Services/Suppliers

Asker, Norway, has appointed Kristian Johansen CFO to replace Arne Helland, who will continue as CFO until May 1, 2010. Previously, Johansen was executive vice-president and CFO of EDB Business Partners in Oslo, one of the largest IT groups in the Nordic region. He also has experience in the construction, banking, and oil industries. Johansen has undergraduate and master's degrees in business administration from the University of New Mexico.

TGS-NOPEC provides geoscience data products and services to the oil and gas industry. The company designs and acquires multiclient data projects worldwide that make up its data library of seismic, gravity/magnetic, and well data, enhanced by its seismic imaging technology and regional interpretation expertise.

Global Industries Ltd.,

Houston, has named Trudy P. McConnaughhay vice-president and controller. In this role, she will be responsible for worldwide financial reporting and accounting. McConnaughhay joined Global in 1999 as assistant corporate controller and has since held several other financial management roles, including director of finance and tax and corporate controller. She is a graduate of McNeese State University and has more than 30 years of experience in both public and private accounting. Global also announced that Peter A. Atkinson, president, will act as principal financial officer until the company concludes its search for a CFO to replace Jeffrey B. Levos, who resigned in November 2009.

Global provides offshore construction, engineering, project management, and support services, including pipeline construction, platform installation and removal, deepwater/SURF (subsea umbilicals, risers, and flowlines) installations, IRM (inspection, repair, and maintenance), and diving services to the oil and gas industry worldwide.

OEG Offshore Ltd.,

Aberdeen, has been formed through the merger of Containental Offshore Ltd. and Vertec Engineering Ltd. All previous Vertec and Containental staff will be retained in the new company, which now employs nearly 100, with plans to increase this number throughout 2010. OEG Offshore will continue to operate out of Vertec and Containental's former bases in the Aberdeen area. OEG Offshore has already committed to spending £7.5 million to increase its rental fleet of cabins and cargo carrying units and will make additional investments over the next 12 months, as well as focus on staff training and recruitment in a bid to further strengthen the company's abilities in engineering and design.

OEG specializes in the design, build, and rental of cabins and cargo carrying units for the offshore oil and gas market.

GL Noble Denton,

London, has announced its launch as a newly rebranded technical service provider for the oil and gas industry, with a comprehensive service portfolio combining former marine and offshore consultancy Noble Denton with Germanischer Lloyd's oil and gas division.

GL Noble Denton is part of the GL Group and currently employs over 2,900 technical and operations specialists and experts in 54 offices throughout the globe. Over the next 2 years GL Noble Denton plans to hire more than 700 new technical personnel, engineers, and marine operations specialists. John Wishart became president of GL Noble Denton in January 2010. He joined Noble Denton in October 2008 as group managing director and is a chartered engineer with a BS in chemical engineering. He has a wide international portfolio with more than 25 years experience in the upstream and downstream sectors of the oil and gas business.

GL Noble Denton supports and assists oil and gas clients in all technical, safety and assurance questions involving onshore production, onshore pipelines, storage, import terminals, LNG facilities, refineries and petrochemical plants, and distribution networks, as well as mobile offshore drilling units, floating production systems, fixed platforms, subsea and riser systems, offshore support vessels, tankers and shipping. and offshore pipelines.

GE Energy Oilfield Technology (OFT),

Yately, UK, has been realigned from GE Energy Services to GE Oil & Gas. The move strengthens and expands the GE Oil & Gas drilling and production portfolio offering to customers, extending the business reach with directional drilling, formation evaluation systems, and wireline solutions for oil and gas exploration and production.

OFT designs and manufactures wireline and drilling measurement solutions for the oil field services sector through its Tensor, Reuter Stokes, Geolink, and Sondex products lines.

GE Oil & Gas is a world leader in advanced technology equipment and services for all segments of the oil and gas industry, from drilling and production, LNG, pipelines, and storage to industrial power generation, refining, and petrochemicals.

Electromagnetic Geoservices ASA (EMGS),

Trondheim, Norway, has appointed Dag W. Reynolds executive vice-president, sales/marketing and business development. Reynolds has 20 years experience in the oil and gas industry. Previously, he was CEO for the seismic company SeaBird Exploration Ltd. from 2005 to 2007. Prior to that, he worked for Petroleum Geo-Services ASA for 9 years, where he was central in building PGS to market leader in the North Sea FPSO (floating production, storage, and offloading) market. In 2007, he cofounded Spring Energy ASA, a Norwegian oil company, and has since worked as an independent consultant.

EMGS uses its proprietary electromagnetic (EM) technology to support oil and gas companies in their search for offshore hydrocarbons. Its services enable integration of EM data with seismic and other geophysical and geological information to give explorationists a clearer and more complete understanding of the subsurface. EMGS operates the world's first purpose-built 3D EM vessel fleet.

Baker Botts LLP,

Houston, has named John F. Sheedy partner in the firm's global projects department in its Moscow office. Sheedy, who has built an extensive legal practice in oil and gas, natural resources, mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions, has more than 20 years of experience in representing both Russian and foreign clients in transactions involving Russia. During his 2 decades of work in Russia, Sheedy has represented a number of energy companies in a variety of projects, including oil and gas ventures, well workover projects, pipeline projects, and, most prominently, production sharing agreements. When the Russian economy diversified in the late 1990s and early 2000s, his client base expanded to include cross-border mergers and acquisitions in the country, including private equity deals. Sheedy earned his undergraduate degree in Russian and linguistics from Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and his law degree from the University of Michigan. Prior to joining Baker Botts, he was a partner with Orrick (CIS) LLC, an affiliate of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, and formerly had practiced with Coudert Brothers.

Baker Botts is a leading international law firm with offices in Abu Dhabi, Austin, Beijing, Dallas, Dubai, Hong Kong, Houston, London, Moscow, New York, Riyadh, Washington, DC, and Palo Alto, Calif.

Knowledge Reservoir,

Houston, has announced plans to realign and strengthen its business structure and service offering to enable the company to more aggressively pursue several key market initiatives. The company is dividing its business lines into a series of consulting practices.

The reservoir management business is being refocused into four practices: deepwater, improved recovery and field redevelopment, unconventional resources, and reserves and mergers/acquisitions. Knowledge Reservoir also continues to expand its surface systems business along two practices: flow assurance and pipeline systems engineering. Its knowledge management business stream will be developed in three areas: the ReservoirKB deepwater knowledge base, knowledge base products, and knowledge management consulting, including data management solutions, an area in which the company sees considerable growth opportunities.

Knowledge Reservoir is a leading geosciences and engineering consulting company, with offices in Texas, California, the UK, Norway, Oman, and Malaysia.

Bjorge ASA,

Tananger, Norway, has named Steinar Aaslund president and CEO. He succeeds Stig Feyling following the assumption of control of Bjorge by private equity funds Aker Capital fund and HitecVision. Previously, Aasland was managing director of Ahlsell Norge since 2004. From 1992 to 2004, he held several managerial positions at Stavanger Rorhandel, later acquired by Ahlsell. Aasland's educational background encompasses machine technology and a master's in corporate management and strategy. Feyling, Bjorge's CEO the past 3 years, will undertake key positions in other companies owned by HitecVision. In addition, Bjorge named Trine Saether Romuld as executive vice-president in charge of finance and treasury, effective Mar. 10, 2010. Previously, she was CFO and investment director of Converto Capital Management, which serves as investment advisor to Aker Capital Fund. Saether Romuld, a state-authorized public accountant and graduate of the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, was previously group executive vice-president of Aker ASA, CFO of Aker Drilling, and CFO of Marine Harvest.

Bjorge supplies products and systems and full range solutions for the oil and gas industry in the areas of pumps, valves, fiscal metering, instrumentation, automation, monitoring, fire and gas detection and extinguishing systems, as well as advanced surface treatment.

Lufkin Industries Inc.,

Lufkin, Tex., has elected John Hofmeister to its board of directors. Hofmeister is a former president and US country chair for Shell Oil Co. US and a former human resources group director for Royal Dutch/Shell Group in The Hague. Previously, he held various marketing, business development, and human resources management positions with Allied Signal (now Honeywell) in Hong Kong and Paris, Northern Telecom (now Nortel), and General Electric. He is founder and current CEO of Citizens for Affordable Energy Inc., a Washington, DC, based not-for-profit organization. Hofmeister also serves as an independent director on the board of UK-based Hunting PLC.

Lufkin sells and services oil field pumping units, foundry castings, and power transmission products throughout the world.

Mustang Engineering,

Houston, has named Richard Seale president of the company's automation and control business unit, succeeding Don Colchin, who has retired. Previously, Seale was manager of projects for the unit. Seale has over 30 years of experience in the automation industry and has held various positions in automation engineering and project management in refining, chemicals, and offshore and onshore oil and gas. He is a certified project management professional and a registered professional engineer in Texas. Colchin joined Mustang in 1996 with a core group of automation professionals, including Seale, to develop Mustang's automation and control business unit. Under his leadership, the business unit has grown to a staff of more than 200, has offices in three US cities, and was recently named Control Engineering magazine's 2010 System Integrator of the Year for companies with revenue greater than $50 million.

Mustang, a Wood Group company, provides services to the global oil, gas, chemical, and manufacturing industries, specializing in design, engineering, procurement, project management, and construction management, and offers these services through its six business units: upstream oil and gas, midstream, pipeline, automation and control, refining and petrochemicals, and process and industrial.

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