Global Industries Ltd.,
Houston, has appointed two executives to lead the company’s commercial growth strategies, marketing, and business development activities. Eduardo Borja will rejoin Global as senior vice-president, global marketing and strategy, and John Katok will serve as senior vice-president, worldwide business development. Borja will be responsible for strategic planning, development, and implementation of the company’s growth strategies, including marketing of the company’s services for deepwater applications. He first joined Global in 2001, serving in leadership positions in both operations and business development in Latin America. He was named vice-president, Latin America, in 2002 and served in that role until mid-2008 when he resigned from Global. He holds a master’s in construction management from Universidad Iberoamericana and a bachelor’s in civil engineering from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Katok will lead Global’s efforts to enhance customer satisfaction by developing processes to improve client sponsorship, project planning, and project execution. He joined Global in early 2008 after 6 years with Technip Inc., where he served as commercial vice-president. Previously, he spent more than 25 years with Kellogg, Brown & Root in a variety of commercial, project management, and operational roles. Katok has a BS in civil engineering from West Virginia University.
Global Industries is a leading provider of solutions for offshore construction, engineering, project management, and support services, including pipeline construction, platform installation and removal, deepwater/SURF (subsea umbilicals, risers, and flowlines), IRM (inspection, repair, and maintenance), and diving to the oil and gas industry worldwide.
Smith International Inc.,
Houston, and Sub-One Technology, Pleasanton, Calif., have announced that they will jointly commercialize the application of Sub-One’s advanced InnerArmor coating technology for oil country tubular goods (OCTG) applications. The joint venture, Smith InnerArmor Coating Services (SIACS), has the exclusive license to supply a full range of OCTG coatings globally. InnerArmor coatings, which are applied to the internal surfaces of metallic components such as pipes, tubes, and other cylindrical items, increase resistance to corrosion, erosion, wear, and/or fouling. With a low friction coefficient, the coatings also improve flow properties for liquids and gases. By delivering InnerArmor coatings for the OCTG market, SIACS will enable its oil and gas customers to meet demanding E&P environments. Typical applications would entail coating production tubing in sour gas environments and in scale-prone wells and coating drill strings to reduce erosion and friction pressure loss.
Smith is a leading worldwide supplier of premium products to the oil and gas E&P industry, the petrochemical industry, and other industrial markets, operating through MI SWACO, Smith Technologies, Smith Services, and Wilson.
Sub-One is the market leader in advanced coatings for internal surfaces. It has developed a patented process and state-of-the-art systems for depositing its advanced coatings onto the internal surfaces of a broad spectrum of products ranging from small, complex components to long, large-diameter industrial piping, in particular pipe coating to combat pipeline corrosion.
Hunting PLC,
London, has sold its Canadian midstream unit Gibson Energy Holdings Inc. to a company owned by the Riverstone/Carlyle Global Energy & Power Fund for $1.258 billion (Can.).
Hunting is an international energy services provider to the world’s leading oil and gas companies in the upstream and midstream sectors, with four businesses: well construction, well completion, E&P, and petrochemical equipment. Gibson has five divisions: terminals and pipelines, truck transportation, marketing, asphalt refining/well site fluids, and propane marketing and distribution. Riverstone is a New York-based energy- and power-focused private equity firm founded in 2000 with about $14.8 billion under management. Riverstone conducts buyout and growth capital investments in the midstream, upstream, power, oil field services, and renewable sectors of the energy industry.
Wellbore Energy Solutions (WES),
Lafayette, La., has extended an agreement with DrawWorks LP to market and supply the DPC drill pipe circulating and flowback system to the Gulf of Mexico region. The DPC tool is a bail-mounted system that eliminates the need to make top drive connections to manage flowback of drilling fluids. It is applicable while running tight-tolerance casing liners, pumping or circulating on demand, or expanding casing.
WES is an oil field service company specializing in the rental of wellbore cleanup equipment throughout the Gulf of Mexico region and internationally.
DrawWorks designs, develops, manufactures, and sells products that assist in the running of tubulars in the finished wellbore, such as drill pipe, liners, casing, and tubing.
InterMoor Inc.,
Houston, has secured the exclusive license for torpedo pile technology in the US from Brazil’s state oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras). In the last 8 years, Petrobras has successfully installed more than 1,000 torpedo piles—essentially gravity-embedded cylindrically shaped projectiles—in order to anchor deepwater flowlines and facilities off Brazil.
InterMoor, an Acteon company, is a leading supplier of mooring technology, providing innovative solutions for rig moves and mooring services, including engineering and design, fabrication, and subsea installation.
Acteon is a group of specialist engineering companies serving the global oil and gas industry.