Total SA has promoted three executives and announced that Jean-Luc Vermeulen, Total executive vice-president and president, upstream, will retire. The moves all are effective Sept. 1.
Yves-Louis Darricarrérewas appointed Total executive vice-president and president, gas and power. He also was named a member of the company's executive committee. Darricarrére has served as senior vice-president, Northern Europe, exploration and production, as well as a member of the company's group management committee.
Michel Bénézit, senior vice-president, Africa, exploration and production, was appointed senior vice-president, northern Europe, exploration and production.
Jean Privey, vice-president, gas and power, was appointed senior vice-president, Africa, exploration and production.
Upstream moves
BP PLC announced David Jackson was appointed company secretary and head of the chairman's office.
Jackson succeeds Judith Hanratty, who will retire after 28 years with BP, 9 of them serving as company secretary.
Before joining BP in 2002, Jackson served for 13 years as company secretary and general counsel for Powergen PLC.
Jorge Camargo, former president of Braspetro, the international arm of Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras), has been hired by Norway's Statoil ASA as vice-president, new business ventures.
Camargo, who headed Petrobras's London office for several years before returning to Rio de Janeiro, will now be based in Stavanger.
K2 Energy Corp., Calgary, has appointed David H. Young as president and CEO and has named Michael C. Erickson chief operating officer.
Paul MacKay, K2's current president and CEO, stepped down to resume his previous role as technical advisor.
Young is president and majority owner of Hamilton Group Inc. (HGI), a Toronto-based private investment holding company with subsidiaries in Canada and France. In addition, HGI has an active investment portfolio in Canadian public energy companies.
Through HGI and its affiliated companies, Young is the largest shareholder in K2 Energy with 18.6% interest.
Erickson has been with K2 Energy since June 1996. He will concentrate on the company's oil and gas operations on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana.
American Oil & Gas Inc., Denver, has named Andrew P. Calerich president and chief financial officer. Calerich succeeds Patrick D. O'Brien, who has resigned as president. O'Brien will still serve as CEO and chairman.
Calerich previously served as vice-president and CFO for PYR Energy Corp., Denver. Before working for PYR, he was a financial consultant for oil and gas producers.
Energy Partners Ltd., New Orleans, named William Flores Jr. senior vice-president, drilling, and T. Rodney Dykes senior vice-president, production.
Previously, Flores was senior vice-president, drilling for Houston-based Ocean Energy Inc., which is being merged with Devon Energy Corp., Oklahoma City.
Dykes joined Energy Partners in August 2001 as vice-president of operations. Previously, he was vice-president of operations and business development for CMS Oil & Gas Co., a former subsidiary of the Dearborn, Mich.-based CMS Energy Corp. Perenco SA bought CMS Oil & Gas last year (OGJ, July 30, 2002).
Downstream moves
Citgo Petroleum Corp., Tulsa, said Petroleo de Venezuela SA director Luis Marín was named Citgo president and CEO, replacing Oswaldo Contreras.
Before this appointment, Marín served as head of PDVSA's eastern division. He will relocate to Tulsa from Puerto La Cruz.
Contreras was appointed as Citgo's president and CEO in October 2000.
ChevronTexaco Corp. announced a new management team to oversee the restructuring of its global refining and marketing organization, which is being changed from a geographical to a functional structure.
Global Downstream Executive Vice-Pres. Patricia A. Woertz said, "We have established as our goal the transformation of our global downstream into one that is competitive everywhere we do business. We are confident that a functional alignment will bring us greater efficiencies in this extremely competitive sector." The new organization is expected to be fully operational by early 2004.
The company named Jeet S. Bindra global refining president, Michael K. Wirth global supply and trading president, S. Shariq Yosufzai, global marketing president, and Mark A. Nelson, global lubricants president.
In addition, David C. Reeves, currently ChevronTexaco's president of North America products, was named managing director and CEO of Caltex Australia Ltd., replacing Bindra, effective Aug. 11.
Matthew J. Foehr, currently vice-president of finance for North America products, was named vice-president of finance, global downstream.
Other moves
El Paso Corp., Houston, announced that its board unanimously elected Douglas L. Foshee, currently Halliburton Co. executive vice-president and COO, as El Paso's president and CEO, effective Sept. 2.
Ronald L. Kuehn, Jr., who is currently serving as El Paso's interim CEO, will continue to act as the company's chairman. Kuehn said he would work closely with Foshee during the transition as El Paso proceeds with its operational and financial plan. Former El Paso CEO William Wise resigned under pressure in February, and Kuehn has been running the company since then. Shareholders Oscar Wyatt and Selim Zilkha, upset by El Paso's plunging earnings and stock price, launched a proxy fight against the incumbent board. El Paso shareholders narrowly voted to retain the incumbent board (OGJ Online, June 23, 2003).
Foshee had been with Halliburton since 2001, starting as executive vice-president and CFO. This year, he was named executive vice-president and COO.
Previously, Foshee was president and CEO at Nuevo Energy Co., Houston. From 1993-97, he served with Torch Energy Advisors Inc., Houston, in various capacities, including COO and CEO.