BP Announces Appointment of New Non-Executive Director

The board of BP p.l.c. announced today that Andrew Shilston will join the Board as a non-executive director with effect from 1st January 2012.

Andrew Shilston is currently chief financial officer at Rolls-Royce Holdings plc.

 Carl-Henric Svanberg, chairman of BP, said: “We continue to strengthen the Board with world class individuals. Andrew has deep financial and City experience together with industry experience from his time with Enterprise Oil and Cairn Energy. I welcome Andrew to BP.”

Andrew Shilston

Andrew Shilston has been chief financial officer of Rolls-Royce Holdings plc since 2002. Prior to that he was Finance Director at Enterprise Oil plc from 1993 to 2002. He was a non-executive director at Cairn Energy plc from 2004 to 2008, and is currently a non-executive director of Circle Holdings plc. He is retiring from Rolls-Royce Holdings plc at the end of 2011.

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Offshore Nieuws Staff, December 12, 2011; Image: rolls-royce