RusEnergy

14.12.2005 MosNews - Russian-British oil major TNK-BP said on Wednesday, Dec. 14, that it had hired a former Chevron executive to become its chief financial officer. James Martin Owen will become the company's new CFO in mid-January. The previous top financial executive Kent Potter retired in August this year. The statement said Owen has more than 30 years of experience in the oil industry and has spent much of his career working with U.S. major Chevron in financial roles around the world. "Most recently he held the position of general manager for finance and the role of board secretary at Tengizchevroil in Kazakhstan," the statement said, quoted by the Reuters agency. Tengiz, led by Chevron, is the largest of Kazakhstan's production ventures.