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Vol. 228 No. 5 |
Deepwater Specialists, Inc., part of John Wood Group PLC, promoted Trey Lambert to executive VP. He has been with DSI over 5 years, and has been in the oil and gas industry for more than 12 years. His expertise includes electrical and control systems engineering, deepwater oil and gas facility design, construction, commissioning and facility startups.
Megan Hebert was named account associate at Foster Marketing Communications. A graduate of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Hebert worked as an admissions counselor for ULL’s Department of Enrollment Services, where she recruited students from the New Orleans area.
Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business announced that W. Bruce Bullock was named director of the Maguire Energy Institute. Prior to joining the Cox School, Bullock served as director of Corporate Communications for FMC Technologies, Inc.
IADC and ReedHycalog have named Mark Burns as 2007 Contractor of the Year. Burns has served in numerous leadership roles with IADC for more than 23 years. In 2003�04, he served as chairman for the organization’s North Sea chapter, focusing on the UK’s implementation of the EU Working Time Directive.
Exxon Mobil Corp. elected M. W. (Mark) Albers as senior VP. Currently president of ExxonMobil Development Co., he will be a member of the corporation’s Management Committee and assume certain responsibilities for the upstream businesses. Albers joined the company in 1979.
GEODynamics, Inc., named Matt Bell as VP of technology and Ted Price as global sales director. Bell was previously senior investment manager for Shell Technology Ventures, Inc., where he helped manage a $300 million investment portfolio of E&P companies. Prior to joining GEODynamics, Price worked for Halliburton Energy Services for 21 years in a number of sales and managerial roles.
Immediate Response Spill Technologies (IRST) has brought on Dr. Tom Hanley as an engineering consultant. A chemical engineering professor at Auburn University, he has over 40 years of chemical engineering experience.
Expro International Group PLC appointed Kay Drummond as its new corporate communications manager. She joins Expro from BAA Aberdeen Airport, where she was media and communications manager. Drummond has worked 17 years in the UK newspaper industry, including 12 years in journalism management.
Berry Petroleum Co. announced that Shawn Canaday was appointed controller, and Steven B. Wilson was named treasurer of the company. Wilson became controller of Berry upon the retirement of Don Dale in December 2006, and Canaday has been treasurer since December 2004. The two are switching roles to broaden their experience in the Bakersfield, California-based company.
John Tully, who spent more than a quarter century as a member of ExxonMobil’s law department, joined Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.’s New York office as a litigator. Tully began his legal work at Exxon as staff counsel in 1977 and rose to become ExxonMobil’s assistant general counsel responsible for worldwide litigation.
Ivanhoe Energy Inc. has appointed Dr. Robert Graham as chief technology officer for its HTL heavy-oil-upgrading technology. Graham is the co-inventor of the HTL technology and has been a member of the company’s board of directors since April 2005. He developed the original Rapid Thermal Process underlying the HTL technology in the early 1980s, applying it initially to the biomass industry, where he built a successful commercial business. Graham is stepping down as president and CEO of Ensyn Corp., the company he established and has led for over 20 years, in order to assume this new role with Ivanhoe Energy. His appointment will be for one year.
Doug Keller was promoted to VP of marketing and business development for Knight Oil Tools. Keller, who has over 35 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, has been regional manager, Gulf Coast, for the last three years.
Offshore Marine Services appointed John Reid as UK director of marine operations, a newly created position. Reid joins the company from Prosafe Offshore, where he was director of operations. In his new role, he assumes overall responsibility for the development and management of the OMS Group’s European Marine business.
Obituary
Lloyd Neal Unsell died April 7, 2007 in Clinton, Maryland. He was a veteran of World War II, serving in England and in Manila, Philippines. He worked as a reporter for the Seminole Producer and the Tulsa World newspapers following the war until 1948, when he joined the Independent Petroleum Association of America (IPAA). He worked in the Tulsa office until 1964, when he was transferred to the Washington, DC office. Later, he served as the President/CEO of IPAA until his retirement in May of 1987. Unsell was widely recognized as one of the most influential oil industry lobbyists in Washington. He was one of the major fundraisers for the construction of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
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