Maersk Oil North Sea UK (Maersk Oil) has named Martin Rune Pedersen as its new Managing Director, following the retirement of current managing director Tom van Leenen.
Martin has been the director of petroleum engineering for Maersk Oil in the UK since 2007.
Maersk Oil is a midsize international oil and gas company operating an oil production of about 600,000 barrels per day and a gas production of up to some 1,000 million cubic feet per day.
The company has a net equity production exceeding 500,000 barrels of oil equivalents per day from fields in the Danish and British part of the North Sea, offshore Qatar, in Algeria and in Kazakhstan. Activities are ongoing in, among others, the Danish, British and Norwegian sectors of the North Sea, Qatar, Algeria, Angola, Kazakhstan, Oman, Brazil and the US Gulf of Mexico.
Source: Maersk Oil