Richard (Rick) Tallant, Executive Vice-President of GTL for Shell and Managing Director of Shell Qatar Companies
Doha: Qatar Shell has announced the appointment of Richard (Rick) Tallant as Executive Vice-President of GTL for Shell and Managing Director of Shell Qatar Companies with effect from August 1, 2021.
In his new role, Tallant will be responsible for Shell’s global gas-to-liquids (GTL) portfolio and will succeed Andrew Faulkner as Managing Director and Country Chair of Qatar Shell. Faulkner will leave the company after 39 years of distinguished service.
Tallant is an American citizen and currently a Shell Vice-President of production for Deepwater projects. He joined Shell in 2003 and has held a variety of technical, operational and leadership roles across the Upstream business in the United States and in the Shell headquarters in the Netherlands. Tallant has a bachelor’s degree in both Petroleum Engineering and Economics from the University of Tulsa. He is married to Leslie and they have three children.
