Jersey Oil & Gas has announced the appointment of Les Thomas to the board as an independent non-executive director.
Thomas was CEO of Ithaca Energy from 2013 to 2020 and served for eight years on the board of John Wood Group as chief executive of its production facilities business and the group director responsible for HSE. Prior to this, he spent 22 years with Marathon Oil UK.
Thomas is an independent director of Repsol Sinopec Resources UK, and a non-executive director at Avingtrans.
Marcus Stanton, chair of Jersey Oil & Gas, said: “We are very pleased to welcome Les to the company as an independent non-executive director… His wealth of experience in the UK North Sea leading upstream and services businesses will be of significant value to JOG as we progress our Greater Buchan Area development project and take the company through its next phase of growth.”