The Independent: Aidan Heavey: Out of Africa – Ireland’s oil baron has come a long way from County Kildare
“it is clear that the scandal has highlighted accounting risk in the oil industry, and discrepancies between different companies’ accounting methods”
The Tullow boss was ‘a crap accountant’, he tells Tim Webb. But after pulling off two audacious deals, he has found his forte as an oilman
Posted 9 August 2004
Aidan Heavey admits that, as an Irish oilman travelling in places such as Gambia, he attracts his fair share of attention from the locals. “It can be a surprise,” the chief executive of the fast-growing Dublin- and London-listed Tullow Oil says. In an industry dominated by engineers and geologists, there also aren’t many former accountants who run oil companies.
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