PEOPLE

The Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) will recognize distinguished achievement recipient Ken Arnold for his leadership and contributions to the E&P industry during an awards dinner May 5, 2013. OTC will also present the Heritage Award to James Brill and Dendy Sloan for their leadership and pioneering spirit.

The Geophysical Society of Houston and Society of Exploration Geophysicists honored Peter Duncan, Ph.D., for a lifetime of achievement in geophysics during the 2013 Spring Symposium. Duncan, founder of MicroSeismic Inc., currently serves as the company’s CEO.

The board of directors at Endeavour International Corp. has named Catherine L. Stubbs senior vice president and CFO.

The International Association of Drilling Contractors honored Mike Hoyle of GL Noble Denton for helping form ISO standards for the site-specific assessment of mobile offshore units.

Kim Weninger has joined Atkins as operations director of the company’s US oil and gas division.

Ocean Installer appointed Ole Sanne as CCO and Jim Datland as CFO.

Glacier Energy Services selected Mark Derry to lead its new offshore division and George Leggate to head up the company’s Wellclad business.

Shunichi Miyanaga will take the reins as president of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.

PA Resources AB appointed Tomas Hedstrom CFO.

Staco Energy Products Co. has selected Jeff Hoffman as president.

Robert Buttermore has assumed responsibilities as regional director for Southeast Asia at Rockwell Automation.

MicroSeismic Inc. promoted Gary North to vice president of worldwide sales.

Tim Hladik will lead product development as senior vice president at INOVA Geophysical.

Seatronics Ltd., an Acteon company, named Adil Ali international product sales manager. The company also announced that Jeff Holtom will serve as regional manager in the Middle East.

UTEC Survey Australia Pty. Ltd. named Simon Hird general manager.

Stork Technical Services appointed Steven Law as HSSEQ director for the UK and Africa.

Greene’s Energy Group appointed Gene Garber chief integration officer. Garber will continue to serve as senior vice president as well. The company also tapped Richard Ramos as regional operations manager and Jaret Garber as financial manager of testing and services.

Norman Porter was promoted to director, Eastern Hemisphere, at HB Rentals. TAM International appointed Mike Machowski as COO of the company’s international operations and Francisco Suarez as vice president of the Western Hemisphere.

Martin Vahl has taken the reins as CEO of Unitech.

ION promoted Mike Mellen to vice president of the company’s GX technology business unit and Paul Farmer to vice president of ION Innovation. ION Geophysical also named Chris Usher as executive vice president and COO of its geoscience division.

Alistair Porter will serve as operations director for London at Xodus Group. In addition, James Knipe will be subsea team lead and Chris Smith will lead the production assurance offering at the company’s Perth, Australia, office.

CGG selected Sophie Zurquiyah as senior executive vice president of the geology, geophysics, and reservoir division.

Petroceltic International Plc tapped Geoff Stevenson as project director of the Ain Tsila development.

UniversalPegasus International selected Tom Davison as senior vice president of onshore operations and Martin Morrison as senior vice president of offshore operations. In addition, Max Hengst has been named vice president of commercial and marketing.

Richard Stoneburner was elected to Newfield Exploration Co.’s board of directors.

COMPANIES

The Offshore Technology Conference will honor Total E&P with a corporate achievement award for the company’s Pazflor deep offshore development in Angola during an awards dinner May 5, 2013.

Global Tubing LLC expanded to Red Deer, Alberta, Canada, where it opened a new coiled tubing service and inventory center.

Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc.’s oil-field technology group opened a new transload facility. The new location will provide resin-coated proppants to oil and gas service companies and operators.

DownUnder GeoSolutions has expanded to the UK, opening an office in London. The company will provide global E&P services from its new location.

The Rapid Response Institute LLC expanded its presence to Guadalajara, Mexico, with the opening of a new facility.

Honeywell opened a regional automation college in Hanoi, Vietnam, in partnership with Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group and PetroVietnam University. Engineers can receive technical skills training at the new facility.

Merrick established a Canadian branch, Merrick International Canada Ltd., based in Calgary.

High Pressure Equipment Co. will relocate to a new, larger facility in the Erie, Pa., area.