Apache: John Christmann COO North America, Thomas Voytovich COO international
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Rod Eichler, president and chief operating officer, will be transitioning to the newly created roles of executive advisor to the chairman of Apache and as the chief executive officer of Kitimat (LNG and upstream), where he will focus on oversight of Apache's liquefied natural gas business, Gas Monetization, and corporate Health, Safety, Environment and Emergency Response (HSEE).
Mr. Eichler was appointed president and chief operating officer of Apache in February 2011. He served as president and co-chief operating officer — International, leading the North Sea, Egypt, Australia and Argentina regions since February 2009. An executive vice president since 2000, he headed Apache's Egyptian operations since 1997.
Prior to that, he was region vice president for the Western Region in Houston and region exploration and development manager for the Rocky Mountain Region in Denver.
Prior to joining Apache in 1993, Mr. Eichler was vice president, Exploration for Axem Resources. He was also associated with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Tenneco Oil Co.
Mr. Eichler received his bachelor's and master's degrees in geological engineering from the Colorado School of Mines. He is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists, a certified professional geologist, and a registered professional engineer in the state of Texas.
John Christmann, region vice president for the Permian, will assume the role of executive vice president and chief operating officer, North America.
Mr. Christmann has held the position of region vice president of the Permian Region since January 2010. He previously served as vice president, Business Development. Prior to that, he held various positions of increasing responsibility in the business development area and production management in the Gulf of Mexico Shelf region since joining Apache in 1997.
He was previously employed by ARCO/Vastar Resources, where he held positions in business development, crude oil marketing and various production, reservoir and operations engineering assignments.
Mr. Christmann received his bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and Master of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University. The Midland Chamber of Commerce elected Mr. Christmann to its Board of Directors in 2013. He also serves on the Executive Committee for the Petroleum Industry Advisory Board to the Texas Tech University Petroleum Engineering Department.
Thomas Voytovich, executive vice president for International Operations, is taking on the role of executive vice president and chief operating officer, International.
Mr. Voytovich has served as executive vice president, International Operations since February of this year. Prior to this position, he served as the region vice president and general manager of Apache Egypt since June 2009.
Mr. Voytovich was region vice president of the Central Region from 2006 to 2009 and exploration manager from 2004 until 2006. Prior to joining Apache in 1993, he worked in geological, engineering and management positions with Shell Oil Co., Petro-Lewis, Berexco, and Hillin-Simon Oil Co. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in geological engineering from Michigan Technological University and is an AAPG Certified Petroleum Geologist.
Mike Bahorich, executive vice president and chief technology officer, will take on additional responsibilities. He will maintain responsibility for exploration and production technology, and assume responsibility for Worldwide Projects, Horizontal Drilling and Completion Applications, Worldwide Drilling, Special Projects and Corporate Purchasing.
Mr. Bahorich currently holds the position of executive vice president and chief technology officer. He was previously executive vice president — Exploration and Production Technology, vice president — Exploration and Production Technology, vice president — Exploration Technology, and the company's chief geophysicist.
Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Bahorich was employed at Amoco Corporation. A graduate of the University of Missouri at Columbia, he received his master's degree in geophysics from Virginia Polytechnic Institute. He serves on advisory boards at Stanford and Yale universities.
Michael Bose, region vice president for Argentina, will transfer to Midland as the region vice president for the Permian Region.
Mr. Bose has held the position of region vice president and country manager — Argentina since May 2011. He served as development/exploitation manager in the Argentina Region from 2010 until being named region vice president.
Previously, he was region production manager of South Permian. Mr. Bose joined Apache in 2004 as a senior staff production engineer. During his career at Apache, he has held positions in production and operations in the Gulf Coast, Central and Permian regions.
Prior to joining Apache, he worked for Anadarko Petroleum Corp. for 12 years in various production, drilling, completions and reservoir engineering positions. He has a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering from Texas A&M University.
David Chi, manager of Argentina Production and Reservoir Engineering, will be interim region vice president for Argentina.
Mr. Chi is currently serving as manager of Region Production and Reservoir Engineering for Argentina. He joined Apache in 2007 as senior reservoir engineer, and in 2009 was named manager of Capital Systems.
Prior to joining Apache, he served in technical and leadership roles at Burlington Resources, El Paso Production Company, Schlumberger Integrated Projects and Conoco, Inc. He has a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering from Texas Tech University.
Rob Johnston will serve as executive vice president and region vice president for the Central Region.
Mr. Johnston has served as region vice president — Central since 2009. He held that position from 2002 to 2006 when he transferred to Argentina as the country's first region manager. Mr. Johnston joined Apache in 1982 as a geologist in the Mid-Continent Region before transferring to Cairo as development manager in 1996 and to Calgary as exploitation manager in 2000. He has a bachelor's degree in geology from the University of Tulsa. ■