Bell Geospace, Inc. Names Piette Chief Executive Officer

HOUSTON (ots-PRNewswire) - Bell Geospace, Inc. has appointed Daniel J. Piette to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer. Piette will oversee all operational, engineering, sales, and marketing strategies for Bell Geospace, as well as software and business development in the United States and internationally. "While I am pleased to be assuming this new position, I am particularly excited about future opportunities for Bell Geospace," said Daniel J. Piette, President and CEO of Bell Geospace. Piette replaces Larry J. White, who resigned to pursue other interests. Piette joined Bell Geospace in 1997 as Vice President of Sales and Marketing, and in January of 1999 was promoted to Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President. Piette has over 18 years experience in the oil and gas industry. Before joining Bell Geospace, he served as Vice President/General Manager of the Asia Pacific Region at Landmark Graphics Corporation. He also held positions at Terra-Mar Resource Information Services, a software start-up company; David P. Cook and Associates, an oil and gas software company; and Exxon Company, USA. Piette holds a degree in Mining Engineering from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. Bell Geospace, Inc., based in Houston, Texas is a privately held, technology-based company that is the exclusive provider of high-resolution Full Tensor Gradient (FTG) data to the oil and gas market. Leading exploration and production companies employ the company's products and services to gradient optimize seismic data and identify promising drilling locations. Bell Geospace, Inc. can be visited via the Internet at www.bellgeo.com. ots Original Text Service: Bell Geospace, Inc. Internet: http://www.newsaktuell.de Contact: Diana Galindo of Bell Geospace, Inc., 281-591-6900 x402, or email, dgalindo@bellgeo.com; or Christine E. Reel of AVP Enterprises, Inc. 713-629-1316, or email, cereel@earthlink.net, for Bell Geospace, Inc. Web site: http://www.bellgeo.com Subscribers please note that material bearing the slug "PROTEXT" is not part of CTK's news service and is not to be published under the "CTK" slug. Protext is a commercial service providing distribution of press releases from clients, who are identified in the text of Protext reports and who bear full responsibility for their contents. PROTEXT