C&C Reservoirs has appointed John Anderson, Jose Guzman, Richard Footitt and Suvimol Maingarm to its geoscience team.
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Seitel has hired Randall Stilley as president and CEO, subject to approval of the bankruptcy court. Stilley is a past president of Weatherford International’s oilfield services division.
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Waterous & Co. has named Adrian Goodisman as MD of its Houston office. Goodisman was with Ziff Energy Group and Phillips Petroleum.
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The US Department of Energy has named Mark Maddox as acting Assistant Secretary of the Office of Fossil Energy. Maddox replaces Carl Michael Smith who resigned recently from the position.
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Houston-based start-up Explora Seismic Processing ‘ESP’ announces its management line-up as follows: Adrian Lillico, President, Rory McArthur, VP New Business Development and Efrain Melendez, VP Geophysical Operations.
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The Australian government has just created a portal - geoscience.gov.au - to state, territory and federal government geoscience agencies.
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Greg Jonassen is to manage Aveva Group Plc.’s new office in Calgary to market plant engineering lifecycle solutions to Canadian industry.
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Common Data Access (CDA) has just kicked-off a new ‘Value Study’ to be masterminded by Paras Consulting. CDA is also undertaking an exploration data disposal study for publication under the UKOOA banner.
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ConocoPhillips has given $500,000 to the Society of Petroleum Engineers’ Foundation. The SPE is enganged in a $5 million fundraising drive to ‘transform SPE’s Internet capabilities’.
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ExxonMobil vows to ‘stay conservative’ on drilling and is to cut $1 billion costs in 2004. From 1999 and 2003, Exxon Mobil’s work force declined 18% to 88,000 following the merger and increased productivity due to new technology.
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Baker Hughes Inc. has appointed Larry Brady to its board. Brady, is chairman and CEO of Unova Inc.
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Following its acquisition by Fugro last year, Robertson Research has changed its name to Fugro-Robertson.
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Guy Gueritz has been hired by Linux Networx to market cluster-based solutions to the oil and gas business in the EAME region. Gueritz was previously with SGI.
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