Energy veteran named as Hurricane CEO
North Sea operator Hurricane Energy has named industry veteran Antony Maris as its chief executive following the departure of founder Robert Trice.
Maris is a former chief operating officer at Pharos Energy where he was responsible for the development of oilfields off the coast of Vietnam and onshore assets in Yemen.
The executive, who has 35 years’ experience in the industry, will work alongside Hurricane’s interim CEO Beverley
Smith for a transitional period as an executive director and chief executive designate before taking over the role on 11 September.
Hurricane chairman Steven Mctiernan said: “Maris’s leadership record with entrepreneurial oil and gas companies, and importantly his technical experience and knowledge of the behaviour of fractured basement reservoirs, makes him the ideal candidate.”
Before joining Pharos, Maris also worked in a variety of engineering, commercial and management roles with Consort Resources, Lasmo, Monument
Oil and Gas and Phillips Petroleum.
Smith, a former executive at BG Group, had joined the board of Hurricane in December.
Trice resigned earlier this year after a setback for Hurricane’s Lancaster field west of Shetland.
The company suspended its guidance of 17,000 barrels of oil per day after discovering that flow from one of two wells there interfered with the other.
It is thought the Lancaster field could hold more than 500 million barrels of oil.