EnQuest has named Neil McCulloch as the company’s new chief operating officer (COO), who will also join the board as an executive director.
McCulloch, currently EnQuest’s president, North Sea, is being promoted to the group position of COO. It is intended that McCulloch will join the EnQuest board, as an executive director, at EnQuest’s 2017 annual general meeting (AGM). McCulloch’s existing responsibilities for EnQuest’s North Sea operations, will expand to include production from Kraken and EnQuest’s operations in Malaysia.
“I am very pleased to congratulate Neil McCulloch, both on his appointment to the role of chief operating officer and on being invited to join the board,” Jock Lennox, chairman of EnQuest said.“These appointments recognize Neil’s success in helping to increase EnQuest’s production from a 2013 average of 24,222 boe/d, before he joined us, to 42,520 boe/d in H1 2016.”
In addition, Enquest announced the appointment of Carl Hughes as a non-executive director.
Hughes was previously a vice chairman and senior audit partner at Deloitte, based in London; he was also global leader of Deloitte’s energy & resources practice. He retired from Deloitte in 2015, with nearly 30 years’ experience of the oil & gas, mining and utilities industries, focusing principally on the provision of audit, due diligence, transaction support and advisory services. Hughes is a trustee and member of council of the Energy Institute. Hughes will also become a member of the Remuneration Committee and of the Risk Committee.
On joining the board, Hughes will take over from Philip Nolan as chairman of EnQuest’s Audit Committee, a position which Nolan is occupying on an interim basis, following Jock Lennox being appointed chairman of the EnQuest board on 8 September 2016.