Ray Thornton Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas Area

Houston, Texas Area

Involved in Oil & Energy consultant work in Mexico City.

I was the VP of EMS Florida during this time. It was a start-up division of the company.

I helped launch EMS Mexico and transitioned it from a startup to a full-scale operation. We won a 10-year, US$400M contract with Pemex. Helped establish EMS Group as the leader in pipeline maintenance in Mexico.

I accelerated the company's presence in Mexico by spearheading a joint venture with a Mexican pipeline company while running other operations in Latin America. In addition, in a join venture we won a contract from Pemex for a total value of $107M. Also,completed two contracts in Ecuador and Venezuela.

I worked for Schlumberger as a General Manager in Bolivia and Mexico for their seismic division after they bought Baker Hughes/Western Geophysical. Planned, executed, managed and completed a US$30M contract under budget in Bolivia.

I was promoted to General Manager in Nigeria after having spent several years as the Operations Manager/Supervisor in Nigeria, Russia, Romania and Brazil.

I spent several years doing field work all over Latin America and Africa. As supervisor of operations in Nigeria, our division represented the most profitable of all operations in Africa and the Middle East. Negotiated 3 favorable contracts with union officials in Nigeria.