Petrofac Ltd.
London, has announced the appointment of John Methven as director of group HSSE and integrity assurance. Methven, a petroleum production engineer and 10-year veteran of Petrofac, previously was UK managing director for Petrofac Facilities Management.
Petrofac Ltd. is a leading international provider of facilities solutions to the oil and gas production and processing industry. The company has three divisions: engineering and construction, operations services, and energy developments.
Knight Fishing Services
Houston, has named Mike Foster as Mid-Continent regional manager. Foster, who will be based at Knight’s Houston facility, has more than 27 years of management experience in the oil industry.
Knight Fishing Services, a division of Knight Oil Tools, operates from 22 locations across nine oil-producing states in the US.
Performance Pulsation Control Inc. (PPC)
Plano, Tex., has announced its acquisition of Odessa, Tex.-based Status Flow.
Status Flow offers a full line of gas-charged, pulsation control products, providing a good fit with the maintenance free pulsation control products of PPC.
Superior Manufacturing & Hydraulics Inc.
Broussard, La., has announced that it has been purchased by Canadian McCoy Corp. The transaction includes McCoy’s acquisition of Precision Die Technologies LLC, a provider of dies and inserts for oil field tools also headquartered in Broussard.
By acquiring Superior, McCoy has brought together two of the world’s leading tong manufacturers. Farr Canada, a McCoy company based in Edmonton, and Superior together have a significant global presence in most types and size ranges of power tongs.
The new acquisitions will be part of McCoy Corp.’s Energy Products & Services Group, joining Inotec Coatings & Hydraulics Inc., Farr Canada, and Rebel Metal Fabricators Ltd.
Roxar
Stavanger, has announced the opening of an office in Cairo, Egypt, in response to increasing demand in the region for the company’s integrated reservoir and production management solutions.
Roxar is a leading technology solutions provider to the global upstream oil and gas industry. The company was acquired in July 2007 by CorrOcean ASA, Trondheim.
