Energy veteran named CEO of North Sea operator Hurricane

North Sea operator Hurricane Energy has named industry veteran Antony Maris as its chief executive following the departure of founder Robert Trice.

Maris has 35 years’ experience in the industry. Picture: contributed.

Maris is a former chief operating officer at Pharos Energy where he was responsible for the development of oilfields off the coast of Vietnam and onshore assets in Yemen.

The executive, who has 35 years’ experience in the industry, will work alongside Hurricane’s interim CEO Beverley Smith for a transitional period as an executive director and chief executive designate before taking over the role on 11 September.

Steven McTiernan, chairman of Hurricane, said: “Maris’s leadership record with entrepreneurial oil and gas companies, and importantly his technical experience and knowledge of the behaviour of fractured basement reservoirs, makes him the ideal candidate.”

Before joining Pharos, Maris worked in a variety of engineering, commercial and management roles with Consort Resources, Lasmo, Monument Oil and Gas, and Phillips Petroleum. Smith, a former executive at BG Group, had joined the board of Hurricane in December.

Trice resigned earlier this year after a setback for Hurricane’s Lancaster field west of Shetland. The firm suspended its guidance of 17,000 barrels of oil per day after discovering that flow from one of two wells there interfered with the other. It is thought the Lancaster field could hold more than 500 million barrels of oil.

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