FirstWave/Newpark Shipbuilding, Houston, Tex., has named Frank R. Pierce corporate vice president and chief financial officer. Pierce has more than twenty years of experience, in which the last sixteen were managing financial reporting, mergers and acquisitions, and investor relations for GulfMark Offshore, Inc., a publicly held offshore vessel company.
Tom Godfrey has been named vice president, ship repair. Godfrey has more than twenty years of experience in ship repair and new construction management. He has held many senior-level positions in the industry and most recently was president & CEO, Colonna's Shipyard, Inc., Norfolk, Va.
FirstWave/Newpark Shipbuilding
provides repair, conversion, new construction, and related services for barges, boats, ships, offshore rigs, and other vessels in the offshore and inland marine industries.
Baker Petrolite Corp.,
Sugar Land, Tex., has named J.D. Dyess director of business development.
Dyess will be responsible for the development of global business opportunities in targeted petroleum markets served by Baker Petrolite. Those markets include oil and gas production, gas and fluids pipelines, refineries and petrochemical plants. Dyess will work closely with the management of Baker Petrolite operating groups to identify emerging business opportunities as well as integration of Baker Hughes Inc. into these markets.
Baker Petrolite is the specialty chemical division of Baker Hughes, Inc. which serves the worldwide petroleum and processing industries. Baker Petrolite is part of Baker Hughes' oilfield operations group, which includes Baker Oil Tools, Centrilift, Hughes Christensen, Baker Hughes Western Geophysical, Baker Atlas and Baker Hughes INTEQ.
Baker Petrolite also is a provider of specialty polymers to the imaging, adhesives, coatings, plastics processing and personal-care markets, and participates in other heavy industries such as chemical, steel, mining, utility, water treatment and agriculture.
Kvaerner Oilfield Products,
Houston, Tex., has named Wayne Curington vice president of the Systems Solutions Group. Responsible for identifying customer needs and developing cost-effective solutions to those needs, he has over thirty years executive experience in manufacturing, sales/marketing, and general management.
Doug Horton has been named vice president of sales and marketing. Responsible for sales of both subsea and surface pressure-control equipment, he has twenty five years of sales and marketing experience in oilfield equipment.
