Stacy Feltham

FeaturesA Well of Offshore ExperienceMay 20, 2019Stacy Feltham’s years of international deepwater expertise in the oil industry have made her uniquely qualified to guide BHP’s entry into new markets, including a big new field in Mexico Fifteen years after taking her first industry role as the sole counsel for ExxonMobil’s Hibernia Project, Feltham has amassed a wealth of expertise through projects she has supported that have taken her from Europe to Kazakhstan to Alaska, Africa, and many places in between. Her most recent work has been for Australian resources companyBHP, which she joined in 2013 and where today she serves as associate general counsel and head of legal for BHP Petroleum, based in Houston. Herinternational teamincludes lawyers in Australia, Mexico, and the US, and it supports operations and assets in eight countries. “I had the opportunity to step in and manage a team at a diverse multinational company, where my deepwater petroleum background would be an asset,” Feltham says. “Since then, I haven’t looked back.” Fortunately, Feltham’s many years spent working with similar agreements gave her an edge. “Having experience in that area, I could identify investment terms that would be workable for international oil companies and, in those terms, what would be the upside for my company and the country,” Feltham says. “And we were able to receive terms that we were comfortable with.”