KPMG LLP,
New York, has appointed Samir Khushalani to its Business Performance Services practice in Houston, as a principal. With over 15 years of experience, he will provide advisory services in the area of procurement and supply chain management, mainly for oil and gas industry clients. Khushalani is a certified Project Management Professional and a member of the Project Management Institute. A resident of Houston, he has an MS in electrical engineering from Rice University.
KPMG LLP is the US unit of KPMG International, one of the world’s largest audit, tax, and advisory firms.
Wescorp Energy Inc.,
Houston and Calgary, has acquired certain assets and intellectual property from FEP Services Inc., a private Canadian firm specializing in water remediation. The acquisition, terms of which were not disclosed, expands Wescorp’s suite of solutions to encompass water remediation and water-oil-solid/hydrocarbon-waste solid separation.
Wescorp is an energy services and engineering company committed to commercializing new technologies designed to increase existing production while also increasing economically recoverable petroleum reserves.
Mustang Engineering LP,
Houston, has named John Ellison manager of Mustang’s pipeline business unit. He succeeds David Edgar, who has retired. Ellison, who joined Mustang in 1998, has 37 years of pipeline experience. He previously owned Gibbs Ellison, a pipeline services company. Most recently, Ellison served as Mustang’s manager of pipeline field services.
Mustang, a subsidiary of John Wood Group PLC, specializes in design, engineering, procurement, project management, and construction management for upstream oil and gas, midstream, pipeline, automation and control, refining and petrochemicals, and process and industrial clients.
Ryder Scott Canada,
Calgary, has named Howard Lam manager of operations and managing senior vice-president. He has more than 30 years experience in the oil and gas industry, primarily in reservoir engineering and management and reserves evaluation. Lam has worked for Ryder Scott for more than 10 years. Previously, he worked for Pembina Corp., Husky Oil Operations Ltd., Esso Resources Canada Ltd., and Alberta’s Energy Resources Conservation Board. Lam has undergraduate and MS degrees in chemical engineering from McGill University and the University of British Columbia, respectively.
Ryder Scott Canada is a branch of Houston-based Ryder Scott Co. LP. Founded in 1937, Ryder Scott firm independently certifies petroleum reserves quantities for financing, acquisitions and divestitures, regulatory reporting, internal quality assurance, and other purposes.