B. D. McCampbell has been named general manager of Zapata Off-Shore Drilling Co. and its worldwide drilling operations, it was announced in Houston, Texas, by E. F. Shiels, senior vice-president of Zapata Norness, Inc., the parent company. He will have his office in Suite 1701, Houston Club Building.

Mr. McCampbell, who was made a vice-president of Zapata Norness in April 1968, is a petroleum engineering graduate of Oklahoma University, class of 1941, and has been associated with the oil drilling industry since 1946.