• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Kevin Gallagher

Santos

Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director

Mr Gallagher joined Santos as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer on 1 February 2016, bringing more than 25 years’ international experience in the oil and gas industry. Since joining Santos, Mr Gallagher has led significant transformation and growth of the company, delivering a competitive advantage in the energy transition. Under his leadership, Santos is now Australia’s second-largest independent natural gas and liquids producer after implementing a focused strategy to build and grow around five core long-life, producing natural gas assets in Australia, Papua New Guinea and Timor-Leste. The strategy has included successful acquisitions of Quadrant Energy and ConocoPhillips’ Australia-West business, and a merger with Oil Search. Mr Gallagher has implemented a disciplined low-cost operating model and strengthened the balance sheet to support the company’s strategy, creating a strong cash-generative business that has delivered a series of record results. He has also positioned Santos to leverage the critical role natural gas will play in delivering energy security through the energy transition to net-zero emissions, with Santos making the world’s first booking of carbon storage reserves and taking a final investment decision on one of the world’s biggest CCS projects in South Australia’s Cooper Basin. Commencing his career in the oil and gas industry as a drilling engineer in Scotland working with Mobil in the North Sea, Mr Gallagher migrated to Australia to join Woodside in 1998. He was Chief Executive Officer at Clough Limited from 2011 until his appointment at Santos.

Sessions With Kevin Gallagher

Tuesday, 19 March

  • 02:20pm - 03:00pm (CST) / 19/mar/2024 07:20 pm - 19/mar/2024 08:00 pm

    Gas & LNG: Investing for the long-term
    Gas & LNG

    Among their many roles, natural gas and LNG offer security of supply during times of disruption, an economic resource for emerging economies and a lower-carbon alternative to higher-emitting fuels. The urgency to unlock this value and meet energy demand has created a robust and competitive global market. But projects often run into long lead times due to financing constraints, policy uncertainty, supply chain bottlenecks, labor shortages and other factors. Where are we in the LNG investment cycle? Is industry investing sufficiently in the long-term growth of LNG? What policies are needed to address industry constraints and support long-term supply?