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Charles Durr joins Wood Group Mustang as vice president – LNG

Friday, Mar 01, 2013

HOUSTON, Feb. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Charles Durr, P.E., has joined Wood Group Mustang as vice president – LNG. In this capacity, he will lead the company’s LNG business and strategy for providing technology-neutral development options and solutions and build upon its existing resume of LNG experience and expertise in liquefaction, regasification and PMC services.

Durr joins Wood Group Mustang from KBR, where he served more than 40 years in a variety of domestic and international engineering, senior management and consulting positions, including vice president, LNG, GTL and Gas Processing Technology. He has worked on numerous major LNG projects around the world in locations such as Algeria, Nigeria, Malaysia, Australia, Indonesia, Oman, Qatar, Egypt, Canada, Peru and Yemen. Many of these included multiple phases.

During his career, he has worked in all project phases, from bidding through studies, pre-FEED, FEED, EPC execution, startup and performance testing and with all major LNG process technologies. In addition he has worked on LNG terminals in 12 countries and numerous FLNG studies and proposals.

Durr has authored or co-authored more than 80 industry technical papers and holds eight patents in gas processing and LNG technologies. He is a regular participant in Gas Processors Association, Gas Technology Institute and the International Gas Union.

He is on the program committee for the LNG series of conferences with the most recent one being LNG 17 where he will co-chair a workshop on innovation. He also is on the governing board of Gastech where he has chaired sessions and presented many papers.

Durr holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in chemical engineering from Manhattan College, New York, and is a registered professional engineer in the State of Texas.

Wood Group Mustang is a global project management, engineering, procurement, and construction operations company serving the upstream oil and gas, refining and chemicals, pipeline, automation and control, and industrial markets. Wood Group Mustang has offices in North America, South America, Europe, Middle East, Asia & Africa. For more information, visit http://www.mustangeng.com.

Wood Group is an international energy services company with $6bn sales, employing more than 42,000 people worldwide and operating in 50 countries. The Group has three businesses – Engineering, Wood Group PSN and Wood Group GTS – providing a range of engineering, production support, maintenance management and industrial gas turbine overhaul and repair services to the oil & gas, and power generation industries worldwide.

SOURCE Wood Group Mustang

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Durr, Charles [MC????]

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Dear John,

I believe that Charles is a member of the Class of 1968.

Mike

McEneney, Mike (MC1953)

[JR: Thanks, Mike. Much appreciated.]

Durr, Charles [MC1968]

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http://www2.electronicproducts.com/Richard_Comerford_Editor_and_Engineer-article-Qabd_Richard_Comerford_Nov2012-html.aspx

This article was posted on 09/27/2012.
Richard Comerford: Editor and Engineer
Tinkerer Extraordinaire

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Bryan DeLuca: How did you become interested in Engineering?

Richard Comerford: Some say engineers are born, not made. I don’t know if that’s true or not, but from my earliest days I was doing things you could call “precursory engineering”.

When I was just 4 or 5, I loved to play in the rain, building dams, redirecting the course of rivulets, and constructing small boats to float on them. Summers at the beach meant building castles with elaborate water moats, anachronistically using dump trucks and steam shovels to construct the ramparts and towers. Once school started in the fall, I would build dioramas and model airplanes from scratch, and make crystal radios using a tubular Quaker Oatmeal cereal box to wrap the necessary wire coils. Afternoons and evening, I could watch shows like Ask Mr. Wizard and The Bell Laboratory Science Series. (I believe the host of the Bell show, Dr. Frank Baxter, was a model for The Muppet Show character Dr. Bunsen Honeydew, although many think it was Lew Grade of ITV, who backed the show. But I digress.)

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My first encounter with serious technology was in the mid-to-late 50s, when I was in my “tweens” and my Dad, who worked as a manager for Consolidated Edison of New York, was involved with one of the first commercial installations of IBM Mainframes. (Katherine Hepburn paid the facility a visit to see what a computer room was like when she was getting ready to make the movie Desk Set with Spencer Tracy.) On weekends when he went to work, I’d tag along with him and got to play with the automated Hollerith card counters that the computers were replacing. One of the technicians, John Orth, took me under his wing and showed me an oscilloscope for the first time. It was a DuMont scope, and I got to make Lissajous patterns on it, like they used in the opening of Outer Limits.

But in High School I became more interested in writing. Our house was loaded with books, and my father, mother, three brothers and I were constantly reading. A teacher I had in sophomore year really got me hooked on the world of English literature, from Beowulf and Chaucer, to Shakespeare, to Emily Dickenson and Robert Frost. By the time senior year came, I was faced with the choice of going to Fordham University for Liberal Arts or Manhattan College for Engineering. Ultimately, Manhattan College won out, but my career let me to combine both interests.

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Bryan DeLuca: What is something you think is important that not many people know about you?

Richard Comerford: I haven’t only written about technology during my career. When I was doing freelance work for Biography magazine, I interviewed Jeremy Brett, the British actor who played Sherlock Holmes in the original BBC series. It was one of the last interviews he did, and I was amazed at how very down-to-earth he was. He was the consummate professional; he had studied the character of Holmes in depth, basing his portrayal strictly based on Conan Doyle’s work as it appeared in The Strand. For example, he smoked several different types of pipes, including the favorite cherrywood, not just the overly familiar Meerschaum, and he was more likely to appear in a top hat and tails, reserving the deer stalker and Inverness cape to those infrequent trips deep into the countryside.

The role seemed to make him an “overnight success”, which was sort of a surprise to him, considering that he‘d performed in many Shakespearean roles with the Old Vic, and appeared in many movies, including War and Peace and My Fair Lady, both with Audrey Hepburn.

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Comerford, Richard [MC????]

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Dear John,

I believe that Richard is a member of the Class of 1968.

Mike

McEneney, Mike (MC1953)

[JR: Thanks, Mike. Much appreciated.]

Comerford, Richard [MC1968]

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49175673#.UGTiqhiGk5s

Kivalliq Strengthens Team with Appointment of Jim Malone to Board of Directors
updated 9/26/2012 6:00:00 AM ET

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VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA — Kivalliq Energy Corporation (“Kivalliq”) (TSX VENTURE:KIV) today announced that Jim Malone has joined Kivalliq’s board of directors. Mr. Malone’s knowledge of the nuclear fuel markets, and relationships with global nuclear companies and industry participants, will provide critical expertise and insight as Kivalliq advances the Angilak Property in Nunavut Territory, Canada.

“We are proud to welcome an individual with Mr. Malone’s industry experience and his track record of corporate leadership. In addition, the integral part Mr. Malone played in the growth of Hathor Exploration Ltd., culminating in Hathor’s recent transaction with Rio Tinto, will be of great benefit to our company as Kivalliq grows,” stated Jim Paterson, CEO. “As we demonstrate the increasing value of our Angilak Property, Kivalliq continues to attract and retain extremely high-caliber team members.”

New Board Addition

Jim Malone served as co-editor of the World Nuclear Association’s (“WNA”) “The Global Nuclear Fuel Market Report Supply and Demand 2007 – 2030″. He is currently Chairman of the WNA’s Fuel Technology Working Group and is working on a high power density metallic fuel technology development with Lightbridge Corporation, and a high thermal conductivity oxide fuel with IBC Advanced Alloys Corp. He was Chairman of the Board of Hathor Exploration Ltd., which, in January 2012, became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Rio Tinto as part of a CAD$650 million acquisition. Jim is widely recognized as a nuclear industry and nuclear fuel expert, with more than 40 years of experience in the downstream business, most recently as vice-president, nuclear fuels, Exelon Generation Co. LLC, the largest generator of nuclear power in North America.

In 1968, Jim began his career in nuclear power as an engineer in the utility reactor core analysis section of the nuclear engineering department of United Nuclear Corporation (UNC) after receiving a B.S. in chemical engineering (nuclear) at Manhattan College, Bronx, New York in 1968. In 1972, Jim completed an MBA at Iona College, New Rochelle, New York where he was awarded the Graduate School of Business Award for Academic Excellence. He is a member of the American Nuclear Society and a Past Chairman of the ANS Fuel Cycle Waste Management Division.

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Malone, Jim [MC????]

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