Petrofac chairman to step down

Petrofac, the international oil and gas facilities service provider, announced that Rijnhard van Tets will step down from his role as chairman of the board after eleven years with the company.

He will step down at Petrofac’s annual meeting in May and will be succeeded by current senior independent director René Médori.

Mr van Tets joined the Ptetrofac’s board in 2007, serving as a non-executive director prior to being appointed chairman in 2014.

Médori, who joined as a non-executive director in 2012, has recently relinquished his executive role as finance director of Anglo American plc.

In a separate statement, Petrofac also announced that it has appointed Sara Akbar as a non-executive director with effect from January 1.

Akbar has more than 30 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry. She is founder of and until recently the chief executive officer of Kuwait Energy KSC.