Chesapeake Energy Corp. (CHK) announced that Anadarko Petroleum Corp.'s (APC) executive Robert Douglas Lawler, 46, will join Chesapeake as Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors, effective June 17.
With Lawler assuming the CEO position at Chesapeake, the Office of the Chairman will be discontinued and Archie Dunham, Steven Dixon and Domenic Dell'Osso Jr. will continue to serve in their roles as non-executive Chairman of the Board, Executive Vice President of Operations and Geosciences and Chief Operating Officer, and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, respectively, Chesapeake Energy said.
During Lawler's 25 years at Anadarko and Kerr-McGee, he served in multiple engineering and leadership positions within a diverse geographic portfolio including U.S. Onshore, deepwater Gulf of Mexico and international assets. He was most recently Senior Vice President, International and Deepwater Operations and a member of Anadarko's Executive Committee.
In addition, Lawler has been instrumental in Anadarko's achievement of industry-leading operational and capital efficiency. He previously served as Anadarko's Vice President, Operations for the Southern and Appalachia Region.
Prior to that, he held positions of increasing responsibility within Anadarko's operations, business planning and analysis departments, including Vice President, Corporate Planning. Lawler began his career in 1988 at Kerr-McGee, which was acquired by Anadarko in 2006.
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