Johansen to head ConocoPhillips Alaska

ConocoPhillips has named Trond-Erik Johansen as president of its Alaska operations.

Johansen, currently president of ConocoPhillips’ Southeast Asia Exploration and Production organization, replaces long-time ConocoPhillips Alaska President Jim Bowles, who died while snowmachining on the Kenai Peninsula Feb. 13.

Johansen, a native of Norway, has held a variety of petroleum engineering, project engineering and operations leadership positions in Stavanger, Aberdeen, New Orleans, Houston and Jakarta.

He joined the company in Stavanger, Norway, in 1986 with a master’s degree in petroleum engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology.

He earned an MBA at the Sloan Fellows program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001 and after graduation he moved to Aberdeen to become general manager for drilling and production, supply chain, HSE and the Britannia field asset.

In 2002, Johansen moved to Norway to become operations manager for the Ekofisk field and later general manager for the greater Ekofisk area. In 2005, he became managing director for ConocoPhillips in Norway.

Johansen moved to Jakarta in early 2007 where he led the Indonesian business unit until April 2008 when he was named president, Asia Pacific, Exploration and Production, based in Singapore.

The appointment as president of ConocoPhillips Alaska is effective April 1.

—Petroleum News