Australia's Clough Limited says that Peter Bennett has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Murray & Roberts Oil & Gas business platform and of Clough Limited with effect Feb. 1 and will also join the Murray & Roberts Limited board. He succeeds Kevin Gallagher, who was appointed CEO of Santos Limited in November 2015.

Henry Laas, Group Chief Executive, Murray & Roberts comments: “Peter is an experienced oil and gas executive and joins the Group after 26 years with CB&I, a leading global engineering, procurement and construction company, focused on energy infrastructure. Peter will play an important role in the pursuit of our strategic future defined as Engineered Excellence and our vision of being a leading international diversified project engineering, procurement and construction Group by 2020.”

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