Chevron names new E&P president

Chevron Corp. said Feb. 13 that Raymond Wilcox, president of Chevron North America Exploration and Production Co., will retire effective March 31 to become president and chief executive officer of Chevron Phillips Chemical Co. LLC, a company owned equally by Chevron and ConocoPhillips.

Wilcox will be succeeded by Gary Luquette, currently managing director of the European strategic business unit of Chevron International Exploration and Production Co.

Wilcox, 59, joined Chevron as a design and construction engineer in 1968, and spent the early part of his career in a variety of onshore and offshore production activities in California and Louisiana, and was named to his current position in 2002.

Luquette, 50, joined Chevron in 1978 as a design and construction engineer in the Lafayette, La., exploration and production unit. He was named manager of enhanced oil recovery for P.T. Caltex Pacific Indonesia in 1993, returned to the United States to manage the San Joaquin Valley profit center in 1996 and was promoted to vice president of the San Joaquin Valley business unit in 1999. He was named to his current position, based in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 2003.