Canyon Offshore
Houston, has named Shawn Moore to the position of regional sales representative. Moore will be responsible for promoting Canyon Offshore's subsea and Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) capabilities and services throughout the Americas.
Moore has extensive ROV experience, both as an operator and in a supervisory capacity, and worked for several subsea contractors prior to joining Canyon Offshore in 1997. Over the last several years, he has supervised ROV intervention and support activities on a number of high profile, deepwater developments.
With operations in the Gulf of Mexico, Asia Pacific, and the North Sea, Canyon Offshore provides ROVs, manpower, and subsea intervention support for all phases of deepwater exploration, drilling, construction, and production, as well as pipeline/cable trenching and burial.
Nash Engineering Co.
Trumbull, Conn., named Edward F. (Ned) Cunningham as president and COO. Cunningham will be responsible for all operating functions including manufacturing, aftermarket, paper, sales, marketing, and engineering as well as all international operations.
Cunningham joined Nash in 1977 and most recently was president of standard products and paper systems. Prior to that he was vice-president for the standard products business unit and held various other positions in the corporation. He has a mechanical engineering degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
Founded in 1905, Nash Engineering provides vacuum and compressed gas technology with a network of manufacturing, service, and distribution facilities around the world.
Sabin Metal Corp.
East Hampton, NY, purchased a 120,000 sq ft processing facility in Williston, ND, and has formed Sabin Metal West to operate the new plant. This facility employs electric arc furnace technology to recover precious metals from catalysts used by petroleum, petrochemical, and chemical processing organizations.
The Williston facility is specially equipped to sample and process soluble and insoluble alumina, silica-alumina, and zeolite PGM supports from petroleum, petrochemical, and chemical processing organizations. An electric arc furnace at the facility augments the company's existing precious metals refining capabilities. The new facility is expected to be fully operational in early 2001, and will operate as an adjunct to the company's main refinery in Scottsville, NY.
Sabin Metal Corp. is a privately owned precious metals refinery in its 55th year.
OpenLink
Mitchel Field, NY, has named Kevin Hesselbirg COO. In his new position, Hesselbirg will oversee the company's day-to-day operating activities, including product and service delivery, new client opportunities, resource management and allocation, and strategic business planning. In addition, Hesselbirg will continue serving as CFO until his replacement has been selected.
Hesselbirg joined OpenLink as CFO in 1999 from Trex Medical Corp., a subsidiary of Thermo Electron Corp., where he was vice-president of finance for two wholly owned subsidiaries. Hesselbirg began his career at Ernst & Young, where he was audit manager focused primarily on growth-oriented emerging publicly traded companies. He earned a bachelor's degree from Fordham University.
Founded in 1992, OpenLink is a developer of financial and energy trading and risk management software.
Global Industries Ltd.
Houston, named Drew Michel as vice-president of deepwater development. Michel will oversee the company's deepwater development team in the expansion of Global's worldwide deepwater market. He will also assume responsibility for the company's remotely operated vehicle (ROV) services and continue to oversee its information technology function.
Michel joined Global Industries in late 1995 as vice-president of deepwater technology. He has more than 33 years of experience in the marine construction industry, including nearly 10 years as founder and sole principal of ROV Technologies Inc., a provider of remote underwater intervention consulting services to the offshore oil and gas industry. He joined Global Industries with the company's acquisition of ROV Technologies. Michel is a fellow in the Marine Technology Society and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Global Industries provides pipeline construction, platform installation and removal, and diving services to the oil and gas industry in the deepwater and shallow-water areas of the Gulf of Mexico, West Africa, Asia Pacific, Middle East/India, South America, and Mexico's Bay of Campeche.
Global Industries Ltd.
Carlyss, La., has named Peter Atkinson president of the company. Atkinson joined Global Industries in 1998 as vice-president and CFO. Prior to joining Global, Atkinson served as director of financial planning with J. Ray McDermott S.A. He has 33 years of experience in financial management and accounting, including more than 20 years of experience in various domestic and international capacities at McDermott International Inc., and J. Ray McDermott S.A.
The company also named Tim Miciotto as vice-president and CFO. Miciotto has 32 years of experience in both domestic and international financial management positions with McDermott International Inc. He holds a master's degree in accounting from Louisiana State University.
Global Industries provides pipeline construction, platform installation and removal, and diving services to the oil and gas industry in the deepwater and shallow-water areas of the Gulf of Mexico, West Africa, Asia Pacific, Middle East/India, South America, and Mexico's Bay of Campeche.
