Alto Technology Resources Inc.
Houston, has named John McKeon to the new position of marketing director. He will direct Alto's domestic and international sales and marketing efforts.
McKeon served as principal research geologist for Atlantic Richfield Corp. for 11 years, and most recently was employed as regional sales manager for Earth Resource Mapping. He is certified as a mapping scientist in remote sensing by the American Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing.
He earned his BS in natural sciences from Johns Hopkins University, MS in geology from the University of Maine, and a PhD in geology from Ohio State University.
Alto Technology Resources is a wholly owned subsidiary of Texaco. Its Center of Excellence in Houston houses experts in hyperspectral remote sensing, Global Information System technology, mathematical and economic geology, mining, agriculture, forestry, and oceanography.
Expro International Group PLC
Reading and Aberdeen, UK, has announced the acquisition of US-based Production Wireline Services Inc. and its sister companies Produc-tion Wireline Services of Texas and Production Wireline Services Marine.
Production Wireline Services is a supplier of slickline services to the Gulf of Mexico, Texas, and Louisiana markets with operational bases in Jennings, La., and Mission and Hebronnville, Tex.
The acquisition gives the Expro Group entry into the highly active gas-driven markets of North America. The group, through PWS, will offer a complete range of cased hole services that can be deployed in the well by slickline. These services will include production logging, production perforating, and other explosive services that previously could only be run on electric line, as well as memory gauges, sampling, and tubing condition monitoring using the new digital Kinley caliper.
Expro International Group is an international oil field service provider of key products and services necessary to safely complete and manage oil and gas wells. The group employs over 2,000 people worldwide.
Miratech Corp.
Tulsa, has announced the formation of a separate subsidiary business to concentrate on expanding market opportunities for the company's Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) catalytic converter technology. The new entity will be named Miratech SCR Corp. John Vaughey has been named chairman and Bill Clary president of Miratech SCR, which will be based in Tulsa.
Miratech SCR is a national distri-butor for HUG Engineering in Switzerland, the developer of SCR catalytic converter technology, which reduces pollutants and exhaust gases emitted from diesel, dual-fuel, or lean-burn industrial combustion engines. Additionally, SCR converter systems are used in gas compression, liquid pumping, and marine propulsion operations.
Capstone Turbine Corp.
Chatsworth, Calif., has announced the new structure of its North Ameri-can sales operations and the appointment of four new sales vice-presidents. Named were Kevin Young, vice-president of distributor sales; Douglas Condon, vice-president of energy service provider sales; David McShane, vice-president of OEM sales; and Richard Carryer, vice-president of business development and sales for Canada.
Young previously served with Atlanta-based EIS, a division of Genuine Parts Co., where he led a team in electrical product sales to western US and Asia. Condon moved to Capstone from Enron Corp. McShane is a 3-year veteran at Capstone. Carryer was previously with ABB Alstrom Power of Canada for 20 years.
Capstone Turbine is a producer of low-emission microturbine systems.
It is the winner of Financial Times Energy's 2000 Global Energy Award for most innovative commercial technology.
