Oz APA Appoints New CEO

Australian gas infrastructure firm, APA Group, has appointed Rob Wheals, currently company’s executive transmission, as the next CEO and managing director, it announced May 13.

His appointment will take effect July 6. Wheals succeeds Mick McCormack who will step down from his role and retire from APA July 5.

APA is the largest gas transmission system owner in Australia, owning 15,000 km of pipelines representing 56% of Australia’s gas pipeline transmission system, including 74% of New South Wales and Victorian pipelines and 64% in the Northern Territory. It also supplies gas for part of all mainland capital cities’ consumption, gas-fired electricity generation assets and LNG exports.