Amec Foster Wheeler names new CEO

Halliburton senior vice-president to join the company in June

Britain’s largest oil and gas engineering group Amec Foster Wheeler has appointed Dr Jon Lewis as chief executive with effect from 1 June 2016.

Lewis has been employed in a number of senior roles at Halliburton Company since 1996. He is currently based in Houston, Texas where he is a senior vice-president and member of the Halliburton executive committee, with responsibility, since 2014 for leading its largest division, completion & production.

He joined Halliburton following nine years in academia, where he was NERC research fellow at the Royal School of Mines at Imperial College in London and Conoco lecturer in petroleum geology at Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh. Lewis received his PhD in reservoir characterisation from the University of Reading in 1987.

Lewis, who will be based in London, will receive a salary of £775,000 per annum, will be eligible for an annual bonus and participation in the long term incentive plan, and receive other benefits in accordance with the company's remuneration policy for executive directors. 

John Connolly, Amec Foster Wheeler  chairman, said: "I am delighted that Jon will soon be joining us as our new CEO. He brings with him thirty years of experience in the oil and gas industry across many parts of the world, including 20 years as a senior executive at Halliburton where he built a reputation for safe and ethical operations, strategic market insight, strong leadership, commercial discipline and consistently delivered against commitments."