Nigel Hearne joined Texaco in 1989 as a power engineer at the Pembroke Refinery in the United Kingdom. He progressed through refinery positions of increasing responsibility at Pembroke. In 2005, he moved to the El Segundo Refinery as a refinery business manager and in 2006, he assumed the role of operations manager.
In 2010, Mr Hearne was named vice president of Chevron’s Downstream Strategy, Technology & Commercial Integration business unit and in 2011, he became the general manager of the Richmond Refinery. Mr Hearne was the vice president of Chevron’s Appalachia/Michigan Strategic Business Unit from 2013 before being appointed managing director of Australia in April 2016, president of Asia Pacific Exploration & Production Company in March 2019, and president of EurAsia Pacific Exploration and Production Co in July 2020.
Mr Hearne graduated from the University of Sussex in 1989 with a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering, followed by a Masters in Engineering Management from the University of Glamorgan in 1998.
