Canadian oil and gas firm EnCana Corp., which in May announced a bifurcation of its oil and gas businesses into separate companies, has designated the executives who will head the new firms.
GasCo executives include: Randall K. Eresman, president and chief executive officer; Sherri Brillon, executive vice-president and chief financial officer; Mike Graham, executive vice-president and president, Canadian division; Bill Oliver, executive vice-president and chief corporate officer; and Jeff Wojahn, executive vice-president and president, USA division.
IOCo executives include: Brian Ferguson, president and chief executive officer; Ivor Ruste, executive vice-president and chief financial officer; and Don Swystun, executive vice-president and president, Canadian Plains division.
Upstream moves
Medco Energi US has appointed four vice-presidents in a realignment of executive positions.
The appointed executives and new positions are: Daniel Fruge, vice-president and chief financial officer; Steve Goff, vice-president, petroleum engineering; Gary Johnson, vice-president, production operations; and Ted Russell, vice-president, drilling and capital projects.
Medco has also promoted John Young to senior vice-president, exploration and development.
Young has more than 25 years of engineering and management experience in the oil and gas industry. He previously served as manager of business development for Medco. He also has held various positions, including midvalue negotiated project manager for The Oil and Gas Asset Clearinghouse and vice-president, strategic planning and business development, for Baker Energy.
Enterra Energy Corp. has appointed Don Klapko as president, chief executive officer, and a director of the company.
Klapko, who has served as a senior executive management consultant to Enterra since November 2007, has more than 30 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. Most recently he served as president and director of Trigger Resources Ltd. Before that he served as vice-president, operations, for Rio Alto Exploration Ltd.
Toreador Resources Corp. has made several management changes.
Michael Fitzgerald, executive vice-president, exploration and production, and Edward Ramirez, senior vice-president, exploration and production, both resigned on June 27.
Regional management will now report directly to Nigel Lovett, chief executive officer and president.
Separately, John Gilboux has been promoted to vice-president, exploration, and will report to Lovett.
TXCO Resources Inc., San Antonio, has promoted Gary S. Grinsfelder to president.
Grinsfelder, formerly vice-president of exploration, succeeds James E. Sigmon, who remains chairman and chief executive officer.
Grinsfelder is a geologist with more than 30 years in the industry. He joined TXCO Resources in April 2007 when it acquired Output Exploration LLC, Houston, where he was vice-president of exploration and business development.
In addition to his role as president, in which he will report to Sigmon, he will manage the company’s land, exploration, legal, and investor relations and corporate communications departments.
Norwood Resources Ltd., Vancouver, BC, has named David Klepacki its vice-president of exploration.
Klepacki has been consulting for Norwood since July 2007. A geophysicist with 23 years in the industry, he has previously worked with Exxon Production Research, Esso Canada, and PanCanadian Petroleum Corp.
Norwood is evaluating an oil and gas discovery in western Nicaragua.
Approach Resources Inc. has promoted Glenn W. Reed to executive vice-president, engineering and operations, and Ralph P. Manoushagian to executive vice-president, land.
Reed has more than 28 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. He served as senior vice-president, operations, and was a founding officer of Approach, joining the company as vice-president, operations, in 2002.
Most recently Manoushagian served as senior vice-president, land. He joined Approach in 2004 as land manager.
EnerGulf Resources Inc., Vancouver, BC, has hired Campbell Cassidy as exploration manager for the Lotshi Block in Congo (former Zaire).
Cassidy, with more than 20 years’ experience as a drilling engineer and manager, has worked for Royal Dutch Shell PLC, BP PLC, Anadarko Petroleum Corp., Santa Fe Snyder Corp., and Baker Hughes Inc. His experience includes stints in Angola, Nigeria, Namibia, China, and the North Sea.
Other moves
The US Minerals Management Service, Gulf of Mexico division, has selected Mike Saucier to serve as regional supervisor for field operations.
Saucier began his career with MMS in 1984 as a staff engineer in the agency’s Houma, La., district where he worked on production and drilling issues. In 1988 he became the district’s drilling engineer and, in 1995 he was promoted to district supervisor, Houma district, in the Gulf of Mexico. Most recently, he served as deputy regional supervisor for district operations in the field operations office.
The Society of Independent Professional Earth Scientists has appointed H. Jack Naumann Jr., an independent petroleum geologist in Midland, Tex., to president for the 2008-09 term.
Other newly appointed 2008-09 officers are vice-president, Lee M. Petersen of Weatherford, Tex.; vice-president of national energy, William R. Finley of Lafayette, La; secretary, Marc D. Maddox of Midland; and treasurer, Kenneth J. Huffman of New Orleans.
IFP has appointed Remi Eschard director of its geology-geochemistry-geophysics division.
Eschard joined the division in 1989. Since 2005, he has supervised the reservoir characterization issue within the exploration and production technology business unit. Eschard also has worked in reservoir geology and the sedimentology-stratigraphy department within the division.
