David French and Andres Gonzalez
On February 2 (Reuters) – Talos Energy, a medium -sized American oil manufacturer with activities in the Mexican bay, is ready to call the veteran of the director Shell Paul Goodfellow as the next general director, two individuals who know this matter on Sunday.
The appointment of Goodfellow, which currently serves as the foremost internal auditor in Shell, is to be announced this week, give sources, asking for anonymity because the matter is confidential.
Goodfellow will replace the founding father of Talos and long-time general director Tim Duncan, who suddenly left the company in August after his 12-year stay during his 12-year assist in the fifth of the size of the natural gas manufacturer in the Gulf of Mexican.
Veteran Shell, for 34 years, Goodfellow played quite a few roles in Energy Major, who is the largest operator in the Mexican bay. This includes acting as a deputy president for deep operations and president of Shell Midstream Partners, according to his LinkedIn profile.
Talos and Shell didn’t answer immediately to the requests for comment.
Talos based in Houston, who has a market capitalization of about $ 1.8 billion, is in search of a brand new headmaster since Duncan’s surprise. On January 6, Talos said he identified the recent general director, without calling an individual, at the same time that the temporary general director of Joseph Mills gave way to implement other possibilities.
Since the departure of Duncan, the company has also survived Pay with the best shareholder Carlos Slim, whose investment company has 24% shares in the company. Talos briefly accepted the so -called poison so that the Mexican billionaire would try to take control of the company.
Talos was founded in 2012 by Duncan, and the support of Private Equity Apollo Global Management and Riverstone Holdings, which invested a complete of $ 600 million in the company.
The oil manufacturer, which was made public in 2018 by reversing the reference to one other operator at the Stone Energy Sea, produced a mean of 96,500 barrels of oil equivalent per day in the third quarter, in accordance with the latest presentation of quarterly earnings. (David French report in New York and Andres Gonzalez in London; edition of Jamie Freed)
