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Houston, has named LaShunda Hubbard inside sales engineer for its FlexStream line of control valves. She previously worked for Bechtel as a controls and instrument engineer. She also worked for the National Aeronautics & Space Administration as a data process system engineer and for Applied Materials, Austin, as a manufacturing engineer. Hubbard has a BS from Prairie View A&M University.

MOGAS is a leading provider of severe-service, metal-seated ball valves to the oil and gas, refining, petrochemical, and other industries.

ABS,

Houston, has promoted Joseph Brincat to vice-president, Middle East and Pakistan. Meanwhile, the ABS regional administrative office will relocate from Doha to Dubai. Brincat replaces Stephen Auger, who has been transferred to Busan, South Korea, to serve as vice-president, North Pacific, within the Pacific division of ABS that includes South Korea, Japan, and the Philippines. Previously, Brincat was district manager for the Middle East region, which includes Egypt and Libya. In addition, Martin Hruska has been promoted to country manager, Qatar. A 17-year veteran with ABS, Hruska will transfer from Singapore, where he was director, offshore technology and business development, for the Pacific division.

ABS is a leading international classification society devoted to promoting the security of life, property, and the marine environment through the development and verification of standards for the design, construction, and operational maintenance of marine-related facilities.

CGGVeritas,

Paris, has announced that ARGAS, one of its joint ventures with TAQA in the Middle East, has opened a technology center in Al Khobar, Saudi Arabia. The new facility is an open center designed to serve the oil and gas community in the kingdom with a suite of state-of-the-art capabilities and resources. The center offers a focal point for both local oil and gas players and researchers from the Earth Sciences Department of King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals to benefit from cooperation with R&D experts to address specific geophysical challenges; high-end processing and imaging technologies, including a visualization center; and access to training from CGGVeritas University. CGGVeritas said the center's goal is to locally apply and advance the processing algorithms it develops globally in order to unmask the embedded value of the seismic data it has been acquiring in Saudi Arabia for many years.

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

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