Chevron Names Senior Upstream Execs

Chevron named two top regional upstream executives November 6 who will take on their new posts effective March 1 2019.

Steven W Green has been appointed president of Chevron North America Exploration and Production, succeeding Jeff Shellebarger who is retiring from Chevron after 38 years. 

Nigel Hearne has been appointed president of Chevron Asia Pacific Exploration and Production, overseeing nine countries in the region. He is currently managing director of Chevron Australia where he also oversees its New Zealand interests. Hearne, who will succeed Green in the new Asia Pacific role, originally joined Texaco in 1989 as a power engineer at the Pembroke refinery in the UK.

Green held the post of vice president, policy, government and public affairs at Chevron for five years until April 2016, until taking on the Asia-Pacific role he is now handing over to Hearne.

Both new appointees will report to Jay Johnson, Chevron’s upstream executive vice president. Chevron CEO Michael Wirth said that Green had shown "exceptional leadership as he guided our upstream operations across the Asia Pacific region over the last several years” while Hearne's recent role in starting up operations at two flagship Western Australia LNG projects [Gorgon and Wheatstone] "makes him exceptionally qualified to assume this key leadership position.” Wirth also commended Shellebarger as "an outstanding leader for Chevron for nearly four decades." (Banner photo credit: Chevron)