Peak Well Services,
Perth, has added to its Aberdeen staff and moved into new offices as part of its effort to expand into Norway and Africa. Peak named Gordon Angus regional managing director, overseeing company operations across Europe and Africa.
Andy Stewart was appointed wireline and intervention specialist and charged with supporting a new range of Simlock retrievable bridge plug tools and services.
Helen Rankin was named office manager. They join Scott Mitchell, regional sales manager. Peak expects its Aberdeen staff to number 30 in the next few years, with construction to begin soon on a new facility at Aberdeenshire, Scotland, to sell and rent tools along with providing training and offshore services. Plans also call for employing a regional design engineer to support North Sea customers.
Peak Well Services, a subsidiary of The Peak Group, is a specialist design, manufacture, and service support company to the offshore oil and gas industry. The company provides both operating and service companies with an extensive range of innovative well intervention products, solutions, and operational product support. It has developed a wide product range that includes high-performance wireline fishing tools and flow control devices.
Wartsila Corp.,
Helsinki, will establish a new, centralized environmental products know-how unit, dubbed Delivery Centre Ecotech (DC Ecotech), effective in January 2009. The new unit will focus on developing and delivering environmental technologies, as well as products for emissions reduction and efficiency improvement. DC Ecotech will be a global unit within Wartsila and is to be headed by Juha Kytola, president of Wartsila Finland, and currently also vice-president, Delivery Centre Vaasa, Finland. DC Ecotech will act as Wartsila’s center for developing tailor-made emissions-reducing technologies. DC Ecotech will focus on the further development of these technologies and on a portfolio of products that can be produced in volume. Furthermore, in promoting and providing legislation know-how, the unit will help customers comply with environmental rules and regulations as they become increasingly stringent.
Wartsila provides lifecycle power solutions and services to the marine and energy markets.
Garneau Inc.,
Nisku, Alta., has appointed Terry J. Winnitoy chief development officer. He will work out of the company’s Calgary sales office and lead all aspects of business growth for Garneau, including corporate business development strategy, sales and marketing, and brand development for coating, manufacturing, and Garneau’s new product, Reelpipe. Previously, Winnitoy was cofounder and vice-president, business development and sales, for Builders Energy Services Trust. Prior to that, he spent 9 years as president of Canadian Alliance Corporate Finance Inc., specializing in finance alternatives for private and public companies primarily involved in the oil and gas services and construction industries. He also led sales and marketing teams at GE Capital and First City Capital.
Winnitoy has more than 20 years of senior executive experience in both the public and private sector, which includes developing and executing strategies in the areas of sales, marketing, finance, acquisitions, contract negotiations, brand development, budgeting, and cost control.
Garneau provides high-performance protective coatings and linings for oil and gas pipeline protection and designs and fabricates oil field equipment for both domestic and international markets.
Curtiss-Wright Corp.,
Roseland, NJ, has promoted David J. Linton and David C. Adams to the newly created positions of Co-Chief Operating Officers. Linton previously was president of the company’s Flow Control segment, and Adams president of its Motion Control segment. As part of the realignment, Adams will also assume responsibility for the Metal Treatment segment, replacing Edward Bloom, who will retire in April 2009 and then serve as a consultant to the company. Since taking over as president of the Flow Control segment in May 2004, Linton has aligned an extensive product portfolio within the core markets of oil and gas, power generation, defense, and general industry. Adams joined Curtiss-Wright’s Motion Control segment in 2000 and led the global development of the Integrated Sensing division, including a 2-year relocation to the UK. Bloom joined Curtiss-Wright in 1973 and participated in its growth to become the world leader in shot peening services.
Curtiss-Wright is a diversified company that designs, manufactures, and overhauls products for motion control and flow control applications and provides a variety of specialized metal treatment services.
CGGVeritas,
Paris, has made a friendly offer to acquire 100% of Wavefield Inseis ASA, Oslo, in a share exchange valuing the deal at about $310 million. The acquisition gives CGGVeritas three high-capacity 3D seismic vessels, three medium-capacity 3D seismic vessels, and two 2D seismic vessels, as well as Wavefield’s seabed fiber optic technology for reservoir monitoring
Wavefield is a Norwegian pure-play seismic company that operates a fleet of eight vessels and develops geophysical equipment based on fiber optic technology.
CGGVeritas is a leading international pure-play geophysical company delivering a wide range of technologies, services, and equipment to the global oil and gas industry.
