Stratagraph, a pioneer in providing mud logging and pressure detection services to the global oil and gas industry, has appointed Wayne Allen Cook Jr as its new director of business development.

Based in Lafayette, Louisiana, US, Cook worked for Stratagraph as a mud logger and marketing representative from 1997–2004 and most recently served as a marketing representative at Seitel, a provider of 3D and 2D seismic data and services for the oil and gas industry.