Oil States International Elects Robert Bob L. Potter as Member of its Board of Directors
July 26, 2017 at 05:37 pm EDT
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Oil States International, Inc. announced that its board of directors elected Robert Bob L. Potter as a member of its board of directors. Mr. Potter will serve as a Class III Director with an initial term expiring in May 2019. Robert Bob L. Potter is the retired President of FMC Technologies, Inc. (FMC), having held that position from August 2012 until his retirement in November 2013. Mr. Potter joined FMC in 1973 after his graduation from Rice University. He served in a number of sales, operations and management roles prior to his appointment in 2001 as Vice President of Energy Processing for FMC. He was appointed Senior Vice President of Energy Processing and Global Surface Wellhead in 2007 and Executive Vice President of Energy Systems in 2010. Mr. Potter is a former chairman of the board for the Petroleum Equipment Suppliers Association (PESA) and a former member of the board of directors of the National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA). Mr. Potter is a current member of the Council of Overseers for the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. Mr. Potter currently serves on the Board of Directors of Tidewater Inc.
Oil States International, Inc. is a global provider of manufactured products and services to customers in the energy, industrial and military sectors. The Company's manufactured products include highly engineered capital equipment, as well as products consumed in the drilling, well construction and production of oil and natural gas. It operates through three segments. The Offshore/Manufactured Products segment designs, manufactures and markets capital equipment utilized on floating production systems, subsea pipeline infrastructure, and offshore drilling rigs and vessels, along with short-cycle and other products. The Well Site Services segment includes a range of equipment and services that are used to drill for, establish and maintain the flow of oil and natural gas from a well throughout its life cycle. The Downhole Technologies segment provides oil and gas perforation systems and downhole tools in support of completion, intervention, wireline and well abandonment operations.