LONDON (ShareCast) - Oil and gas exploration company Gulf Keystone said on Monday that it has appointed former Maersk Oil executive Jon Ferrier as its new chief executive officer, replacing John Gerstenlauer.
Ferrier will join Gulf Keystone as CEO following three decades spent in exploration, commercial, strategic and leadership positions in the oil and gas and mining industries. A geologist by training, Ferrier was most recently Senior Vice President Business Development, Strategy & Commercial at Maersk Oil in Copenhagen.

Interim non-executive chairman Andrew Simon said: "Jon Ferrier will bring considerable experience to the head of the Gulf Keystone executive team, and to the Board. We are confident that a combination of his international operational expertise and strategic track record, will serve the Company well."

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