A senior vice president for BG Group will take over as managing director of the Trans Adriatic Pipeline.
Ian Bradshaw will take up his new role in February after working for the BG Group since 2005.
Mr Bradshaw has worked with the company in various senior executive positions.
Andy Lane, Chairman of TAP’s board of directors said: “I am delighted that we have hired Ian to lead the TAP project into its next and important phase as we prepare for pipeline construction, beginning in 2016.
“Ian has a wealth of oil and gas project experience that will be a great asset in taking the project forward to completion.”
The decade-long Trans Adriatic Pipeline project – led by BP, Statoil and Azeri firm SOCAR – anticipates production coming from one of the world’s largest gas fields by 2019.
The Trans Adriatic Pipeline will deliver 10billion cubic metres from the field per year, collecting it in Turkey and routing it through Greece and Albania to southern Italy.