The Cabinet of Ministers at a meeting on Friday appointed Oleg Tolmachov as acting director general of Ukrhazvydobuvannya instead of Alexander Romaniuk and Roman Malyutin as acting director general of Ukrtranshaz instead of Serhiy Pereloma.
This was reported by the Naftogaz group on Friday evening.
“Roman Malyutin and Oleg Tolmachev are high-class specialists with considerable experience in the oil and gas sector. They are well acquainted with global experience, but have also worked hard in Ukraine and understand the challenges we are currently facing,” said Naftogaz Group head Alexey Chernyshov.
Oleg Tolmachev, who headed Naftogaz Group’s Naftogaz Upstream division, became Ukrhazvydobuvannya’s acting director.
Oleg Tolmachev has more than 20 years of experience in hydrocarbon production in North America. He has held senior positions in gas production companies in the US such as BP America, Chesapeake Energy, EnCana Oil & Gas USA, Eclipse Resources and Montage Resources. In particular, he led high-tech projects to develop large gas and gas condensate fields in North America. Among his responsibilities were increasing the economic efficiency of projects, formation and management of multifunctional teams (geology, development, drilling, production, preparation and processing of hydrocarbons).
Roman Malyutin, who has over 20 years of experience at gas transmission and storage companies, was appointed Acting Head of Ukrtransgas JSC, the operator of all Ukrainian underground gas storages.
Roman Malyutin went all the way from an operator and engineer at Kegichevsk UGS to Deputy Chief Engineer of the eastern region of the Ukrainian Gas Transmission System Operator. For the last year and a half he headed the technical department of Ukrtransgas JSC, where he was responsible for the operation of compressor stations, areas of energy and metrology, and also accompanied projects to develop low-carbon technologies and storage of hydrogen mixtures.
