Services/Suppliers

Fugro Gravity & Magnetic Services,

CrabbHouston, has named Terry Crabb business development manager for the Australia/Asia region. He will be based in Perth and will be responsible for sales, marketing, and business development. Crabb has more than 30 years of geoscience experience, including serving as the chief geophysicist at Scintrex in Canada and as the CEO of Australian Geophysical Surveys in Perth. He is a member of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia, Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, and Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists, where he previously served as president. Crabb has a BS in geology/geophysics and an MBA from the University of Adelaide.

Fugro GMS is a part of Fugro, which interprets and processes data about the earth collected at sea, on land, and from the air.

AKITA Drilling Ltd.,

Calgary, has appointed Karl Ruud president and CEO, replacing John Hlavka, who is retiring. Ruud, previously president and COO, has extensive drilling experience in Canada and abroad and has been with AKITA since the company was formed.

AKITA is an Alberta drilling contractor.

Mako DeepWater,

Houston, has changed its name to Seanic Ocean Systems to reflect growth of its new product lines in deck equipment and handling systems, in addition to the continued growth of its subsea tooling business.

The company was formed to address the growing demand for simple, rugged, and reliable subsea tooling for remote intervention. Seanic now also offers design, manufacture, and repair of deck equipment such as A-frames, launch and recovery systems, heave compensation, and specialty winches, along with standard product line ROV tooling such as torque tools, flying lead orientation tools, standard and zero leak hot stabs, manifolds, buckets, and ROV interface panels.

Hampson-Russell Software & Services,

Houston, a CGGVeritas company, has opened a new technical support office in Villahermosa, Mexico. A resident team of geophysicists will provide onsite support for its advanced geophysical interpretation software to main client Pemex and other clients in Mexico. This team will join the CGGVeritas reservoir characterization services center already in place in Villahermosa. Hampson-Russell will also open a support office in Beijing later in the year.

CGGVeritas is a leading international pure-play geophysical company delivering a wide range of technologies, services, and equipment (through Sercel) to the global oil and gas industry.