CAIRO, July 26 (Reuters) - BG Egypt, a subsidiary of BGGroup and one of Egypt's largest natural gas producers,has appointed Khaled Kacem as its president, the company said ina statement on Sunday.
The firm said Kacem had spent 23 years in the upstream anddownstream oil and gas sector and was previously general managerfor Rashid Petroleum Company (Rashpetco), a joint ventureconducting operations for BG Egypt and its partners PETRONAS andEdison, the statement said.
Khaled succeeds former BG Egypt President Arshad Sufi, whocontinues to be part of BG Group's team in Egypt as companychairman, the statement said.
Royal Dutch Shell agreed to buy smaller rival BGGroup for $70 billion in the first large oil merger in more thana decade in April, giving the Anglo-Dutch company access to BG'smulti-billion dollar projects in Brazil, East Africa, Australia,Kazakhstan and Egypt.
(Reporting by Eric Knecht, editing by David Evans)