Sound Oil appoints MD for Apennine Energy subsidiary
Sound Oil (LON:SOU), an upstream oil and gas company with assets in Italy and Indonesia, has appointed Luca Madeddu as managing director of its wholly-owned subsidiary Apennine Energy SRL and as a member of the executive management team of Sound Oil.
Madeddu has over 22 years of experience in the upstream oil and gas industry with Italian energy conglomerate ENI. He is a reservoir geologist by background and has extensive experience in hydrocarbon production, field development, petroleum engineering, supply chain management and reservoir engineering.
He has managed large teams in complex operations in sensitive onshore and offshore environments and has worked in Venezuela, Nigeria, Indonesia, UK, Congo and Italy.
Madeddu is aged 47 and holds a degree in geology from Milan University. He joined the company on January 2 and will be based in Italy.
Chairman and chief executive Gerry Orbell said: "His knowledge of the Italian assets, and of development and production operations, will be invaluable to complement the skills of the existing Apennine Energy team. He joins the company at a very appropriate time and we all, at Sound Oil, look forward to working alongside him to mature and expand our Italian portfolio."
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