Geoservices Group,
Paris, has acquired Petrospec Technologies Inc., Conroe, Tex., and Kuala Lumpur. Terms were not disclosed. Geoservices has appointed Petrospec Pres. and CEO Mark A. Herkommer CEO of its Petrospec division.
Geoservices provides a range of oil field services that help evaluate hydrocarbon reservoirs and optimize field exploration, development, and production, including mud logging, well intervention, and field surveillance.
Petrospec provides software and services for geopressure, rock property, and wellbore stability analyses from petrophysical and seismic data.
Oil States International Inc.,
Houston, through its subsidiary Oil States Industries Inc., has formed a joint venture with Uniao Engenharia Fabricacao e Montagem Ltda., Vila Velha, Brazil, to provide deepwater production and subsea pipeline solutions to Brazil’s expanding offshore construction industry. The JV, Oil States-Uniao SA, will be based in Vila Velha. The two companies have collaborated for several years for client Petroleo Brasileiro SA off Brazil. The JV will leverage Uniao’s local manufacturing expertise, relationships, and facilities while making Oil States’ deepwater technologies more readily available in the region.
Oil States International manufactures products for deepwater production facilities and subsea pipelines and provides services to the oil and gas industry, including production-related rental tools, work force accommodations and logistics, oil country tubular goods distribution, and land drilling services.
Uniao Engenharia is a Brazilian supplier of engineering, manufacturing, and industrial assembly services, with facilities in Espirito Santo, Brazil.
Stabil Drill,
a subsidiary of New Orleans-based Superior Energy Services specializing in bottomhole assembly rental tools, has opened a new facility in Oklahoma City. The new facility has a complete inventory of downhole tools, including stabilizers, hole openers, roller reamers, non-magnetic collars and stabilizers, torque-subs, and pneumatic mud buckets.
Stabil Drill provides equipment and services worldwide, with full-service facilities in Louisiana, Texas, Wyoming, and Canada, as well as manufacturing and specialty machining facilities along the Gulf Coast, in Atlantic Canada, and in Scotland.
Superior Energy Services is a single-source provider of production-related services, rental tools, and liftboats worldwide.
Tracerco,
part of London-based Johnson Matthey PLC, has established a new service center in Shanghai. The new office will make Tracerco’s full range of diagnostic and measurement technologies available to operators across China. Tracerco provides a range of process diagnostics services and specialist measurement solutions to the world’s process industries, including oil and gas, refining, and petrochemicals.
Johnson Matthey is a specialty chemicals company focused on catalysts, precious metals, fine chemicals, and process technology.