Transocean Ltd.,
Zug, Switzerland, has named Richard H. Rosa senior vice-president and CFO effective Sept. 1. He will be based in Geneva and will succeed Gregory L. Cauthen. Rosa is currently senior vice-president of the company’s Europe and Africa unit. Previously, he served as senior vice-president of Transocean’s Asia and Pacific unit. Prior to that role, he was vice-president and controller and in a variety of international positions in finance for 19 years. Rosa has an MA from Oxford University and was qualified as a chartered accountant with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Transocean Ltd. is the world’s largest offshore drilling contractor and a leading provider of drilling management services worldwide.
Capstone Turbine Corp.,
Chatsworth, Calif., has named Aqua Nishihara as its distributor in Thailand. Aqua Nishihara will focus on microturbine system opportunities with oil and gas operations, offshore oil rigs, landfills, agricultural/biogas, and combined heat and power applications, as well as selling Capstone microturbines for wastewater treatment systems.
Capstone is a leading producer of low-emission microturbine systems to the energy industry and was the first to market commercially viable microturbine energy products.
Cegelec,
Paris, has signed a turnkey contract with Cote d’Ivoire refiner Societe Ivoirienne de Raffinage (SIR) to design, procure, build, and commission a new control system for the HSK3 hydroskimming unit at SIR’s 60,000 b/d refinery in Cote d’Ivoire. Work will begin this summer.
Cegelec is an international group that designs, installs, and maintains instrumentation and control systems and subsystems to the industrial, infrastructure, and service sectors.
Mustang Engineering,
Houston, has entered into a joint venture with Malaysia’s Petronas and Petronas’s shipping subsidiary MISC Bhd. to develop integrated floating LNG liquefaction, storage, and offloading solutions using Mustang’s LNG Smart liquefaction technologies. The JV is owned by Petronas 60%, MISC 30%, and Mustang 10% and will be headquartered in Kuala Lumpur. The first project will be the development of front-end engineering design for a floating LNG vessel, to be located off Malaysia. The project is expected to achieve first gas from a floating LNG FPSO facility in 2013.
Mustang, part of the UK-based Wood Group, specializes in design, engineering, procurement, project management, and construction management to the upstream oil and gas, midstream, pipeline, automation and control, refining and petrochemicals, and process and industrial sectors.
