Mike Burdon joins AfLNG as Commercial Director

Gasol plc, whose strategic objective is to become the premier independent liquefied natural gas (LNG) company creating value by connecting LNG produced in West and Central Africa to high-value growth markets in the US and Europe, is pleased to note the appointment of Mike Burdon as Commercial Director of African LNG (AfLNG), the LNG project company in which Gasol has a 20 per cent shareholding and an option to acquire the remaining 80 per cent.

Mike Burdon, an energy sector expert with more than 20 years' international experience in commercial, business development and technical roles, has an impressive track record in LNG, most recently heading up the London LNG practice at Poten & Partners (UK) Ltd, the energy consultant and ship broker. Key assignments at Poten & Partners have included LNG sales transactions from West Africa and the development of upstream energy strategies and regasification terminals.

Mike Burdon, who began working at AfLNG this week, has previously been employed by oil and gas majors including Phillips Petroleum, Conoco, Hamilton Brothers Oil Corporation and British Gas. Between 2000 and 2006, he worked as an independent consultant to the oil and gas industry, where his assignments included LNG terminal development and the development of a European LNG strategy for a US independent.