Superior Offshore International Inc.,
Houston, has appointed E. Donald Terry as interim president and CEO following the resignation of James J. Mermis as president, CEO, and director. Mermis plans to join Kaplan Industry as its president of technical operations. Terry, with 45 years of experience in the subsea construction and commercial diving industry and currently an independent director of Superior, will serve until a successor is named.
Superior Offshore is a leading provider of subsea construction and commercial diving services to the offshore oil and gas industry.
Technip SA,
Paris, has named Kimberly Stewart vice-president, investor relations. Previously, she was head of investor relations at Faurecia, an equity analyst with Cheuvreux in Paris and London, and an equity analyst with Credit Suisse in London and New York. Stewart holds BA and MA degrees in international business from Evergreen State College and the University of Reading, respectively.
Technip is one of the top five firms worldwide in the field of oil, gas, and petrochemical engineering, construction, and services.
Jergens Inc.,
Cleveland, has appointed Jeff Martin as product manager for Kwik-Lok pins, inserts, and spring-loaded devices in the company’s tooling components division. Previously, he operated his own business related to the machine tool industry. Martin has a BS in industrial technology from Ohio University. He replaces Matthew Schron, who has been named general manager of Jergens Industrial Supply (JIS).
Jergens comprises the tooling components division, JIS, and the ASG division, all located in Cleveland, and Acme Industrial in Chicago. It is a manufacturer and distributor of tooling components and workholding products.
Weinman GeoScience,
Dallas and Houston, has named John Maher manager of seismic processing in its Denver office. With more than 12 years of worldwide experience in all phases of land and marine processing, he specializes in the complexities and issues of the Rocky Mountain region. Previously, Maher worked at GX Technology (Axis) and WesternGeco.
Weinman provides expert consulting, seismic data processing, geophysical, geological, and engineering services to the oil and gas industry.
Delta Services,
Houston, has appointed Jeffrey M. Bender as vice-president in its retained search energy practice. He has more than 30 years of human resources leadership in the upstream oil and gas, refining, chemicals, and metals industries. Previously, Bender was vice-president, human resources, for Apache Corp. Prior to that, he worked for Vastar Energy Resources and ARCO.
Delta Services is a global energy retained executive search firm, providing retained search services, from senior-level petrotechnical individual contributors to executive-level management.