NGE: Trans Adriatic Pipeline Appoints New Managing Director

The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) has appointed BG executive Ian Bradshaw as new Managing Director to replace departing Kjetil Tungland.

Bradshaw, who will take up his new position on Feb. 1, oversaw BG's global projects portfolio, such as the recently opened $20.4 billion Queensland Curtis LNG project.

Tungland will return to Norwegian oil producer Statoil after heading the pipeline project for four and a half years on secondment which saw the Shah Deniz consortium chose the TAP project as its preferred route of the four contesting parties, to bring gas from Azerbaijan to Europe via the Southern Corridor.