Petrofac's Integrated Energy Services (IES) business chief executive Andy Inglis is to leave the company at the end of February 2014 and join exploration firm Kosmos Energy as CEO and chairman, based in Dallas, Texas.
Inglis will join the Kosmos board on March 1. Current CEO Brian F. Maxted, a founding partner of Kosmos, will become chief exploration officer and continue to serve on the board.
As previously announced, John Kemp III, Kosmos’ current chairman of the board, will retire from the board of directors and from his consulting position with the company.
Rob Jewkes, currently managing director of developments for IES, will take over as chief operating officer of Petrofac's IES business.Jewkes has been with Petrofac since 2004, and has spent the last five years as managing director of developments for IES.
Inglis joined Petrofac in January 2011, having spent 30 years with BP, most recently as CEO of its exploration and production business. He was an executive director on the BP board between 2007 and 2010. From 2004 to 2007, he was BP executive vice president and deputy chief executive of E&P, with responsibility for BP's growth areas, including Azerbaijan, Angola, Algeria, Gulf of Mexico, Egypt, Trinidad, and the Asia-Pacific region. He is a former non-executive director of BAE Systems plc and TNK-BP Ltd.
Inglis holds a master’s degree in Engineering from Pembroke College, Cambridge University. He is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer, a fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
Maxted has served as chief executive officer since January 2011. Prior to taking on the role of chief executive officer, he served as chief operating officer of the company. Before co-founding Kosmos in 2003, he was senior vice president of exploration for Triton Energy, where he led a series of discoveries offshore Equatorial Guinea, Malaysia and Colombia.
He holds a master’s degree in organic geochemistry and petrology from the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and a bachelor of science in geology from the University of Sheffield.
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