John Rae and Richard Parley

Air and steam equipment rental specialist, Airpac Bukom Oilfield Services, a Vp plc business, is pleased to announce a number of key technical appointments at the start of 2012.

John Rae has been appointed as technical support manager and will be responsible for managing the operations of our full range of air and steam rental equipment on contract in over 30 countries. In addition John provides operational support to our high calibre pool of offshore personnel in Aberdeen, Africa, Latin America and Middle East regions. John has worked for Airpac Bukom as a senior offshore operator for the last six years, supporting hundreds of well test and high-pressure pipeline and gas transfer contracts all over the world.

Richard Parley has been promoted to workshop manager for the Aberdeen service facility. Richard will concentrate on managing the company’s maintenance and workshop resources within the Aberdeen base to ensure consistently high service quality is delivered to our North Sea and European client base.

Kevin Donaldson rejoins Airpac Bukom as workshop supervisor at the Aberdeen base, supporting Richard’s role as well as overseeing the maintenance and servicing of our large modern fleet of air compressors, steam generators, heat exchangers, dual pot sand filters and air treatment ancillaries.

Jim Yeats, international operations manager, says: "We are delighted to announce these recent appointments to support Airpac Bukom’s quest to provide the very best air and steam equipment as well as offshore personnel to our global client base. Airpac Bukom believes in the development of existing talent through training and providing career advancement.

"John has a wealth of offshore experience and has an excellent reputation throughout our client base for his mechanical knowledge and professionalism. Richard and Kevin will run a very tight ship in the workshop ensuring their team deliver the highest quality maintenance and servicing programme."

Airpac Bukom Oilfield Services provides air and steam solutions to the well testing, fabric maintenance, pipeline dewatering and drying, product transfer, underbalanced drilling (UBD), cuttings movement and LNG pipework testing markets globally.