Brown, Holly named Anadarko executive VPs

May 12, 2017
Anadarko Petroleum Corp., The Woodlands, Tex., has named Daniel E. Brown executive vice-president, international and deepwater operations, and Bradley J. Holly executive vice-president, US onshore exploration and production.  
Anadarko Petroleum Corp., The Woodlands, Tex., has named Daniel E. Brown executive vice-president, international and deepwater operations, and Bradley J. Holly executive vice-president, US onshore exploration and production. Darrell E. Hollek, formerly executive vice-president, operations, will serve as a senior adviser until his retirement later this year.

Brown, who began his career with Anadarko in 1998, most recently served as senior vice-president, international and deepwater operations, beginning in August 2016. He has held a variety of positions within the company, including vice-president, operations, for Anadarko’s southern and Appalachia region; vice-president, corporate planning; general manager of the Maverick basin and the company's Freestone-Chalk area; business advisor for planning and reserves administration in the Gulf of Mexico; and engineering roles in both the US onshore and the Gulf of Mexico.

Holly began his career in 1994 with Amoco Corp. and joined Anadarko in 1997. He most recently served as senior vice-president, US onshore exploration and production. He served as senior vice-president, operations, for Anadarko’s Rocky Mountain region; vice-president, operations, for the southern and Appalachia region; and general manager of Anadarko’s Greater Natural Buttes area in eastern Utah and the Maverick basin, which included the Eagle Ford shale development in South Texas.

Before that, Holly served as reserves and planning manager for the southern and Appalachia region and was a reservoir engineer and development supervisor on Anadarko’s Marco Polo and K2 developments in the deepwater gulf.

Hollek, who began his career in 1980 with Kerr-McGee Corp. as a field engineer in Morgan City, La., was appointed executive vice-president, operations, in August 2016 after serving as executive vice-president of US onshore exploration and production since April 2015 (OGJ Online, Aug. 23, 2016). He also was senior vice-president of operations, deepwater Americas; vice-president of Gulf of Mexico operations and global deepwater drilling; vice-president, Gulf of Mexico; and vice-president of operations.