Comm Engineering USA
Lafayette, La., has appointed James Moore as vice-president of engineering, and Yancy Williams as manager of projects, both located in Comm's Houston office.
Moore earned his engineering degree from Texas A&I University, and has 34 years of experience in engineering, operations, and business development.
Williams is a chemical engineering graduate of the University of Florida. He is responsible for management of design and project engineering, procurement, and execution of Comm projects.
Comm Engineering USA specializes in facility production maximization and environmental control technologies.
SpillGuard Technologies Inc.
Concord, Calif., has announced the appointment of Peter A. Mantas as president and chief executive officer. Mantas has over 18 years of domestic and international business development and alliance strategy experience. He earned a BS in electronics engineering technology from DeVry University, Chicago, and an MBA with emphasis in marketing and business strategy from Lewis University, Romeoville, Ill.
SpillGuard Technologies Inc. is a leading provider of spill prevention solutions for the fuel movement and petrochemical industry. Its core product, GuardDog, is developed to protect lives, the environment, and security with its innovative design.
Superior Energy Services
Harvey, La., has named Pat Bernard as vice-president and general manager of Superior Field Services, a new business unit integrating services of Production Management Industries, ISS, HB Rentals, and Environmental Treatment Team.
Bernard has 25 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, serving most recently as CFO of International Snubbing Services.
Superior Energy Services provides production-related services, rental tools, and lifeboats, worldwide.
Lone Star Steel Co.
Dallas, presented its Chief Roughneck award for 2003 to Anadarko Petroleum Corp. chairman, CEO, and president, Robert J. Allison, at a luncheon during the annual meeting of the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA). The lifetime achievement award has been presented each year since 1955.
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Honoring Allison in a video presentation were US Vice-President, Dick Cheney; Hunt Oil Co. chairman and CEO, Ray L. Hunt; and ExxonMobil chairman, Lee R. Raymond.
Lone Star Steel Co., a Dallas-based producer of oil field casing, tubing, and line pipe, instituted the Chief Roughneck award to recognize those whose accomplishments and character best represent the highest ideals of the oil and gas industry.
T.D. Williamson Inc.
Tulsa, has announced the acquisition of Dublin, Ireland-based Better Plug Co. (BPC) Ltd.
BPC has developed autonomous pipeline isolation technology used to repair leaking valves, damaged subsea pipelines, or risers, or during offshore pipe laying, abandonment, or tie-in operations. The technology acquisition will enhance TDW's position in the offshore maintenance marketplace.
Key BPC principal and co-founder, Ciaran Early, will remain with the company in Dublin.
T.D. Williamson Inc. is a leading pipeline service company providing engineered solutions for pipeline integrity and maintenance needs of the worldwide energy and petrochemical industries for more than 80 years.
Lee Keeling & Associates Inc.
Tulsa, has announced that Doug Lewis has joined the firm. His responsibilities include estimation of oil and gas reserves, appraisal of oil and gas properties, field studies of oil and gas producing and gas storage fields, formation evaluation, and enhanced recovery studies.
Lewis earned a BS in petroleum engineering from the University of Tulsa, and an MA in business management from the University of Nebraska.
Lee Keeling & Associates Inc., founded in 1960, is a petroleum engineering and geological consultancy.
Wood Mackenzie Ltd.
Edinburgh, Scotland, has appointed David Pruner as senior vice-president of energy consulting, part of the company's new North American consulting business, based in Houston.
Pruner has over 20 years of experience in the energy industry, including senior management positions with Enron, Azurix, and the Coastal Corp. He received a bachelor's degree from Southern Methodist University.
Wood Mackenzie Ltd. is a global energy and life sciences consulting company, providing a range of qualitative and quantitative research products.