Mark McAllister
Mark McAllister has been Chairman of The Decommissioning Company since its foundation in 2011. A Petroleum Engineer by training, he began working in the oil industry in 1979 with Conoco. Mark has held senior management positions in some of the most successful UK independents, including Monument Exploration (Director of Operations) and LASMO (Managing Director, Europe & North Africa). Since 2001, he has founded two UK independents which have played significant roles in the rationalisation of the mature North Sea and pioneered a new marine heavy-lift technology aimed at the growing decommissioning market. In 2009, Mark was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Technology from Robert Gordon’s University in recognition of services to the oil industry.