Patrick Erwin

Patrick Erwin is a former senior UK civil servant who was seconded from central government to become the commercial director of Ineos Upstream UK from 2014 until May 2016.

After his secondment ended Erwin continued to work with Ineos until December 2016. He left to join energy provider Northern Powergrid as its policy director.

Revolving door

At Ineos Erwin led on commercial strategy, developing partnerships and on asset purchase. According to his LinkedIn achievements, he 'led the economics and work programme parts of for INEOS’s application to the 14th Onshore Licensing Round': 'secured $1bn commitment from the Group Board; Secured three significant acquisition farm-in deals: PEDL 133 (from BG), PEDL 162 (from Reach CSG) and 250’000 net acres across three basins from IGas (£168m).

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*Speaker at the Global Shale Oil And Gas Summit 2015 Europe held in London July 2015.