Chris is well-known in Oil and Gas in New Zealand.interesting...

Chris is well-known in Oil and Gas in New Zealand.
interesting background

Dr Chris McKeown joins the senior management team as General Manager, Southeast Asia. He was previously Business Development Manager.

New Zealand Oil & Gas chief executive Andrew Knight says the appointments align the company’s management with its focus on cost effectiveness and maximising value from its current portfolio.

"We are focusing on creating more value from our existing assets with a more efficient and cost effective structure.

“In this environment it makes sense to combine responsibility for our exploration and operations activity.

"It is also the right time to establish a new role with responsibility for managing our assets located outside New Zealand following our drilling success in the Kisaran production sharing contract and the expansion of our portfolio in Sumatra.”

Dr McKeown joined New Zealand Oil & Gas in 2012. He has previously been chief executive of a start-up oil company, asset manager of a producing oil field, and general manager of a gas exploration company. Chris moved to New Zealand in 2002 after working in business development and reservoir engineering in the UK. He has PhD in Geology