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IFP Appointment: Éric Lafargue has been appointed Director of the Industrial Development Business Unit

18 November 2009

Éric Lafargue has been appointed Director of the Industrial Development Business Unit. He replaces Dominique Henri, who has moved into a different role within the IFP Group.

Éric Lafargue, 50, is a graduate of ENSG Nancy (The Nancy School of Geology, France) and IFP School. He began his career in 1986 in IFP’s Geology-Geochemistry Division where he led various R&D projects relating to oil formation and its accumulation in fields. In 1996, as Rock-Eval project manager, he played an active role in the industrial development of this IFP technology to characterize oil source rocks. The technology is now the benchmark in the field and is widely used throughout the world.
In 1998 he joined the French Ministry of Industry (Oil and Gas Department) where he was specifically responsible for monitoring companies in the French oil-related sector. He also managed the French Oil and Gas Sector Support Fund.
In 2002, he joined IFP’s Industrial Development Business Unit, the entity in charge of managing IFP’s portfolio of subsidiaries and stakeholdings. He was made Deputy Director in 2007.