Rick Kennedy is the Managing Director, Chevron Nigeria Limited. He is responsible for Chevron’s upstream operations in Nigeria and West Africa. Prior to this role, he was the Director, Deepwater and Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs) for Chevron’s Nigeria Mid-Africa Business Unit. Before relocating to Nigeria, he was Senior Vice President (Operations)at Chevron, Saudi Arabia.

Mr. Kennedy joined Chevron in 1984 as a production engineer in Edmonton, Canada after graduating from Texas A&M University with a bachelor’s degree in Petroleum Engineering. He has since held numerous technical and leadership positions with increasing responsibility within Chevron’s Upstream and Midstream sectors and at Chevron’s Technical Center.

Over the course of his career in Chevron, he has worked in Canada, Indonesia, the United States, Saudi Arabia/Kuwait Partitioned Zone and Nigeria.