Cameron International Corporation
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| Type | Public (NYSE: CAM) |
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| Industry | Oil well Services, Equipment |
| Founded | 1920, Houston, Texas |
| Headquarters | Park Towers South, Houston, Texas |
| Key people | Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer: Jack Moore |
| Products | Technical services to the petroleum industry; Construction |
| Revenue | US $3.74 billion (2006) |
| Employees | 15,400 (2008) |
| Website | c-a-m.com |
Cameron International Corporation (formerly Cooper Cameron Corporation, CCC), NYSE: CAM, is a Fortune 500 company and a global provider of pressure control, processing, flow control and compression systems as well as project management and aftermarket services for the oil and gas and process industries. It employs approximately 15,000 people and is headquartered in Park Towers South, Houston, Texas.[1] In 2006 Cooper Cameron was officially renamed "Cameron."[2]
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History
On March 1, 1999 Cooper Cameron changed its stock ticker symbol to "CAM."[3]
Before the company's headquarters moved to its current location, the company headquarters were in the 515 Post Oak Boulevard building.[4]
The Cameron Corporation received its current name as of May 1, 2006.[5]
Organization
Cameron is organized into the following divisions:[6]
- Drilling & Production Systems manufactures pressure control equipment and provides aftermarket services for worldwide onshore, offshore and subsea oil & gas drilling and production operations. Also provides system design and project management services for worldwide offshore oil and gas completion operations.
- Valves & Measurement manufactures flow control equipment and provides aftermarket services for worldwide onshore, offshore and subsea oil & gas production, pipeline and process operations.
- Measurement Systems designs, manufactures and distributes measurement, quality, and control instrumentation for the global oil & gas and process control industries.
- Petreco Process Systems provides processing equipment and aftermarket services for worldwide onshore and offshore oil & gas production and refining operations.
- Compression Systems manufactures compression equipment and provides aftermarket services for worldwide onshore and offshore gas production and transmission and for global process operations.
History
Cooper Industries began in 1833 when Charles and Elias Cooper established a foundry in Mt. Vernon, Ohio. "Cooper" was licensed to produce the Corliss steam engine in 1869 and entered the production of natural gas internal combustion engines in 1900. In 1929, Cooper became the Cooper-Bessemer Corporation when it merged with Bessemer Gas Engine Company, which was founded in Grove City, Pennsylvania in 1899. In 1958, Cooper diversified into the controls industry with the establishment of the En-Tronic Controls Group. Five years later, the company acquired the Ajax Engines Company, founded in 1877, and the Pennsylvania Process, founded to manufacture compressors in 1920.[7]
In 1965, the growing Cooper Industries branched out into electrical, automotive and tools and hardware industries. Two years later, it moved its headquarters to Houston and in 1968 began the Cooper Rolls joint venture with Rolls-Royce to market gas turbines.
1987 marked the acquisition of Joy Industrial Compressor Group, founded in 1955 in Buffalo, New York, which was renamed Cooper Turbocompressor as part of Cooper Compression. W-K-M valves company, established in 1905 in Houston, and Demco Valve Company, established in 1947, were both acquired by Cooper Flow Control Division in the same year. One year later, Cooper acquired Enterprise Engine aftermarket services business.
1989 marked perhaps Cooper's most important acquisition, Cameron Iron Works, which was renamed Cooper Oil Tool. Cameron Iron Works was incorporated in Houston in 1920 and had branched out to Canada in Edmonton in 1951. It purchased the British Oil Field Equipment Company of London and Leeds in 1954 and acquired McEvoy valve and wellhead manufacturer, founded in 1905, and Willis oilfield choke manufacturer, formed in 1939, in 1987.
In 1994, Cooper Industries spun off its Petroleum and Industrial Equipment Group to focus on the electrical products, automotive products and tools & hardware businesses. One year later, Cooper Cameron Corporation was spun off as a publicly traded company with a separate management group and Cameron and Cooper Cameron Valves divisions were formed from Cooper Oil Tool. Wheeling Machine Products Company's oilfield coupling business was also sold.
The growing company acquired many different companies into various divisions from 1996 to 1998. Ingram Cactus Corporation, Tundra Valve & Wellhead Corporation, Wellhead Services and Marta Company were combined into Cameron. Ajax Repair & Supply, General Turbine Systems, PDQ Machine, and certain assets of Enox Technologies were acquired and combined into Cooper Energy Services. Daniel Ball Valve and Orbit Valve International were acquired into Cooper Cameron Valves
In 1999, the rotating compressor business was sold to Rolls-Royce and Cooper Energy Services merged with Nickles Industrial Manufacturing and purchased Elliot Turbocharger Group, Inc. Three years later, Cooper Cameron Valves acquired Nutron Industries and in 2003, Cooper Energy Services and Cooper Turbocompressor combined to form Cooper Compression.
In the 21st century, Petreco International was acquired and began operation as a separate division and PCC Flow Technologies, NuFlo Technologies and Dresser Flow Control were acquired and combined into Cooper Cameron Valves and Cameron.[8]
In 2006, Cooper Cameron Corporation officially changed its name to Cameron International Corporation.[9]
Role in 2010 Gulf Oil spill
The blowout preventer that failed to close the well head and stop the flow of oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil well in the Gulf of Mexico was manufactured and sold to Transocean in 2001 by Cameron.[10]
See also
Notes and references
Notes
- ↑ "Cameron Locator." Cameron International Corporation. Retrieved on April 28, 2010.
- ↑ Cameron International Corporation (2006-05-05). "Cooper Cameron Shareholders Approve Change of Company's Name to Cameron". Press release. http://www.c-a-m.com/content/company/news_item.cfm?ID=40000735. Retrieved 2006-05-10.
- ↑ "Cooper Cameron Corporation to Change Stock Symbol to "CAM"." Cooper Cameron Corporation. February 22, 1999. Retrieved on May 14, 2010.
- ↑ "Locations." Cooper Cameron. December 14, 2000. Retrieved on May 14, 2010.
- ↑ "Cooper Cameron is now Cameron." Cameron International Corporation. May 6, 2006. Retrieved on May 14, 2010.
- ↑ Official Cameron Organization
- ↑ Keller, David N. (1983). Cooper Industries 1833-1983. Ohio University Press. ISBN 0-8214-0751-1.
- ↑ Cameron (2005-12-01). "Cooper Cameron Acquires Dresser Flow Control Businesses". Press release. http://www.c-a-m.com/content/company/news_item.cfm?ID=15661909. Retrieved 2006-05-10.
- ↑ Cameron (2006-05-05). "Cooper Cameron Shareholders Approve Change of Company's Name to Cameron". Press release. http://www.c-a-m.com/content/company/news_item.cfm?ID=40000735. Retrieved 2006-06-18.
- ↑ Gulf of Mexico oil spill could cost BP $3 billion or more
References
- "Company History". C-A-M.com. http://www.c-a-m.com/content/company/history.cfm. Retrieved May 10, 2006.
External links
- Official Cameron Home Page
- Cooper Cameron Corporation - Company History
- Cooper Cameron Corporation (Archive)
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