B.P. (Bart) Cahir, president and general manager of ExxonMobil Qatar, will leave his position at the company to join Canada’s Imperial Oil as its new senior vice president, upstream.
The appointment will come into effect on 1st of January as Alistair Routledge takes on Cahir’s role as president and GM of ExxonMobil Qatar.
In Imperial Oil. Cahir will succeed T.G. (Glenn) Scott, who will move to the American based XTO Energy company as vice president, advisory and support team and international ventures.
Cahir joined ExxonMobil as a subsurface engineer in 1994 and moved to its headquarters as a planning and business analyst for the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions in 2004.
He moved to Qatar in 2010 to become vice president and joint interest manager as well as general manager for the Al Khaleej gas project.
Cahir was appointed president and general manager in 2012, where he was responsible for all ExxonMobil’s activities in Qatar with Qatar Petroleum and Qatar Petroleum International and ExxonMobil joint ventures abroad.
Cahir holds a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering from Penn State University.
