Anadarko Petroleum Corp. announced three executive management changes in the company's operations in the US, Algeria, and emerging international regions.
Rex Alman, currently senior vice-president, domestic operations, has been named senior vice-president, Algeria, and managing director of wholly owned Anadarko subsidiary Anadarko Algeria Co. LLC. Alman will oversee all of Anadarko's operations in Algeria, where the company has discovered 12 fields with reserves totaling 2.8 billion bbl of oil.
Alman succeeds Tony Meyer, who has been named vice-president, international and Alaska operations. Meyer will be responsible for Anadarko's recent expansion into the Middle East, where the firm has assumed operatorship of fields on Blocks 12 and 13 in Qatar from BP PLC (OGJ Online, June 6, 2002).
Meyer, in turn, succeeds Mark Pease, who has been named vice-president, domestic operations. Pease will oversee Anadarko's US onshore and offshore operations. Anadarko's operations in the Lower 48 spans from the Gulf of Mexico through the Midcontinent and various western states.
In other upstream moves, William C. Nolan Jr. has been elected chairman of Murphy Oil Corp. effective July 15. Nolan succeeds R. Madison Murphy, who will remain on the company's board and serve as chairman of the board's audit committee.
Nolan has been a director for Murphy since 1977. He worked in Murphy's law department during 1964-69. Afterwards, he started the law firm Nolan & Alderson, where he is a partner. He also is president of Noalmark Broadcasting Corp., which owns radio stations in Arkansas and New Mexico.
Downstream moves
Joseph Monroe has been named senior vice-president, supply and distribution, for Tesoro Refining & Marketing Co., a unit of San Antonio-based Tesoro Petroleum Corp. Monroe succeeds Steve Wormington, who was recently named president, California and Southwest region, for the Tesoro refining unit (OGJ, May 6, 2002, p. 48).
Monroe will oversee all activities related to Tesoro's purchase of refinery feedstocks; logistical operations, including pipelines, terminals, and marine activities; and bulk marketing of refined products. Before joining Tesoro, Monroe worked for Unocal Corp. for 23 years, serving most recently as vice-president, pipelines and terminals, and as president of Unocal Pipeline Co.