Dresser Industries, Inc., Dallas, Tex., has announced the creation of Dresser Kellogg Energy Services to provide a single Dresser interface for energy companies seeking integrated services and solutions to the entire hydrocarbon recovery process. Operating worldwide, the new company has been established to handle the significant growth in demand for integrated services and project management in upstream oil and natural gas markets. Operating offices will initially be established in the United Kingdom, Houston, the Far East and Latin America.
Dresser Kellogg Energy Services will manage and facilitate the participation of all Dresser divisions on an integrated basis in upstream markets from well construction to the refining gate. The new company will serve as a single-source provider of integrated solutions involving technology, products, and services to expedite production and help maximize customers returns.
D. Keith Dodson has been named president of Dresser Kellogg Energy Services. He previously served as managing director and chief executive officer of M.W. Kellogg Limited, London. Dodson's primary focus will be centered on integrating well planning and construction with facilities and transportation design and construction, as well as developing opportunities for the new company in onshore and offshore oil and gas markets.
Chairman of the Board of Dresser Kellogg Energy Services is Sir Richard Morris. Also serving on the board are: The Right Honorable Tim Eggar, chairman of M.W. Kellogg Group Limited; Jack Stanley, Bob Menerey and Pat Murray, all Dresser operations vice presidents; Peter Evans, president of The M.W. Kellogg Co.; and Dr. Mike Stacey, chairman of Granherne.
Consulting Resources Group, Ltd. has opened a Houston office. Edward R. Ziegler is general manager.
Consulting Resources has offices in Peru and Singapore with corporate headquarters in Vancouver, B.C.
The Houston location provides consultants on contract and permanent basis, domestically and internationally, for companies in the oil and gas, chemical, and construction industries.
TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS
Foster Wheeler Environmental Corp., Clinton, N.J., has acquired the Seattle-based engineering firm of Hartman Associates, Inc.
Renamed Hartman Consulting Corp., the company provides underwater engineering, coastal engineering, marine dredging, regulatory planning and permitting, and waterway development services worldwide. It will operate as a subsidiary of Foster Wheeler Environmental Corp.
Foster Wheeler Environmental Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Foster Wheeler USA Corp., is an international environmental consulting, engineering, and construction firm providing a comprehensive range of environmental sciences and engineering disciplines.
Foster Wheeler USA Corp., a major U.S. subsidiary of Foster Wheeler Corp., designs, engineers and manages the construction of plant facilities for a wide range of industries, including petroleum refiners and chemical and pharmaceutical producers.
Foster Wheeler Corp. is a global company offering a broad range of design, engineering, construction, manufacturing, project development and management, research, plant operations and environmental services.
Pall Corp., East Hills, N.Y., has purchased 20% of Oiltools International Ltd., a specialized oilfield service company headquartered in Singapore.
Oiltools currently sells, distributes and provides certain manufacturing services for Pall Corp.'s family of StratapacRegistered sand control products for use in oil and gas wells.
Pall Corp. designs, manufactures and markets fine disposable filters, membranes and other fluid clarification and separations devices for the health care, aeropower and fluid processing markets.
Universal Oil Products Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. (UOP Asia Pacific), a new joint venture of U.S.-based UOP and Japan's Nikki-Universal Co. Ltd., has opened a Singapore office. The facility will serve as the U.S. parent company's regional headquarters for Asia Pacific.
UOP is an international supplier and licensor of technologies to oil-and gas-related industries.
Currently, UOP is involved in a major grassroots refinery project and a number of petrochemical complexes in Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia along with other Asia Pacific countries. These projects are integral components of the respective national economies of these countries.
From the Singapore location, UOP Asia Pacific will provide technical support and services, as well as supply highly advanced industrial products for UOP's process technology licensees and other customers in the Asia Pacific region. UOP Asia Pacific will continue to focus on UOP's core business segments: refining, aromatics and olefins.
Sandvik Steel, Sandviken, Sweden, has acquired the remaining 45% shareholding in the UK stainless steel products distributor, RGB Stainless Ltd., to become sole owner of the company.
RGB is a supplier of stainless steel products to the petrochemical, oil, energy and process industries. It will remain as an independent distributor of tube, pipe, fittings, flanges, sheet, plate and bar, obtaining products both from Sandvik Steel and other producers.
The new chairman of RGS is Per Whilhelmsson, general manager of the Complementary Products Div. at AB Sandvik Steel in Sweden. He takes over the role on the retirement of present chairman Ludvig Akerhielm.
Peter Rose, formerly RGB's sales director, has been named managing director.
Copyright 1997 Oil & Gas Journal. All Rights Reserved.
