Services/Suppliers

Oct. 6, 2008

T.D. Williamson Inc.,

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Tulsa, has promoted Bruce Binkley to president and CEO. Binkley replaces Dick Williamson, who has led the company for the past 16 years and who will continue as chairman of the board. Since 2005, Binkley has served as president and COO for TDW. Prior to that, he was senior vice-president and general manager of TDW’s Western Hemisphere region. He has 29 years of experience in financial and operational management for companies such as Phillips Petroleum and Unit Rig & Equipment, including 21 years in various roles with TDW. He joined the TDW board on December 9, 2004. A CPA, Binkley also has a BBA from Harding University, a Master’s in tax, and an MBA in international business from the University of Tulsa.

TDW provides a wide range of integrity solutions to the global pipeline industry.

Acergy SA,

London, has been awarded a $60 million contract from BP Norge AS for the installation of 10 dynamic flexible riser systems, two dynamic umbilicals, and a direct electrical heating dynamic cable for BP’s Skarv oil field development project off Norway. Installation is to begin in second half 2010.

Acergy is a seabed-to-surface engineering and construction contractor for the offshore oil and gas industry worldwide.

Expro,

Aberdeen, has won a contract from Talisman Energy (UK) Ltd. for slickline, well testing, and subsea landing string services on Talisman’s platforms and modules. The 5-year contract is worth about £32 million. Expro will provide mechanical wireline intervention services; subsea safety systems, including its large bore landing strings; and drill stem testing well test and clean-up packages.

Expro is a market leader in providing services and products that measure, improve, control, and process flow from high-value oil and gas wells.

BJ Services,

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Houston, has formalized its global shale technology team, a group of experts focused on the research, development, and delivery of technology solutions to customers operating in shale oil and gas reservoirs worldwide. This group will support BJ’s regional teams currently in place in the US and Canada and add new technologies to the company’s arsenal as they are identified. Randy LaFollette serves as BJ Services’ manager of shale technology. The team, based at Tomball, Tex., comprises geological, geomechanical, and engineering services focused on understanding the reservoir stresses and rock-pore system properties before recommending a fit-for-purpose completion technique. The group works with regional teams in gathering data, performing field studies, and developing a network solutions to the challenges of shale oil and gas reservoirs. BJ Services’ geological, geomechanical, and special core analysis laboratories are a critical part of this team. The laboratories are being expanded to include some of the most sophisticated reservoir characterization tools available and will provide a clearer understanding of the unique reservoir properties that ultimately drive completion optimization.

BJ Services is a leading provider of field development and production enhancement services to the energy industry.

AMEC PLC,

London, has been awarded a 5-year program management consultancy (PMC) contract by Zakum Development Co. (ZADCO) in Abu Dhabi. The reimbursable contract is estimated to be worth $75 million—the largest oil-related PMC contract ever awarded by ZADCO. AMEC will provide engineering, consultancy, and project management services extending from concept stage through front-end engineering design, design, construction, and commissioning of several projects on the multibillion-dollar Upper Zakum full field development program. The program began in 2007 and is expected to be completed by 2013. Among the projects in which AMEC will be involved are the replacement of the 60-km main subsea oil pipeline, expansion of onshore/offshore gas treatment facilities, development of the east and west areas of the field, and a major program of work to increase offshore crude production capacity from 500,000 b/d to 750,000 b/d.

AMEC supplies consultancy, engineering, and project management services to the world’s energy, power, and process industries.

Tenaris,

Luxembourg, has announced plans to increase its production capacity for seamless pipe by installing a 450,000 ton/year small-diameter (up to 7 in.) rolling mill in Veracruz, Mexico. Cost of the mill, together with associated iron and steel making and finishing facilities, is pegged at $1.6 billion. Start-up is slated for 2011.

Tenaris is a leading global supplier of steel tubes and related services for the world’s energy industry and certain other industrial applications.

Global Foresight Group,

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Minneapolis, has named Peter Vincent senior consultant. He has more than 3 decades of experience in process instrumentation engineering, sales, marketing, and general management. Previously, Vincent was engineering manager at Rosemount and engineering director and sales and marketing director at Thermo Measurement. He will head up the effort to expand Global Foresight’s ReMaP assessment program to the UK and ultimately the rest of Europe.

Global Foresight Group provides management consulting and market research studies to the instrumentation and automation industries.

MAN Turbo AG,

Oberhausen, Germany, has agreed to acquire HB Turbo, a privately held turbomachinery service specialist with workshops in Deer Park and Corpus Christi, Tex., that caters to the oil and gas, chemical, and petrochemical industries in the US Gulf Coast region. Terms weren’t disclosed.

HB Turbo provides repairs, revamps, and commissioning, as well as manufacture of spare parts for turbocompressors and steam and gas turbines.

MAN Turbo offers a comprehensive product line of compressors and turbines.

ITT Corp.,

Rochester, NY, has announced that Northern Natural Gas (NNG) has selected its Airborne Natural Gas Emission LIDAR (ANGEL) Services to perform pipeline leak surveys and corridor monitoring work in New Mexico, Texas, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas, and Michigan. The contract also includes a new application of ITT’s ANGEL Services: aerial leak surveys and mapping of NNG’s 30,000-acre, 62 bcf Cunningham, Kan., storage field. Since 2006, ITT’s ANGEL Services has flown and collected more than 3,000 miles of pipeline leak surveys and corridor mapping imagery for NNG, from the Permian basin in Texas to the upper Midwest. More than 30 unaccounted-for pipeline leaks and facility emissions have been detected, including multiple underground pipeline leaks. ITT’s ANGEL Services utilizes differential absorption LIDAR laser technology to pinpoint otherwise undetected gas pipeline leaks.

ITT is a diversified high-technology engineering and manufacturing company dedicated to creating more livable environments, enabling communications, and providing protection and safety.

Rosen Group,

Stans, Switzerland, has appointed Daryl Ronsky general manager for Rosen Canada. He will be responsible for the overall success of Rosen Canada, which provides inspection and cleaning services, as well as asset integrity management support to the oil and gas industry. Ronsky has a strong background in engineering, consultancy, and pipeline integrity-related issues

Rosen provides integrity solutions to the oil and gas industry, including inspection, rehabilitation, and monitoring of pipelines, storage tanks, and plants.

Senscient Inc.,

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League City, Tex., has elected John S. Filla chairman of the board. He has over 15 years of global experience in the field of instrumentation and controls, with a focus on health, safety, and environmental applications. Filla is also active in the funding, M&A activities, and management of several other early-stage companies where he provides guidance on a broad spectrum of strategic, financial, and operational matters. He has been involved with Senscient since participating in the company’s 2006 Series A investment round and joining as an outside director. He has specified and sold fire and gas detection systems in the hydrocarbon processing and power industries throughout his career, which included assignments at companies such as Invensys and ABB.

Senscient was established in 2004 to develop, manufacture, and market advanced gas detection products for industrial safety, environmental monitoring, and process analysis applications.

Nalco Holding Co.,

Naperville, Ill., has formed a 50-50 joint venture with Stepan Co., Northfield, Ill., to globally market custom-engineered, integrated chemical enhanced oil and gas recovery technologies. Operating under the Tiorco brand, the JV provides an integrated sales and service channel that benefits from Nalco’s extensive reach in global upstream energy markets, its recently acquired EOR polymer and reservoir expertise, and Stepan’s global surfactant technology and manufacturing capabilities. Tiorco will also serve as a primary sales and engineering service channel for Nalco’s BrightWater reservoir efficiency technology.

Nalco is a leading water treatment and process improvement company.

Stepan Company is a leading producer of specialty and intermediate chemicals used in industrial and other products.

KBC PLC,

London, has introduced an alternative fuels and feedstocks service to companies considering building or operating alternative fuel plants or utilizing alternative feedstocks. The service addresses the need to optimize designs and operations to maximize yields of high-value products, minimize energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions, ensure reliability, and operate at optimum staffing levels using best practice systems, work processes, procedures, and tools.

KBC is a leading independent consulting, process engineering, and software group that delivers improved operating performance to the oil refining, petrochemical, and other process industries worldwide.

InterMoor Inc.,

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Houston, has named Randy Mautz quality, health, safety, and environment (QHSE) director. Based at InterMoor’s Houston office, Mautz has over 20 years of experience in quality management. He will be responsible for the coordination of all of InterMoor’s QHSE issues worldwide. Prior to joining InterMoor, Mautz worked at HMT Inc. as general manager of quality programs. He also served as the QHSE manager for Vetco Gray Controls Inc., where he implemented corporate QHSE policies and procedures.

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In addition, InterMoor has appointed Chuck Fontenot quality assistance and quality control manager. Based in InterMoor’s Amelia, La., office, he has 13 years of experience and will be responsible for the oversight of the day-to-day functioning of the company’s US quality program. Previously, Fontenot worked as a corporate human resource representative at Gulf Island Fabrication.

InterMoor, an Acteon company, designs, provides, and installs integrated mooring systems worldwide for the offshore oil and gas industry. Acteon is a group of specialist engineering companies serving the global oil and gas industry.