Didier Charreton has been appointed VP HR with Baker Hughes, replacing retiree Greg Nakanishi. Charreton hails from Coats Plc.
B2B e-business hub cc-Hubwoo is to raise 9.5 million Euros with a rights issue. Proceeds will be used to launch a professional services business targeting supply chain management and to ‘help suppliers to grow their business with the cc-Hubwoo’s large buyers.’
Cambridge Energy Research Associates has promoted David Hobbs to VP/MD Global Research. Hobbs for CERA. Before that, Hobbs was with Hardy Oil and Gas.
CiDRA has appointed Paul Khuri VP of its Oil and Gas business unit. Khuri was previously with Roxar.
Tony Hamer has joined Decision Strategies as MD Emerging Businesses. Hamer was previously with the Monitor Group.
Deloitte Petroleum Services has hired Magnes Grael to work in its Rio de Janeiro office.
Nanne Hemstra is to head-up de Groot-Bril’s new Indian branch office in Mumbai.
Emerson Process Management is to hire 15 R&D engineers in a ‘multi-million’ dollar renovation and expansion of its Fisher control valves R&D facility in Marshalltown, Iowa. Emerson also announced the appointment of Peter Zornio to the new post of chief strategic officer. Zornio moves from Honeywell.
John Gremp has been appointed Executive VP of FMC Technologies’ Energy Systems businesses. Gremp is seconded by senior VPs Robert Potter and Tore Halvorsen.
Mike McEvilly has joined Helix as VP Capital Projects.
Iron Mountain has promoted John Connors to President, Americas, and John Clancy to president of Iron Mountain Digital. Joseph DeSalvo has joined the company as Senior VP and Chief Security Officer.
Paul Haines has joined Knightsbridge (now a part of HP) as a Principal. Haines was previously with Kerr-McGee Oil & Gas.
Sean Mauk is business development manager of Knowledge Systems’ new office in Perth, Australia. Mauk was previously with Aker Kvaerner. Other hires include Sue Pritchett (from A2D Technologies), Steve Vest (from PGS), Joshua Evans (from Texas River Expeditions.)
Spatial data specialist Laser-Scan is changing its name to 1Spatial reflecting the fact that ‘Laser-Scan does not do Laser Scanning!’
Storage specialists LSI Logic and Agere Systems have merged in a $4 billion all paper deal.
Hilde Merete Aasheim is to supervise the integration of Hydro’s oil and gas activity with Statoil.
Thomas Shope has been named Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy at the US Department of Energy.
The Open Geospatial Consortium has just become a member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
Paulett Eberhart has been appointed CEO and president of Invensys Process Systems. Acting president Ken Brown re-assumes the role of General Manager of the Measurements & Instruments business unit. Eberhart was previously with EDS.
PGS has opened a satellite Data Processing Centre in Villahermosa, Mexico. The center is equipped with PGS’ CubeManager software and HoloSeis 3D visualization. A dedicated high-bandwidth link connects the satellite to PGS’ Compute MegaCenter in Houston.
Following the merger with CGG, Veritas president Thierry Pilenko has moved to the position of president of French oilfield service company Technip, replacing Daniel Valot.
PetroCanada and Quantum Resource Management have joined the OFS Portal e-business community.
Roxar and Sonar Ltd. have formed a joint venture in Lagos, Nigeria.
Schlumberger has promoted Simon Ayat to CFO, replacing retiree Jean-Marc Perraud.
Sense Intellifield has appointed Bill Chmela as V.P. Sales and Marketing for software products. Paul Lachin replaces Chmela as Regional Manager for the Americas region.
Serafim Ltd. has appointed Brian Arcedera as reservoir engineer. Arcedera was previously with Unocal Phillipines.
SpectrumData has appointed David Veale as general manager. The company has also just opened its first international data management facility in Jakarta, Indonesia. SpectrumData was recently awarded an unusual contract by NASA for the recovery and storage of data recorded by the Lunar Dust Detector Experiment conducted during the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 moon landings.
Weatherford International has appointed Lee Colley COO.
Shell/Halliburton joint venture WellDynamics has acquired Halliburton’s Reservoir Performance Monitoring business.has acquired Halliburton’s Reservoir Performance Monitoring business.
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