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Vol. 58 No. 12
December 2006
Rodney Eads, SPE, was named Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for Pride Intl. Before this appointment, he was Senior Vice President–Worldwide Operations for Diamond Offshore Drilling. Eads earned a BS degree in chemical engineering from the West Virginia Inst. of Technology and an MBA degree from Rice U.
William Faubel, SPE, was appointed Vice President–Enterprise Marketing for Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations. Before this appointment, he served as President of Baker Atlas. Faubel earned a BS degree in mechanical engineering from Southern Methodist U.
Richard
Fowler, SPE, was named Vice President and General Manager for Dominion
E&P. He joined Consolidated Natural Gas Co. (CNG) in 1996; CNG merged with
Dominion in 2000. Fowler earned a BS degree in mechanical engineering from
Tulane U.
Joseph Franz Jr., SPE, was named President and Chief Executive Officer for Unbridled Energy Corp. Before this appointment, he worked for Schlumberger.
Judd Hansen, SPE, was appointed Senior Vice President–Shelf and Onshore for Mariner Energy. The company also announced the appointment of Cory Loegering, SPE, as Senior Vice President–Deepwater and Richard Molohon, SPE, as Vice President–Reservoir Engineering.
Hossein Kazemi, SPE, was named Chesebro’ Distinguished Chair in
Petroleum Engineering at Colorado School of Mines. He began teaching as an
adjunct professor in 1980 and has served as codirector of the school’s Marathon
Center of Excellence in Reservoir Studies since 2003. Kazemi, an SPE
Distinguished Member, is a member of the U.S. Natl. Academy of Engineering.
Gary
Rich, SPE, was named President of Hughes Christensen. Before this
appointment, he served as Vice President–Marketing Drilling and Evaluation.
Rich earned a BS degree in accounting from Brigham Young U. and an MS degree in
science and technology commercialization from the U. of Texas at Austin.
Eve
Sprunt, 2006 SPE President, has been named University Partnership and
Recruitment Manager—Corporate HR, Regional Shared Services-North America for
Chevron Corp.
She will coordinate development and deployment of Chevron’s university recruiting efforts within the U.S. and with the newly created University Partnership Program. Sprunt will establish strategic relationships in the areas of recruiting, research, and public affairs with the 16 global universities currently in the program.
Prior to the appointment, she was Senior Technical Adviser for Chevron Technology Ventures.
Member Deaths
Shofner Smith, Greenwood Village, Colorado
F.M. Stevenson, Greenwood Village, Colorado
Gary Weimann, Calgary
