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THERMATOOL Corporation has welcomed
Lesley D Frame, PhD as its new manager
of materials engineering and development.
Dr Frame will be an essential part of
the continued growth of the Thermatool
business worldwide, and she will be working
to further improve the services provided to
Thermatool customers.
Dr Frame received her BSc from
Massachusetts Institute of Technology in
2004 in Materials Science and Engineering.
Remaining in the same field, she received her
MSc and PhD at the University of Arizona in
2007 and 2009, respectively. Upon graduating
with her PhD she worked with solar thermal
technology at University of Arizona, and Dr
Frame spent eight months in Cardiff, UK as
a Fulbright Scholar. Her research in the UK
focused on the non-destructive analysis of
residual stress relaxation in heat treated and
plastically deformed metals using neutron
diffraction and synchrotron x-ray diffraction.
Dr Frame is an expert in metallurgical
structure, properties, processes and
performance. Her past research has included
several international collaborations in a wide
range of fields relating to materials science
and engineering, including experimentation
with, as well as characterisation and analysis
of, phase change and heat treatment
phenomena in several alloy systems. As a
new member of the Thermatool Corp team
Dr Frame will be managing HF welding
research, developing new processes using
variable frequency welding methods, and
providing technical support.
Thermatool Corp – USA
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Thermatool appoints new manager of
materials engineering
TECHNIP has been awarded a major
procurement, installation and operation
support contract by Petroleos de Venezuela
SA (PDVSA) covering subsea, onshore
and offshore facilities, for an accelerated
production system on the Mariscal Sucre
Dragon development, offshore Venezuela.
The Mariscal Sucre Dragon field is located
around 25 miles North of Paria peninsula,
EFFECTIVE from 1 January 2012, Fredy
Hiltmann has been appointed a new member
of the executive board of Simona AG.
Mr Hiltmann will oversee the area of
corporate finance (chief financial officer).
Having completed a vocational training
programme in the field of business, Mr
Hiltmann studied economics and business
administration (HWV). He held senior
state of Sucre, Venezuela at a water depth of
100 to 130m (328-427ft).
The project scope covers supply and
installation of subsea flowlines; supply and
installation of gas processing equipment
onshore; and operational support for the
subsea, offshore and onshore facilities.
Thierry Pilenko, chairman and CEO of
Technip, commented: “This project builds
positions at a number of global corporations,
including SiemensAG and Georg Fischer AG.
Most recently, Mr Hiltmann was employed as
chief financial officer by the Metalor Group.
Mr Hiltmann is a Swiss national.
By mutual consent with the board, chief
sales officer Detlef Becker stepped down from
his active role as a member of the executive
board at the end of September 2011. He
on the strong relationship with PDVSA for
ongoing work. It brings together for our client
the combined expertise, know-how and skills
of all our business segments, demonstrating
the strength of our global footprint and of our
integrated model.”
Technip – France
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has been an executive board member of
Simona AG since 1 April 2008. His role in
the company will be assumed by Wolfgang
Moyses, chief executive officer of Simona
AG. The chairman of the board Hans-Werner
Marx thanked Mr Becker for his contribution.
Simona – Germany
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Technip awarded major contract for
accelerated production system
Changes to Simona AG executive board
to take place in 2012
Dr Frame