CH2M Hires Former Jacobs Exec Chip Mitchell as President of Oil, Gas and Chemicals Group
Earl “Chip” Mitchell has joined CH2M as president of its 5,000-person oil, gas & chemicals business group (OGC), based in Houston. He had been group vice president for the upstream, midstream and pipeline business at Jacobs Engineering Group, and also had headed its OGC market sector in Canada.
CH2M CEO Jacque Hinman said the firm’s OGC markets “are poised for substantial growth over the next several years.” But earlier this year, the firm reversed a planned sale of its OGC business in Alaska and far western Russia, with officials noting that offers did not meet the firm’s anticipated price in the wake of the oil price plunge, according to on line reports in Alaska.