Kosmos Energy Appoints Roy A. Franklin to Board of Directors
June 10 2021 - 2:00AM
Business Wire
Kosmos Energy (NYSE/LSE: KOS) announced today that Mr. Roy A.
Franklin has joined its Board of Directors, effective June 9, 2021.
Mr. Franklin is a senior executive with more than 45 years in the
energy industry and extensive board experience in multiple
companies both in the public and private sector.
Mr. Franklin currently serves as Chairman of the international
energy services group, John Wood Group PLC (“Wood”), and is also a
member of the Advisory Board of Kerogen Capital LLC.
In Mr. Franklin’s current role at Wood, he has overseen the
company’s strategic positioning for the energy transition,
broadening the company’s core activities from oilfield services to
sustainable energy infrastructure, delivering solutions for a
net-zero future. Wood is recognized as a sector leader in ESG
matters with an AA rating from MSCI (Kosmos is also AA rated by
MSCI) and Mr. Franklin’s experience in this area will be invaluable
to Kosmos as it continues to navigate the energy transition.
He was previously the Chairman of Premier Oil plc, a UK-based
independent oil and gas exploration company, from 2017 until its
acquisition in 2021, the Chairman of privately-held Energean Israel
Ltd from 2017 to 2021, and the Deputy Chairman of Equinor A/S from
2015 until 2019.
In addition to those listed above, he has served on the boards
of a number of other international companies in non-executive
roles, including Statoil A/S from 2007 until 2013, Santos Ltd from
2006 until 2017, Keller Group plc from 2007 until 2016, and Amec
Foster Wheeler Plc from 2016 until 2017 when it was acquired by
Wood.
Mr. Franklin began his career at BP where he spent 18 years in
roles of increasing responsibility. He then joined Clyde Petroleum
plc as Group Managing Director, and served as CEO of Paladin
Resources plc from 1997 until its acquisition by Talisman Energy in
2005. In 2004 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire, and
in 2006 the Petroleum Group Medal of the Geological Society of
London, both in recognition of his services to the UK oil and gas
industry.
Mr. Franklin earned his Bachelor of Science in Geology in 1973
from the University of Southampton, UK.
“We are delighted to have Roy join the Kosmos Board of
Directors,” said Andrew G. Inglis, Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer. “He has an impressive record of achievement across the
upstream sector. In his executive roles he has created significant
value for shareholders and in his non-executive board positions the
companies he has served have benefited from his deep strategic
understanding of the sector. This is a time of challenge and
opportunity in the upstream sector and I am confident Roy’s
extensive and varied experience will prove invaluable at the Kosmos
Board.”
About Kosmos Energy
Kosmos is a full-cycle deepwater independent oil and gas
exploration and production company focused along the Atlantic
Margins. Our key assets include production offshore Ghana,
Equatorial Guinea and U.S. Gulf of Mexico, as well as a world-class
gas development offshore Mauritania and Senegal. Kosmos is listed
on the New York Stock Exchange and London Stock Exchange and is
traded under the ticker symbol KOS. As an ethical and transparent
company, Kosmos is committed to doing things the right way. The
Company’s Business Principles articulate our commitment to
transparency, ethics, human rights, safety and the environment.
Read more about this commitment in our Corporate Responsibility
Report. For additional information, visit www.kosmosenergy.com.
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