Independent Project Analysis, Inc.
has named Paul H. Barshop managing director of IPA Europe, headquartered in The Hague. Barshop succeeds Brett Schroeder, who has served in that position since 1994.
Barshop has been serving as deputy director, IPA Europe, since July 1999. Prior to this, Barshop was the corporate quality coordinator, managing IPA's continuous improvement effort around the world. In his role as European Director, Barshop will have responsibility for the management and development of IPA work in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
Former European Director Brett Schroeder has been named executive vice president and will be based at the company's head office in Reston, Va. He will have responsibility for management of IPA's petroleum areas and direct the company's research and development efforts for benchmarking exploration and production developments.
IPA is a research and consulting firm that provides project evaluation and project system benchmarking services. Serving over 100 companies worldwide, IPA can enhance the capital productivity of its customers by improving the quality and the effectiveness of their approaches to creating manufacturing assets.
ABB
has joined an alliance of companies led by Boots & Coots/International Well Control in providing emergency services around the world.
ABB Vetco Gray, a major supplier of drilling and completion systems, will contribute vital product and service support from more than 50 locations to Boots & Coots/IWC and their clients.
Based in Houston, Tex., Boots & Coots/IWC is a global emergency response company specializing through its well control unit in oil and gas emergencies. Its WELLTEAM alliance, which also includes Halliburton and Weatherford, was established to reduce the time in responding to, and controlling, emergencies, including well blowouts and fires. WELLTEAM is the support group for Boots & Coots/IWC'sWELLSUREsm program.
ABB Vetco Gray is a supplier of highly engineered systems, products and services for oil and gas drilling and production, onshore and offshore.
ABB's worldwide oil, gas and petrochemicals business activities include the companies ABB Lummus Global, ABB Offshore Systems, ABB Soimi and ABB Vetco Gray. The business focuses on the development and supply of offshore production installations, refineries and petrochemical plants worldwide.
Boots & Coots/lWC is a supplier of critical services for planning, intervention, and remediation related to well control incidents in the oil and gas industry.
NEC Group
has acquired ACEL Corrosion and Online Monitoring divisions.
NECE Group, founded in 1987, provides a wide range of engineering, monitoring, maintenance and compliance services to the petroleum industry through its bases in the UK and overseas.
Since its inception in 1980, ACEL has offered cathodic protection and corrosion engineering services to the on- and offshore industries.
Following a long-standing working relationship, the companies have linked complementary strengths to unlock wider opportunities both in the UK and overseas.
NECE unites its strong customer emphasis and breadth of corrosion engineering and management experience with ACEL's in-depth knowledge of specific complementary corrosion monitoring and protection techniques.
Canyon Offshore,
Houston, Tex., has named Graham Openshaw vice president, commercial. Openshaw will be responsible for internal commercial activity, business development and the strategic positioning of the company worldwide.
Openshaw has nearly twenty years of worldwide oil industry experience and has been based in the United Kingdom, Australia and the US. He has extensive operational and management experience working with remotely operated vehicles, subsea engineering and intervention systems. He has been responsible for the design and development of electronic hardware and software for a variety of sophisticated telerobotic and subsea intervention packages. He has held management positions with a number of offshore engineering and subsea intervention companies and was most recently operations manager with INTEC Engineering in Houston.
Canyon Offshore provides ROVs, manpower, and subsea intervention support for all phases of deepwater exploration, drilling, construction, production and now, cable trenching and burial.
Simulation Sciences Inc. (SIMSCI),
Brea, Calif., has named Chris Harding vice president of research and development. Based at SIMSCI's Calif. headquarters, Harding will be responsible for defining and achieving optimal organizational effectiveness within SIMSCI's development teams and incorporating the latest technology into the SIMSCI product suites.
Harding has over 15 years of IT and software development experience, including building object-oriented and application development tools as well as client server and web-based products for the international market. Harding joins SIMSCI following 12 successful years at Unisys. Most recently, he served as director of development at the Australian Center for Unisys Software in Sydney. Prior to serving in this position, Harding worked in other software management and development roles for Unisys in the US and managed development groups based in New Zealand, Latvia, India and the Philippines.
Prior to Unisys, Harding served in various programming capacities for Australian companies such as Logan City Council in Brisbane, W.A. Deutscher Ltd. and BGJ Steelstocks in Melbourne.
SIMSCI, an Invensys company, is a worldwide supplier of commercial simulation and optimization software and related services to the petroleum, petrochemical and industrial chemical process industries as well as to engineering and construction firms. SIMSCI's products are designed to increase profitability by reducing capital investment costs, improving yields and enhancing management decision making.
