Anadarko Petroleum Consolidates Leadership Structure - Quick Facts

(RTTNews) - Anadarko Petroleum Corp. (APC) announced Danny Brown, formerly Executive Vice President, International and Deepwater Operations, has been named EVP, U.S. Onshore Operations, with responsibility for the company's upstream and midstream activity in Colorado, Texas, Utah and Wyoming. Mitch Ingram, formerly EVP, Global LNG, has been named EVP, International & Deepwater Operations and Project Management, overseeing Anadarko's development and production activities in Algeria, Ghana, the Gulf of Mexico and Mozambique. Ingram will also assume responsibility for the company's worldwide project-management and construction activities.

Ernie Leyendecker, formerly EVP, International and Deepwater Exploration, has been named EVP, Exploration, with responsibility for the company's worldwide exploration efforts. U.S. onshore exploration is being combined with Leyendecker's prior duties, consolidating all of the company's exploration activities under his direction.

Brad Holly, formerly EVP, U.S. Onshore Exploration and Production, is leaving the company to pursue other interests.

Al Walker, Anadarko CEO, said: "We have successfully narrowed the focus of our business and concentrated development activities in world-class material, scalable assets. Consistent with this approach, our executive management team needed to contract accordingly."