Ziff Energy, Houston, Tex., has named Ron Ford senior associate. He has more than 30 years of industry experience. Ford is responsible for marketing natural gas products and services, primarily the firms North American Gas Strategy and Gas Custom Consulting services. The retainer service provides strategic information about North American gas markets to blue chip clients in Canada and the United States.
Ziff Energy Group provides strategic and tactical consulting on a range of gas related issues to leading firms in the North American gas industry, from its bases in Houston and Calgary. Ziff Energy also provides upstream exploration and production benchmarking.
MDC Technology, Teesside, U.K., has named Greg McCormack business development director for the hydrocarbon industry, Houston, Tex.
McCormack, previously a director of global downstream with Cambridge Energy Research Associates, has over 25 years of experience in the application of advanced technologies.
McCormack will be responsible for working with hydrocarbon industry clients in North and South America to add shareholder value to their organizations.
MDC Technology is a worldwide supplier of production optimization and performance monitoring solutions to the oil & gas, hydrocarbon processing, chemicals and power / utility industries. The company has global project delivery and support capability coordinated from offices in the UK and USA.
USF Filtration & Separations, St. Paul, Minn., has named Daniel J. Rojas district sales manager. Rojas will be responsible for sales of Johnson Screen's oil and gas products in La. and throughout Central and South America. He has many years of experience in sand control and gravel packing services, most recently with Halliburton Services.
Philip T. Seymour has been named to the technical sales and marketing staff. Seymour will be responsible for sales and technical support of SCHUMASOILRegistered screens-an innovative line of polyethylene well screens with particular advantages in fine-grain applications.
Seymour has many years experience in a variety of sales and management positions throughout the chemical, aluminum and filtration industries. He will be based in Asheville, No. Car.
Johnson Screens manufactures several advanced technologies for downhole sand control which have been successfully used in oil and gas and water wells of every description all over the world. Since inventing the continuous-slot screen, the company has continued to refine and develop new sand-control technologies including screens with integral gravel packing and those using new materials and constructions such as the sintered SCHUMAPROBERegistered screens.
