Wesley E. Lohec
Vice President, Health, Environment and Safety
Wesley E. Lohec is vice president, Health, Environment and Safety for Chevron Corporation, a position he assumed in March 2011. He is responsible for leading Health, Environment and Safety strategic planning and issues management, compliance assurance, and emergency response. In addition, Chevron's Environmental Management Company, which manages environmental remediation and abandonment liabilities, reports to Lohec.
Previously, Lohec served as managing director of the Latin America strategic business unit for Chevron Africa and Latin America Exploration and Production Company in Caracas, Venezuela.
Lohec was born in Overton, Texas, in 1959. He graduated from Texas A&M University in 1981 with a bachelor's degree in petroleum engineering. Lohec joined Chevron in 1981 as a drilling engineer in New Orleans, La. Since then, he has held a broad range of assignments of increasing responsibility in drilling, production engineering, human resources, operations, asset management, business development, planning and corporate staff. He has worked at Chevron facilities in Angola, China, Latin America and the United States (California and Louisiana).
In 2001, he served as general manager of the Integration Management Office for the Chevron-Texaco merger. From 2002 to 2005, he served as manager of production operations, responsible for Chevron's Blocks 0, 2 and 14 production activities in Angola. From 2005 to 2008, Lohec was general manager of business development and planning for Chevron International Exploration and Production in San Ramon, Calif.
Lohec is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and is a registered professional engineer in the state of Texas.
Updated: March 2011