Ex-BP man Inglis joins Petrofac

Oil fabrications giant Petrofac has confirmed the appointment of Andy Inglis, the former head of BP's exploration and production and who was in charge of safety at the time of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.Inglis will head up Petrofac's Energy Developments and Production Solutions businesses. He will also join the board of Petrofac in March.Inglis left BP in September after a management shake-up by new chief executive Bob Dudley. As head of exploration and production division he was responsible for the safety of offshore oil drilling at the time of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. He also ran the clean-up operation following the huge oil spill. He had joined BP in 1980.Petrofac's chief executive Ayman Asfari said: "I am delighted to welcome Andy to Petrofac. Andy is a proven business leader who has a strong technical background and 30 years of global industry experience, a number of which have been spent in Petrofac's core geographies in North Africa, the Middle East, the Caspian and Asia."