Bateman-Merrick Group LLC
Aurora, Colo., is a new company formed by a joint venture of Bateman Engineering Inc. and Merrick & Co. BMG is the combined Denver-based oil and gas operation of both companies placed under a single management team to better serve the infrastructure needs of the hydrocarbon processing and renewable energy industries.
BMG will be managed by Jay Powell, president; Elliot Trepper, executive vice-president; and Tom Bevington, manager of projects.
Bateman Engineering is the US operating company of Bateman Project Holdings Ltd., a global process-oriented engineering contracting group. In business over 75 years, Bateman has offices around the world and employs over 2,000 professionals.
Merrick & Co., founded in Denver in 1955, is a multidisciplinary engineering, architectural, GIS/mapping, and construction management firm. It has approximately 500 employees in five US offices.
Aurion Technologies Inc.
Dallas, has acquired the oil and gas division assets of F.W. Murphy Communications Solutions in exchange for an equity position in Aurion Technologies. Frank W. Murphy III will join the Aurion board of directors. The alliance integrates a suite of products that combines F.W. Murphy control instrumentation products with Aurion's communications hardware and web-based data service solutions for the upstream oil and gas industry. For the first time, producers and service companies can purchase on-site control systems and web-based remote monitoring solutions from one source.
F.W. Murphy, Tulsa, was established in 1939. It is an ISO 9001 registered manufacturer whose product line includes a broad range of engine and engine-driven equipment controls and monitoring systems.
Aurion Technologies, based in Dallas, provides internet-based natural gas and oil field automation equipment and services.
Grove
Shady Grove, Pa., has appointed Eugenio Frings as district manager, Latin America. Frings, who was previously with Finning in Chile, will operate from the Grove office in Santiago, and will serve as liaison for all Latin American distributors.
Grove has distribution in more than 125 countries on six continents plus manufacturing and development facilities and partners in North America, Europe, and Asia. Grove products are marketed as Grove Crane, National Crane, and Grove Manlift.
eVideo Management Inc.
Houston, has announced the appointment of Andrew L. (Drew) Michel as vice-president of business development and member of the board of directors. Michel has over 25 years of industry experience and most recently served as vice-president of information technology and deepwater development at Global Industries. He is well known in the oil and gas community for his active participation in the National Ocean Industries Association and the Society of Petroleum Engineers. He has received numerous awards for his contributions in the fields of underwater video and remote operated underwater vehicle technology.
eVideo Management is a provider of turnkey digital video monitoring systems and solutions for the oil and gas industry, with applications in remote land, offshore, and mobile locations.
Gas Technology Institute
Des Plaines, Ill., has named Melanie A. Kenderdine as vice-president of its Washington operations office in Arlington, Va.
Kenderdine, who earned a BA in political science from the University of New Mexico, served in several posts with the US Department of Energy prior to joining GTI. Most recently, she was director of the office of Policy for DOE. She was a key advisor on a variety of issues, including the California electric power crisis, establishment of a home heating oil reserve for the Northeast states, analysis of the DOE energy R&D portfolio and strategic energy policy, and White House initiatives for domestic oil and gas production. From 1998 to 2000, she was senior policy advisor to the Secretary of DOE for oil, gas, coal, and nuclear issues.
GTI was created in April 2000 by the merger of Gas Research Institute, which was founded in 1976, and the Institute of Gas Technology, founded in 1941. GTI offers research and technical services, R&D program management, technology commercialization, and education and training programs focused on natural gas.
Robertshaw Industrial Products
Maryville, Tenn., has announced the appointment of Angelo Firenze as director of marketing for the Centeron tank level monitoring system.
The Centeron system utilizes direct sequence spread spectrum technology to remotely monitor customer tank levels. Common applications are delivery of propane, gasoline, oil, diesel fuel, lubricants, bulk solids, home heating oil, water treatment chemicals, and other chemicals.
Robertshaw Industrial Products is a group within the Automation Systems Division of Invensys PLC, a worldwide provider of automation and controls, with more than 90,000 employees.
