John W. Harkins

John Harkins is a chemical engineer and an independent businessman with over 30 years of diverse international energy experience. He is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of Greenfields Petroleum Corporation (TSXV: GNF), an independent exploration and production company with assets in Azerbaijan. Previously, he acted as head of business development in Asia for Anadarko from 2001 to 2008, in which capacity John was able to expand Anadarko’s exploration positions in Asia. As a senior executive for TransCanada Pipelines Ltd. in the mid 1990’s, he established a significant and successful midstream business in Latin America.

He played a prominent role in the establishment of some of the first private gas pipelines and a power project in Mexico, a liquids extraction facility in Venezuela and major oil and gas pipelines in Colombia. John has been involved in successfully closing structured financing for energy projects with banks, multilaterals and other financial institutions.