Richard Hall
Head of Major Projects
Engineering
Enquest PLC
United Kingdom
Biography
Richard Hall graduated from Leeds University with a BSc in Chemical Engineering and spent the first ten years of his career gaining experience with operating oil companies (Amoco, Hess and Murphy Petroleum) as a supervisor in offshore field operations, petroleum engineering, project management and execution, and commercial negotiations. Richard was one of four founders and operations director of the service company UWG Ltd (now known as Acteon Group) which won the Institute of Petroleum Platinum award in 2001. He formed and led a team which won the prestigious Queen’s Award for Export. He subsequently went on to join Petrofac as vice president of operations & developments and, in addition, became general manager in Malaysia. Before joining EnQuest, Richard was CEO and co-founder of Nio Petroleum which was acquired by EnQuest in 2012 with Richard joining the senior management team as Head of Major Projects. His primary responsibility is the delivery of the Kraken project.
Research Interest
He is interested in chemical engineering projects.
