Folks, facts orgs, et cetera

People on the move at OpenSpirit, Peloton, PGS Tigress, GX Technology, IHRDC, NetApp and CTC.

Dan Piette has been appointed CEO of OpenSpirit Corp.

Exprodat and Exploration Geosciences are to produce a GIS-based version of the Millennium Atlas, documenting the Petroleum Geology of the North Sea.

Dawood Khan is to manage Peloton’s new Aberdeen office.

Core Laboratories revealed in its 2002 annual report that it paid $8 million cash to acquire Advanced Data Solutions last year.

Andrei Bezhentev is to manage PGS Tigress’ new Tyumen office.

Mosaic Information Solutions is building a database of technical sections of license applications from the UK’s onshore licensing rounds for the DTI.

Mike Goodwin has been named manager of GX Technology’s new geophysical service centre in Aberdeen.

Grant Prideco’s telemetry-enabled IntelliPipe drillstring achieved 2 Mbps data transmission rates in a field test.

Jeannie Perdue has been appointed e-learning champion with IHRDC.

Network Appliance has acquired the patent portfolio of Auspex Systems from the liquidator for approx $9 million.

ChevronTexaco has named John Bethancourt Executive VP Technology.

President David Archer points out that POSC stands for the Petrotechnical Open Standards Consortium.

Convergence Data Services has joined PIDX.

Santos has joined the Pipeline Open Data Standards (PODS) organization.

Baker Hughes unit Baker Atlas and Compagnie Générale de Géophysique (CGG) have launched VSFusion, a joint venture for borehole seismic processing.