London-listed Ophir Energy, operator of the challenging Fortuna liquefied natural gas project off Equatorial Guinea, installed a new chief executive late last week after incumbent Nick Cooper stepped down.
Ophir’s interim chief executive is board member Alan Booth, well-known in industry circles as the former head of EnCana’s UK North Sea business — which he built up on the back off the 800 million barrel Buzzard oil discovery — before it was sold to Nexen in 2005 for $2.1
