IRVING, Texas – Exxon Mobil Corporation announced its seventh oil discovery offshore Guyana, following drilling at the Pacora-1 exploration well.
ExxonMobil encountered approximately 65 feet (20 meters) of high-quality, oil-bearing sandstone reservoir. The well was safely drilled to 18,363 feet (5,597 meters) depth in 6,781 feet (2,067 meters) of water. Drilling commenced on Jan. 29, 2018.
BARNSTAPLE, England – Parker Hannifin Corporation has signed a new Enterprise Framework Agreement (EFA) with Shell for the provision of instrumentation valves, manifolds, process-to-instrument valves, fittings, tubing, protective enclosures and related products. As per the EFA spanning 4 years, Parker’s Instrumentation Group will supply a broad range of process instrumentation products to Shell and its affiliates worldwide.
GRAY, La. – Danos announced that David Decuir has been promoted to technical solutions manager, a position responsible for leadership of the company’s compliance training department.
FORT WAYNE, Ind. – Steven E. Westfall has been named president of Tuthill Transfer Systems, effective earlier this month.
HOBOKEN, N.J. - SIMS Pump Company has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract to build structural composite pumps for new ferries for Staten Island Ferry, which are being built by Eastern Shipbuilding Group located in Panama City, Florida.
CHICAGO – Global variable frequency drives (VFD) manufacturer, Invertek Drives, has announced it is strengthening its presence in North America with a new US headquarters near Chicago.
UK-based Invertek Drives has promoted its global sales manager, Wayne Morris, to vice president of Invertek Drives USA and recruited Pete Roberts as sales manager.
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Brennan Industries, Inc., an international supplier of hydraulic fittings and adapters, has hired Edward Waters as project manager.
In his new role at Brennan, Waters will be responsible for leading and implementing a variety of corporate projects. He will be working closely with both Brennan and newly acquired Versa to identify opportunities for more collaboration, along with supporting the entire integration process to ensure its success.
HOUSTON — Schlumberger announced the award by Noble Energy of an engineering and supply contract for a two-thousand-ton single-lift process module to be installed on the Leviathan Platform in the Eastern Mediterranean.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Motion Industries, Inc., a distributor of maintenance, repair, and operation replacement parts, announced that its parent company, Genuine Parts Company (GPC), named Motion Industries President & CEO Tim Breen as its 2017 GPC Manager of the Year. It is the single highest individual recognition in all of GPC.
MILWAUKEE, Wisc. - Helwig Carbon Products, Inc. announced the appointment of Harold Katz as sales representative for Southern California. Katz has 35 years of sales and sales management experience in the ball bearing, power transmission, linear bearing and motion control industries. He spent 34 years with Bearing Engineers, Inc./ Motion Solutions, Inc. in the roles of sales representative, assistant sales manager, sales manager, vice president and president.
