Meyers named as president, CEO of Phillips Alaska

Petroleum News Alaska Staff

Jim Mulva, chairman and chief executive officer of Phillips Petroleum Co., said April 26 in Anchorage that Kevin Meyers, currently president of ARCO Alaska Inc., has been named president and chief executive officer of Phillips Alaska Inc.

Phillips Alaska, Mulva said, will include ARCO’s Alaska businesses plus all of Phillips’ current Alaska operations, including the Kenai liquefied natural gas plant.

Meyers, 46, joined ARCO Exploration and Production Technology in Plano, Texas, in 1980. Among Meyers assignments at Plano was work on development of enhanced recovery technologies for the Kuparuk shallow sands. From 1986-87, Meyers was director of research for enhanced oil recovery studies on the heavy oil reserves in West Sak.

In 1987, Meyers came to work for ARCO Alaska as regional engineer in charge of West Sak development. He later managed both the Kuparuk and Prudhoe Bay engineering departments.

In 1998, Meyers transferred to Midland, Texas, as manager of ARCO’s Permian business unit. He returned to Plano in 1994 as vice president engineering and technology for ARCO International Oil and Gas Co.

In January 1996, Meyers returned to Alaska as senior vice president of the Prudhoe Bay business unit. He became president of ARCO Alaska in 1998.

Meyers earned undergraduate degrees in chemistry and mathematics from Capital University in Ohio and a doctorate in chemical engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.