Three industry associations have named new leadership to their top positions.
Thomas A. Fry III has been named president of the National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA). Fry replaces current NOIA Pres. Robert Stewart, who will retire Nov. 30 after working for NOIA since 1987 and working for more than 30 years in the energy industry.
Most recently, Fry served as the director of the US Department of Interior's Bureau of Land Management. Prior to that, from November 1998 through October 1999, Fry served as acting director. He first joined DOI as director of the Minerals Management Service in July 1993.
Richard Currence, executive vice-president of Tidewater Inc. and NOIA's chairman, said, "We are extraordinarily pleased to welcome Tom Fry as the president of NOIA. He has shown exemplary leadership and informed insight in his long career of public service."
Fry's experience includes positions as regional counsel for the US Department of Energy and as the director of the Houston Oil Field Office of the Economic Regulatory Administration.
D.N. Rose, president and chief executive officer of Questar Gas, Salt Lake City, has been elected to serve in 2001 as chairman of the American Gas Association.
Rose served in several capacities with AGA and was also named AGA's Marketing Executive of the Year in 1995. He is a director of the Western Energy Institute and served in the same capacity and in other leadership positions for its predecessor, the Pacific Coast Gas Association."During my year as chairman of AGA, I plan to emphasize a theme that we in the Pacific Coast Gas Association employed successfully several years ago: Right fuel, right time, right now," Rose said.
Stanley C. Horton, chairman and CEO of Enron Transportation Services Co., has been elected chairman of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America (INGAA) for 2001. Horton succeeds David A. Arledge, chairman, president, and CEO of Coastal Corp.
At its annual meeting in San Antonio last month, INGAA members also elected, as first vice-chairman, Michael E.J. Phelps, chairman and CEO, Westcoast Energy Inc., and as second vice-chairman, John W. Somerhalder II, executive vice-president, El Paso Energy Pipeline Group.
INGAA members also reelected Jerald V. Halvorsen as the association's president.
