Forest selects former ARCO executive senior vice president for Alaska

Forest Oil has named Leonard Gurule senior vice president in Alaska. Gurule will be responsible for directing all Forest Oil’s activities in Alaska, the company said Sept. 24, including exploration, production, drilling and engineering. He will report to Craig Clark, Forest’s president and chief executive officer.

Gurule most recently was chairman of the board and CEO of Virginia Indonesia Co. He previously spent 19 years with ARCO. His last position there was as executive vice president operations for ARCO Indonesia.

Gurule also worked for ARCO in Alaska, managing ARCO’s Prudhoe Bay operations and construction activities, engineering support for ARCO’s Alaska exploration activities and petroleum engineering support for ARCO’s Kuparuk field. Gurule has a bachelor of science degree in engineering from the University of New Mexico.