L1 Energy is an oil and gas investment company controlled by the Russian billionaire

Mikhail Fridman Mikhail Maratovich Fridman (also transliterated Mikhail Friedman; russian: Михаил Маратович Фридман; he, מיכאיל פרידמן; born 21 April 1964) is a Ukrainian-born, Russian–Israeli businessman, billionaire, and ...

, through

Alfa Group Alfa Group Consortium () is Russian international privately owned investment groups, with interests in oil and gas, commercial and investment banking, asset management, insurance, retail trade, telecommunications, water utilities and special sit ...

, and chaired by Lord Browne. On 2 March 2015, it was announced that Lord Browne was the executive chairman, and would be renouncing his other roles to build a major new oil and gas company from scratch. L1 Energy will run DEA AG, the purchase of which was announced in March 2014 that DEA for €5.1 billion. L1 Energy will seek to build a global oil and gas company through the acquisition of platforms in Europe, North America and South East Asia.

Advisory board

As of August 2017: * Lord Browne, former CEO of BP *

Tony Hayward Anthony Bryan Hayward (born 21 May 1957) is a British businessman and former chief executive of oil and energy company BP. He replaced John Browne, Baron Browne of Madingley, on 1 May 2007. His tenure ended on 1 October 2010 when he was replac ...

, chairman of Glencore * Stan Polovets * Andrew Gould, former chairman 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 ...

Charles Goodyear Charles Goodyear (December 29, 1800 – July 1, 1860) was an American self-taught chemist and manufacturing engineer who developed vulcanized rubber, for which he received patent number 3633 from the United States Patent Office on June 15, 1844. ...

, former CEO,

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Scott D. Sheffield Scott Douglas Sheffield (born 1952/53) is an American businessman and president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Pioneer Natural Resources Company. Early life Sheffield received a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering from the Universi ...

, executive chairman and former CEO of

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