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John Tintera, former executive director of the Texas Railroad Commission, has joined the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers regulatory compliance team in Austin, Texas, as an environmental and technical consultant.

UniversalPegasus International has named Philip Luna CEO. Interim CEO Bob Deason will remain as executive chairman of the board.

The board of RigNet Inc. has elected James H. Browning as nonexecutive chairman.

Geokinetics has appointed David J. Crowley to the position of president and COO.

Earl Sebring has assumed the role of interim president at Cross Border Resources Inc.

Recovery Energy Inc. has elected D. Kirk Edwards to the company's board.

Warren Resources Inc. founder Norman F. Swanton has stepped down as board chairman, CEO, and a member of the board.

Armada Oil Inc. has appointed Eric Wold, CFA; Kenneth T. Hern; and Will E.D. Matthews to its board. Additionally, Rhonda B. Rosen has been appointed CFO.

Peter N. O'Conor has joined SIGMAas senior director, business development; Francois Lafferriere as director, business development; and Sean Spicer as chief software architect and lead developer, SIGMAIntegrated Reservoir Solutions.

Knight Oil Tools has promoted Chris Rosson to global business manager and Greg Zaunbrecher to assistant global business manager.

InterAct Activity Management Ltd., an Acteon company, has enhanced its abandonment engineering skills base with the addition of Dave Barclay, Allen Scoging, and Juliann Canty.

Kirk Kinnear has been appointed vice president, oil marketing logistics, at Continental Resources Inc. Jeff Hume, president and COO, will assume the role of vice chairman, strategic growth initiatives, and Rick Bott will succeed Hume as president and COO.

Kumar Laxshimalla has been named process engineering manager at IMV Projects, a Wood Group company.

Environmental Drilling Solutions LLC has named Jason Knowles area operations manager, Wyoming.

Daniel Trad, research advisor at the CGGVeritas Calgary processing and imaging center, has been distinguished with the inaugural 2011 CSEG Technical Achievement Award Citation for his work on 5-D interpolation.

Expansions

Castrol Offshore has begun offering regionally managed branded products, expertise, and specialized resources through distributor Rahimafrooz, headquartered in Dhaka, to support the power and oil and gas E&P industries.

ffA has expanded its operation into Brazil and has opened an office facility in Rio de Janeiro.

Aker Solutions plans to build a new engineering hub in London, which the company expects will create 1,300 new jobs by 2015.

TAM International Inc. has established a new Canadian regional headquarters that houses a manufacturing, service, and training facility in Calgary, Alberta.

Ocean Installer has opened a UK office in Aberdeen, Scotland, offering full subsea services.

Cudd Energy Services has relocated its corporate headquarters to The Woodlands, Texas.

National Oilwell Varco has completed the purchase of Canada-based Enerflow Industries Inc. to expand the company's well intervention and stimulation equipment offerings with Enerflow locations in Calgary, Alberta; Tulsa, Okla.; and Houston, Texas.

R360 Environmental Solutions Inc. has acquired privately owned Prairie Disposal Inc. (PDI), marking the company's entry into North Dakota's Williston basin. The PDI facility is equipped with an E&P waste disposal facility capable of accepting solid waste and a high-tech fluids processing plant to process E&P liquids such as spent drilling fluids and flowback.

Fiberspar Corp. has broken ground on a new sales and manufacturing center in Johnstown, Colo., to serve the Bakken, Niobrara, and other oil and gas markets in the Rockies region.

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