John D. Gass
Corporate Vice President and President, Chevron Global Gas
John D. Gass is vice president of Chevron Corporation and president of Chevron Global Gas (CGG). CGG plays a key role in commercializing Chevron's natural gas resources and supporting the development of new growth opportunities worldwide. Gass also oversees Chevron's shipping, pipeline and power operations.
A native of Key Biscayne, Florida, Gass graduated in 1974 from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering. He later earned a master's degree in civil engineering from Tulane University, in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1980.
Gass joined Chevron U.S.A. in 1974 as a design engineer in New Orleans, Louisiana. Over the years, he held positions of increasing responsibility in engineering, operations and management in Louisiana and California. In 1988, he was named operations manager for Amoseas Indonesia Inc. based in Jakarta, Indonesia. In 1991, Gass was named project manager for Chevron's Alba Field development, a major North Sea development in the United Kingdom. In 1994, he returned to New Orleans to become manager of the Bay Marchand Profit Center in the Gulf of Mexico for Chevron U.S.A. Production Co.
In April 1996, Gass was named managing director of Chevron Australia Pty. Ltd., headquartered in Perth, Australia, with responsibility for Chevron's oil and gas interests in Australia and Papua New Guinea, including its interests in the North West Shelf liquefied natural gas project. In April 2001, he was named managing director of Chevron's Southern Africa strategic business unit based in Luanda, Angola. In this capacity, he was responsible for the company's oil and gas exploration and production activities in Angola, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Namibia. He was also responsible for development of the Angola LNG project with partner Sonangol, the state-owned oil company of Angola.
Gass assumed his present position in July 2003.
Gass serves on the Committee of Visitors for the Vanderbilt School of Engineering and is on the Advisory Board for the Vanderbilt Eye Institute. He is a member of the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
Gass was born in 1952.
Updated: July 2009