{"id":570421,"date":"2023-04-19T09:08:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T03:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=570421"},"modified":"2023-04-19T09:29:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T03:59:25","slug":"essar-oil-appoints-corporate-governance-expert-tony-fountain-to-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/essar-oil-appoints-corporate-governance-expert-tony-fountain-to-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Essar Oil appoints corporate governance expert Tony Fountain to board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Essar Oil (UK) has appointed Tony Fountain, managing partner at Essar Energy Transition (EET), as a non-executive board director. <\/p>\n<p>Fountain\u2019s appointment, effective Monday, comes at a time as Essar works on its investment plan to become a low-carbon refinery. Tony\u2019s appointment will support EET\u2019s ambition to lead the UK\u2019s energy transition and invest $3.6 billion in developing low-carbon energy transition projects in the next five years. Of these investments, $2.4 billion will be at the Essar site in Ellesmere Port, between Liverpool and Manchester. <\/p>\n<p>Fountain started his career at BP and he later worked as the chief executive officer (CEO) of refining and marketing at Reliance Industries. This was followed by a period as the CEO of the UK Nuclear Decommissioning Authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essar Oil (UK) has appointed Tony Fountain, managing partner at Essar Energy Transition (EET), as a non-executive board director. Fountain\u2019s appointment, effective Monday, comes at a time as Essar works on its investment plan to become a low-carbon refinery. Tony\u2019s appointment will support EET\u2019s ambition to lead the UK\u2019s energy transition and invest $3.6 billion in developing low-carbon energy transition projects in the next five years. Of these investments, $2.4 billion will be at the Essar site in Ellesmere Port, between Liverpool and Manchester. Fountain started his career at BP and he later worked as the chief executive officer (CEO) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}