Anadarko Petroleum Corp. has promoted its top executive in Colorado, Brad Holly, to executive vice president of U.S. onshore exploration and production.
Holly, who came to Denver in May 2013 to run the company’s Rocky Mountain region, will relocate to the company’s headquarters at The Woodlands, a suburb of Houston.
The succession plans has been in the works for a “long time” and is not connected to a home explosion in Firestone last month that , said spokesman John Christiansen.
Following that explosion, which killed two men, . The .
Before coming to Denver, Holly was in charge of operations in Anadarko’s southern and Appalachia region. Last summer, Anadarko combined its onshore regions under one management umbrella, and put Holly, who remained in Denver, in charge.
Craig Walters will continue to manage the company’s operations in the Denver-Julesburg Basin, which is seeing
Holly worked on state task forces to develop new methane regulations and local control guidelines and is also a past chairman of the Colorado Oil & Gas Association.
