resources for BP Downstream; vice president of refining, U.S.; and general manager, Spain.
UOP LLC is an international supplier and licensor of process technology, catalysts, adsorbents, process plants, and technical services to the petroleum refining, petrochemical, and gas processing industries.