The new President and CEO at Primexx Energy Partners Ltd. in Texas is M. Chris Doyle, a former executive vice president in charge of operations at Oklahoma City’s Chesapeake Energy Corporation.
He succeeded Tom Fagadau who will continue to serve as a non-executive chairman for the company that has operations in the Southern Delaware Basin in the Permian. Doyle had previously been with Olympus Energy LLC where he was president and CEO.
Olympus is a privately held energy company specializing in upstream and midstream development in the Appalachian Basin, the same basin where Doyle devoted his efforts while with Chesapeake Energy. While at Chesapeake, Doyle also led the company’s marketing, midstream, supply chain and centralized operations and technical support.
Doyle also spent 18 years at Anadarko Petroleum before joining Chesapeake in various leadership roles, which included assets in the Permian, Eagle Ford, Haynesville and Appalachia basins.
Primexx Energy Partners currently operates 40,000 acres in the Southern Delaware Basin and produces 22,000 boe/d, the company release said.