Centa Named President of PMI
of The Great Lakes Brewing Co. in Cleveland, Ohio.“Working at PMI has been truly rewarding and I will miss the daily interactions with the team,” said Schauer. Schauer started at PMI with a focus on turning around an underperforming company. As president, he led the company through the oil boom and bust cycles, established an overseas office, all while growing the business during the Covid crisis. “I look forward to spending more time with my family, traveling with my wife, woodworking, volunteering at community organizations, and writing,” comments Mr. Schauer. Centa
Ushering in the Age of the Autonomous Workboat
, or dangerous work boat tasks more efficiently and more safely than a manned vessel,” summarized Johnson. Version 1 (V1) Sea Machine will be a 20 ft. aluminum offshore unmanned work boat that will be ready to perform collaborative operations such as dual towing with a manned boat as found in oil boom skimming or fish seining, marine mammal escort monitoring or supervised domain grid-line operations for bathymetric surveying. Sea Machine V1 is a small work boat with 500 gallon (or LNG equivalent) of diesel tankage. It will feature a diesel hybrid system to provide a duration of
SGS Fishing for Marine Acquisition as Growth Slows
said should enable margins to improve later this year. The firm was also expanding market share with new testing laboratories at existing mine sites, which were not reliant on new exploration expenditure, he said. SGS is investing 50 million francs to expand into opportunities from the U.S. shale oil boom, and has about 100-150 people working in the Bakken field and in West Texas. "We're putting a lot more in there," Kirk said. But the switch from coal to gas was eroding SGS's U.S. coal business and causing a worldwide slowdown in coal exploration. Another potential boon could
February 2024
