Business News for the week of 4 February 2013

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INOVA Geophysical appoints a new senior vice president of product development

04 February 2013—INOVA Geophysical has promoted Tim Hladik to senior vice president of product development. Hladik was promoted after Glenn Hauer, the previous senior vice president of product management, was promoted to president and CEO for INOVA Geophysical. 

Hladik is responsible for the development of all geophysical data acquisition technologies at INOVA. Prior to joining INOVA, he held various roles in the engineering organizations of Geo-X Systems, which later became ARAM Systems and then ION Geophysical. He also held positions as a field application engineer for a global electronics company, Arrow Electronics. Hladik earned a BS degree in electrical engineering from the University of Calgary. 

 

DownUnder GeoSolutions attracts leading geoscience team to new London office

06 February 2013—DownUnder GeoSolutions, originally from Perth, Australia, opens its seventh international office in London. The office will act as a European hub for the DownUnder GeoSolutions to offer exploration and production services to the global oil and gas industry. Heading up the European headquarters will be EAME geoscience manager, Julian Sherriff and Howard Davies, EAME business development manager.

Sherriff and Davies each have over 30 years experience in the industry. They both have strong technical backgrounds as processing geophysicists and have held many senior managerial roles at companies throughout the world, most recently at Fugro Seismic Imaging in the UK. They will lead a team of 10 geoscientists. The London team will offer the full suite of DownUnder GeoSolutions' services.

 

Sophie Zurquiyah joins CGG as SEVP of its new geology, geophysics, and reservoir division

06 February 2013—CGG appointed Sophie Zurquiyah as senior executive vice president of the geology, geophysics, and reservoir (GGR) division effective 5 February. She is based in Houston, USA.

Zurquiyah is a graduate of the Ecole Centrale de Paris and holds a MS in numerical analysis from the Pierre and Marie Curie University (Paris 6), as well as a MS in aerospace engineering from the University of Colorado. She started her career with Schlumberger in 1991 as a geophysics engineer and has held a variety of positions in engineering and manufacturing in France before moving to the United States to head a Schlumberger technology center, which engineers and manufactures oilfield equipment. Zurquiyah transferred to operations in 2003, becoming general manager for the Schlumberger South Latin America region, based in Rio de Janeiro.

After five years outside France, she took the position of human resources director for Oilfield Services at Schlumberger headquarters in Paris. She then became chief information officer for Schlumberger Limited between 2007 and 2009, when she was responsible for information systems and IT services globally.

In 2009 Zurquiyah was appointed president of Schlumberger data and consulting services, based in Houston. In this capacity, she headed a business supported by a large group of petro-technical experts that perform the interpretation of Schlumberger measurements as well as provide subsurface consulting services. In her last position, from mid-2012 she was VP of Sustaining Engineering, in charge of a global organization supporting all Schlumberger commercial products and technologies.