Bell Geospace, Inc. Names Piette Chief Executive Officer

HOUSTON (ots-PRNewswire) - Bell Geospace, Inc. has appointedDaniel J. Piette to the position of President and Chief ExecutiveOfficer. Piette will oversee all operational, engineering, sales,and marketing strategies for Bell Geospace, as well as softwareand business development in the United States andinternationally. "While I am pleased to be assuming this newposition, I am particularly excited about future opportunitiesfor Bell Geospace," said Daniel J. Piette, President and CEO ofBell Geospace. Piette replaces Larry J. White, who resigned topursue other interests. Piette joined Bell Geospace in 1997 as Vice President of Salesand Marketing, and in January of 1999 was promoted to ChiefOperating Officer and Executive Vice President. Piette has over18 years experience in the oil and gas industry. Before joiningBell Geospace, he served as Vice President/General Manager of theAsia Pacific Region at Landmark Graphics Corporation. He alsoheld positions at Terra-Mar Resource Information Services, asoftware start-up company; David P. Cook and Associates, an oiland gas software company; and Exxon Company, USA. Piette holds a degree in Mining Engineering from theUniversity of Wisconsin at Madison and is a member of the Societyof Petroleum Engineers. Bell Geospace, Inc., based in Houston, Texas is a privatelyheld, technology-based company that is the exclusive provider ofhigh-resolution Full Tensor Gradient (FTG) data to the oil andgas market. Leading exploration and production companies employthe company's products and services to gradient optimize seismicdata and identify promising drilling locations. Bell Geospace,Inc. can be visited via the Internet at www.bellgeo.com. otsOriginal Text Service: Bell Geospace, Inc. Internet:http://www.newsaktuell.de Contact: Diana Galindo of BellGeospace, 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 BellGeospace, Inc. Web site: http://www.bellgeo.com

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