Wheeler becomes director of regulation at UK’s Oil and Gas Authority

March 3, 2017
Tom Wheeler has been named director of regulation at the UK’s Oil and Gas Authority (OGA), effective Mar. 1, following the retirement of Simon Toole.

Wheeler became head of commercial for UK’s Department of Energy and Climate Change’s upstream oil and gas team in 2014 before joining the OGA in 2015. He previously trained as a solicitor and spent 7 years working in private practice before taking a role as in-house counsel in the oil and gas industry.

Toole’s career in the UK oil and gas industry spans 33 years.