Services/Suppliers

Stilley

Stilley is a 32-year veteran of the oil field services industry. From October 2004 through June 2008, he served as president and CEO of Hercules Offshore Inc. Prior to that, he was president and CEO of Seitel Inc. and held management positions with Weatherford International and Halliburton Co. Stilley is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and a past chairman of the Petroleum Equipment Suppliers Association’s Gulf Coast and Far East region chapters. He holds a BS in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and currently serves as nonexecutive chairman and a director of ThruBit LLC.

Manz was most recently a director of research for the investment bank Simmons & Company International until August 2008. From January 2005 to September 2007, he was with Hercules Offshore, where he last served as senior vice-president of corporate development and planning and previously was CFO. From May 1995 to January 2005, Manz was with Noble Corp., where he served in a variety of management roles. He holds a BBA in finance from the University of Texas at Austin.

Cestero currently serves as deputy general counsel, business affairs, and assistant secretary for Pride International and has been with the company since April 2002. He has been responsible for legal oversight of the operational, commercial, and general legal affairs of Pride’s worldwide operating divisions, as well as legal oversight of Pride’s strategic and business development transactions. Prior to joining Pride, he was with Bracewell & Giuliani LLP and Vinson & Elkins LLP. Cestero earned his JD from Stanford Law School and has a BA and MBA from Rice University.

German

German currently serves as director, human resources, Western Hemisphere, for Pride International and has been with the company since March 2006. He has been responsible for organizational effectiveness, employee and industrial relations, compensation and benefits, and performance and change management. German has more than 15 years of international human resources experience. Previously he was with BHP Billiton, where he last served as vice-president, human resources, Americas. German has a BBA in finance from the University of Houston.

Pride International is one of the world’s largest offshore drilling contractors.

R.W. Beck,

Seattle, has hired Alan Bedell and Jake Richardson as consultants in the firm’s Denver and Dallas offices, respectively. Both will work within the firm’s Barnes & Click division, which delivers business and technical consulting services to the hydrocarbon processing industries.

Bedell has 13 years of experience in the refining industry, including posts at Koch, Valero, Purvin & Gertz, and Saudi Aramco. He holds an MBA with an emphasis in global management and a BS in chemical engineering.

Richardson has experience in the design and construction of oil refining and natural gas liquids facilities and previously worked for Commonwealth Engineering & Construction. He has a BS in chemical engineering and is studying for his MBA.

R.W. Beck is a business and technical consultancy to the financial, energy, water/wastewater, and solid waste industries.

Honeywell International,

Morris Township, NJ, has been selected to help protect Woodside Ltd.’s Pluto onshore liquefied natural gas plant with a sophisticated industrial security system. Built on the Honeywell Enterprise Buildings Integrator (EBI) security management platform, the system for the Pluto LNG Project will provide convenient monitoring and single-window control of all access control, intrusion detection, and video surveillance subsystems. Woodside will use EBI to control video surveillance technology, including thermal imaging night-vision cameras. All video information will be fed to the Honeywell Digital Video Manager, a digital closed-circuit television system that facilitates instant retrieval of relevant video history, as well as video analytics, archiving, and export. The Pluto industrial security system will also include access controllers and card readers, perimeter fence intrusion detection, and biometric readers so that only authorized personnel will have access to specific areas of the plant. Woodside previously contracted Honeywell to design, engineer, test, and stage the system, which is scheduled for completion in December 2008. When commissioned, the Pluto facility is expected to produce 4.3 million tons/year of LNG.

Honeywell International is a diversified technology and manufacturing company, serving customers worldwide with control technologies for buildings, homes, and industry; aerospace products and services; automotive products; turbochargers; and specialty materials.

InterMoor Inc.,

Houston, has launched its subsea services division facility in Lafayette, La. The facility specializes in subsea heave compensation, abrasive water jet cutting services, and riserless intervention technology

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.

Dover Corp.,

Newman

New York, has named Dan Newman president of its combined companies Norris and Alberta Oil Tool. He will lead the process of further integrating Norris and Alberta Oil Tool activities and strategies and expanding the combined companies’ international presence. He will be based in Tulsa, home to Norris. With over 28 years of experience in the oil and gas industry, Newman most recently held the position of senior vice-president of supply chain and manufacturing with Exterran Holdings. He was deeply involved in the integration of Hanover and Universal during the Exterran merger process. Newman began his career with Halliburton in various roles, including research and engineering, manufacturing, quality, field operations, and business development.

Norris is a world leader in sucker rod production. Alberta Oil Tool, Calgary, is a leader in manufacturing specialty drive rods for progressive cavity pump application products.

Dover is a global producer of innovative equipment, specialty systems, and value-added services for the industrial products, fluid management, engineered systems, and electronic technology markets.

KBC Advanced Technologies Inc.,

London and Houston, has announced a contract award by National Cooperative Refinery Association (NCRA), McPherson, Kan., to redesign and enhance the Linear Program (LP) model of NCRA’s 85,000 b/d McPherson refinery. KBC will use best practice industry standards to improve the data, structure, accuracy, and methodologies of an enhanced LP to allow development of improved refinery operating plans for the site. The KBC SIM Suite of kinetic reactor models running in a Petro-SIM flowsheet will be used to create accurate representations of the refinery’s units as part of the project. The Petro-SIM LPU (LP Utility) will be configured for each crude distillation unit and processing reactor unit to generate accurate, consistent operating yield and property data for direct entry into the NCRA LP model. NCRA will also execute a multiyear license with KBC for the same simulation software tools, which are expected to make continuing optimization and improvement of the facility possible in the future. Included in the licensing is Petro-SIM, the KBC proprietary flowsheeting tool, plus the FCC-SIM (fluid catalytic cracking), HCR-SIM (hydrocracking), DC-SIM (delayed coking), and D HTR-SIM (distillate hydrotreating) unit models.

NCRA provides three farm supply cooperatives (CHS, GROWMARK, and MFA Oil) with fuel through its McPherson refinery. NCRA also owns Jayhawk Pipeline, minority interests in two other pipeline companies, and an underground oil storage facility.

KBC, a leading independent consulting, process engineering, and software group, delivers improved operating performance to the oil refining, petrochemical, and other process industries worldwide.

IDM Group,

Houston, has named Michael Stansberry COO. He will have overall operational and financial responsibility for all IDM operations and subsidiaries, including Southwest Oilfield Products. Stansberry has held senior management positions at drilling capital equipment and rig manufacturing oil field service companies, including vice-president of Skytop Brewster, president and CEO of Enterra Oilfield Rental, president and COO of Continental Emsco, and founder, president, and CEO of T3 Energy Services. Most recently, he was CEO at Energy Services International.

IDM manufactures drilling rigs, integrated drilling systems, and comprehensive fluid-end pump parts from its two Houston facilities.

ABS,

Houston, has named Sudheer Chand director of offshore technology. He will join a team of offshore engineers and researchers within the organization’s corporate technology department in Houston. Chand will address rules and requirements for drilling and production in harsh environments; criteria for the conversion of floating, production storage, and offloading (FPSO) units from ship-shaped trading tankers and criteria for newbuild FPSOs; and technology challenges associated with deeper-water drilling units, such as position keeping and the drilling equipment itself. The offshore technology group is also addressing issues associated with the monetization of stranded gas and commercialization of marginal fields. Chand had previously worked for ABS and most recently worked for a leading offshore operator involved with the design and construction of FPSOs and drilling rigs. He will also be responsible for oversight of the ABS Singapore Offshore Technology Center (SOTC), a satellite branch of ABS’s corporate technology department. SOTC takes a collaborative approach toward addressing offshore technology issues by working with the Singaporean government, universities, and industry.

Founded in 1862, ABS is a leading international classification society devoted to promoting the security of life, property, and the marine environment through the development and verification of standards for the design, construction, and operational maintenance of marine-related facilities.

Seismic Micro-Technology,

Houston, has announced that it will donate $250,000 to the Society of Exploration Geophysicists’ SEG Foundation to help launch its campaign “Advancing Geophysics Today, Inspiring Geoscientists for Tomorrow.” The campaign involves developing a comprehensive, internet-based offering and geophysical knowledge and education. The multiyear program will provide global access to all current applied geophysical knowledge, including publications, conference presentations, distinguished lectures, continuing education courses, research activities, vendor expertise, career information, university programs, and peer consultation. The initial release, completed in early 2008, provides the hardware and software infrastructure to deliver the new capabilities and content.

SEG is a not-for-profit organization that promotes the science of geophysics and the education of applied geophysicists.

SMT is a market leader for PC-based geoscientific interpretation designed to help organizations find oil and gas faster.