Franklin appointed to Amec Foster Wheeler board

Cuadrilla chairman Roy Franklin has been appointed to the board of Amec Foster Wheeler, the consultancy, engineering and project management company said on Friday.

Franklin is also currently chairman of Keller Group and deputy chairman of Statoil ASA and is a non-executive director of Santos Ltd.

He had previously served on the boards of OMV Group and Boart Longyear. Franklin had also spent 18 years at BP, most recently as head of mergers and acquisitions for BP Exploration.

He then moved to Clyde Petroleum where he was managing director, then to Paladin Resources as chief executive until its acquisition by Talisman Energy in 2005.

He has served on a number of international energy company boards in non-executive roles and will join the Amec Foster Wheeler board as a non-executive director on 1 January 2016.