Ken Fitzpatrick has been appointed chair of the advisory board of the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) for a 3-year term, effective Sept. 5.
Ken Fitzpatrick has been appointed chair of the advisory board of the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) for a 3-year term, effective Sept. 5.
Over the past 30 years, Fitzpatrick has held several senior industry roles, including chief executive officer of PTTEP Australasia and senior roles at Ampolex, Mobil, Nexen, and Woodside. He has also served as Western Australia’s state chairman of APPEA, the peak body for Australia’s oil and gas industries.
He is the current chair of the Oil, Gas and Energy Resources Growth Centre board.
Fitzpatrick succeeds former chair Dr. Erica Smyth. Smyth joined the board in 2016 and was appointed chair in March 2017.