lse genl industry oil and gas industry predecessor genel enerji vallares founded 2011 2011 headquarters ankara turkey area served iraqi kurdistan key people tony hayward ceo mehmet sepil president website www.genelenergy.com genel energy plc is an oil company with a registered office in jersey and field office in turkey . it has its exploration and production operations in iraqi kurdistan with plans to expand its activities into other middle east and north african countries . 1 the company owns rights in six production sharing contracts including interests in the taq taq tawke and chia surkh fields . 2 genel energy was created in 2011 as a result of the reverse acquisition of turkish genel enerji by tony hayward led investment company vallares . 1 vallares was set up by tony hayward financier nat rothschild and banker julian metherell . 1 genel enerji was controlled by mehmet emin karamehmet through ukurova group 56 % and mehmet sepil s family 44 % . in 2009 genel enerji planned merger with heritage oil ; however the deal subsequently collapsed . 3 tony hayward is ceo of genel energy while former ceo of genel enerji mehmet sepil became president of the company . 4 the board includes former deputy chief executive of bp and chairman of petrofac rodney chase . 3 the company is listed at the london stock exchange . 50 % of genel energy is owned by investors of former vallares which has merged with genel energy . 4 references edit a b c genel energy eyes mideast push . upstream online . nhst media group . 2011 09 08 . subscription required . retrieved 2011 09 10 . marshall steve 2011 12 21 . genel in talks for kurdistan field stake . upstream online . nhst media group . subscription required . retrieved 2011 12 21 . a b vallares poised to buy genel enerji . upstream online . nhst media group . 2011 09 06 . subscription required . retrieved 2011 09 10 . a b vallares confirms merger with genel deal reinstates hayward s leadership . oilvoice . 2011 09 08 . retrieved 2011 09 10 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title genel energy & oldid 740676467 categories oil and gas companies of the united kingdomoil and gas companies of turkeyeconomy of iraqi kurdistanhidden categories pages containing links to subscription only content navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 22 september 2016 at 15 29 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view