Key Energy Services Inc., Houston, has appointed Blake Hutchinson vice-president, corporate development. He will lead efforts to identify and evaluate international business development opportunities in the Eastern Hemisphere and serve as Key's investor relations executive. Hutchin- son has extensive financial investment experience in the oil and gas industry, having worked at Daniel Breen & Co., Howard Weil Inc., and most recently at Treaty Oak Capital Management in Austin. He has a BA in economics and managerial studies.

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Key Energy Services is the world's largest rig-based well services company. The company provides on field services including well servicing, pressure pumping, fishing and rental tools, and electric wireline, with operations in all major onshore on and gas producing regions of the continental US and in Argentina and Mexico.

Spectraseis,

Zurich, has entered into a long-term, strategic partnership with Saudi Makamin Co. Spectraseis and Makamin are forming a joint new venture based in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, to market and deliver low- frequency geophysical solutions in the Middle East. Makamin has also become an owner of Spectraseis, alongside the company's major shareholders Warburg Pincus and StatoilHydro Ventures.

Established in 2003, Spectraseis is the principal technology and service provider in the field of low- frequency passive seismic geophysical surveys and data analysis.

Established in 2008, Makamin is a Saudi oil field services group that is a building a portfolio of new technology and service offerings for operators in the Persian Gulf region, including exploration technology, drilling services, advanced production systems, well services, and integrated project management.

Knight Oil Tools,

Lafayette, La., has named Robert C. Veazey as its new CFO. He will oversee all financial affairs of Knight's subsidiaries and affiliates. Veazey joins Knight after the sale of Veazey & Co., a firm of CPAs and business con- sultants he founded. He is a University of Louisiana gradu- ate and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the Louisiana Society of Certified Public Accountants, the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts, and the Association of Certified Merger and Acquisition Analysts.

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Knight On Tools is the largest privately held rental and fishing tools business in the oil and gas industry and includes Knight Fishing Services, Knight Well Services, and Knight Manufacturing.

Moble Denton,

London, has announced two executive appointments within its American operations. The company appointed Michael Lowe as global business team group director, project management services, and Vernon Luning as president, Lowe Offshore International, US project management services. Lowe will be responsible for developing the company's global field development project management capabilities. He furthers a 35-year career in domestic and international oil and gas project management and market development. Lowe managed many upstream projects in the US, Europe, New Zealand, Ecuador, Brazil, Thailand, China, and Mexico. He is the founder of Lowe Offshore International and had previously assumed the role of Lowe Offshore president from 1981 to August 2 00 7, when the company was acquired by Noble Denton. Luning previously served as senior project manager with Lowe Offshore and brings more than 35 years of industry experience in offshore construction management.