Sir Frank Joseph Chapman (born 17 June 1953) is a British businessman who was Chief Executive of
BG Group
BG Group plc was a British multinational oil and gas company headquartered in Reading, United Kingdom. On 8 April 2015, Royal Dutch Shell announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire BG Group for $70 billion, subject to regulatory and ...
, the
oil and gas exploration
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Exploration methods
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company.
Early life
Chapman grew up in
Custom House, Newham
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The area is named after the custom house of Royal Victoria Dock. Today the dock is used for recreation but, in the past, it dominated the industry and commerce o ...
. His father was a truck driver. He attended East Ham Technical College (now called
Newham College of Further Education
Newham College is a large general further education college in the London Borough of Newham, England, established in 1985. The college's main site is in East Ham, with a further site in Stratford and six further local neighbourhood learning cen ...
), in
East Ham
East Ham is a district of the London Borough of Newham, England, 8 miles (12.8 km) east of Charing Cross. East Ham is identified in the London Plan as a Major Centre. The population is 76,186.
It was originally part of the Becontree Hun ...
, where he obtained an
OND in 1971 and later an
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* Haneda Airport, serving Tokyo, Japan
* Hanborough railway station, in England
* Henderson Executive Airport, in Nevada, United States
* Hinterland Aviation, an Australian airline
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whilst working for a local company, Matthew Hawke. From
Queen Mary College
Queen Mary University of London (QMUL, or informally QM, and previously Queen Mary and Westfield College) is a public university, public research university in Mile End, East London, England. It is a member institution of the federal University of ...
, also in east London, he obtained a
BSc
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The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University of ...
in Mechanical Engineering in 1974.
Career
He worked for
BP from 1974 to 1978 initially at their research centre at
Sunbury-on-Thames
Sunbury-on-Thames (or commonly Sunbury) is a suburban town on the north bank of the River Thames in the Borough of Spelthorne, Surrey, centred southwest of central London. Historically part of the county of Middlesex, in 1965 Sunbury and other ...
, then
Shell
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* Shell (structure), a thin structure
** Concrete shell, a thin shell of concrete, usually with no interior columns or exterior buttresses
** Thin-shell structure
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* Seashell, a hard ou ...
from 1978 to 1996. He joined British Gas as managing director of Exploration and Production on 11 November 1996, which became BG International on 17 February 1997. In October 2000, he became Chief Executive of BG Group when
Transco was de-merged from BG International on 23 October 2000.
Chapman's remuneration from BG Group in 2008 consisted of £1,081,588 base salary and a £1,944,000 bonus.
Chapman was
knighted
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in the
2011 Birthday Honours
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He was elected to Parliament in 2005. In the Fifth National Government, from 2008 to 2017, he was Attorney-Ge ...]
. Chapman continued as an advisor to BG Group until he retired in June 2013.
In July 2020, Chapman joined th
boardof Zap Energy, a Seattle-based company developing a compact fusion reactor without the use of magnetic coils.
References
External life
BG Group''Sunday Times'' April 2009QMUL Alumni Magazine 2006 (PDF)
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1953 births
Living people
British chief executives in the energy industry
Fellows of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Alumni of Queen Mary University of London
English chief executives
People from East Ham
Knights Bachelor