Services/Suppliers

May 28, 2007

Chadbourne & Parke LLP

New York, has announced the opening of an office in Dubai to provide a hub for the firm’s expanding energy/project finance and cross-border acquisition practices.

Jack Greenwald, a Chadbourne partner who has practiced law in Dubai since 1986, will head the Dubai office.

The firm’s client activities in the region have involved capital markets, privatizations, private placements, joint ventures, oil gas and petrochemical projects, and other infrastructure projects, as well as international arbitration.

Chadbourne & Parke LLP is a multinational law partnership, first established in 1902.

GE Oil & Gas

Houston, has acquired the assets of the former Preco service center from GE Energy. The center is totally dedicated to the oil and gas sector, and offers a broad range of support activities throughout North and South America. All makes and sizes of turbomachinery are served by the center, which employs approximately 100 people.

GE Oil & Gas is a world leader in advanced technology products and services, operating in all segments of the global oil and gas industry. Based in Florence, Italy, the company offers solutions for production, LNG, transportation, storage, refineries, petrochemicals, and distribution systems, as well as pipeline integrity solutions.

Verano Inc.

Mansfield, Mass., has announced its company name change to Industrial Defender Inc., adopting the name of its flagship product. This re-branding culminates nearly 20 years of experience in protecting critical infrastructure systems in the power, water, energy, transportation, and chemical industries.

Industrial Defender Inc. is the first company to offer a completely integrated cyber security solution designed to protect the real-time process control and SCADA environment in a flexible and cost effective platform. The company has more than 1,100 global deployments in securing critical infrastructure systems, and more than 3,000 mission critical SCADA deployments.

Cameron

Houston, has elected John C. Bartos as vice-president, development and technology.

Bartos joined Cameron in 2000, and most recently served as vice-president of engineering and product development for the compression systems group. He holds a bachelor of engineering degree from Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, and worked for Ingersoll-Rand and A-C Compressor prior to joining Cameron.

Cameron is a leading provider of flow equipment products, systems, and services to the worldwide oil, gas, and process industries.