TPT January 2012

I ndustry N ews

Thermatool appoints new manager of materials engineering

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 Email: mdidonato@ttool.com Website: www.thermatool.com

Dr Frame

Technip awarded major contract for accelerated production system

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,

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

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 Website: www.technip.com

Changes to Simona AG executive board to take place in 2012

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

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

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 Website: www.simona.de

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