Oil major Chevron said the current vice president of the company’s Appalachia business will be moving to become deputy managing director of its Australian unit.
Nigel Hearne previously took over his current role from Bruce Niemeyer, who had been head of Chevron Appalachia when it acquired Atlas Energy’s natural gas assets.
A spokesman for Chevron said a replacement for Hearne would be announced in due course.
Earlier this week Chevron said it will not extend its contract to operate the East Kalimantan oil and gas block in Indonesia.
It comes after the company last month revealed plans to sell its stake in another oil and gas block in the country, the South Natuna Sea Block B.