The top executive at Woodside Energy Group Ltd.’s $17.5 billion liquefied natural gas project in Louisiana departed this week, just over a year after she was hired, the Financial Post reported, citing a company memo seen by Bloomberg.
According to the Financial Post, Sarah Bairstow served as a senior vice president and president of Louisiana LNG in Calcasieu Parish—Woodside’s first LNG export project outside Australia and a key piece of the company’s goal to operate 5% of global production of the superchilled fuel in the 2030s. A company spokesperson declined to comment.
The departure marks the second major leadership shakeup at Woodside in under a year, the report noted, following former CEO Meg O’Neill’s exit.
Bairstow arrived at Woodside from Mexico Pacific Ltd., where she had been chief executive. Woodside greenlit the Louisiana project shortly before Bairstow joined in early May, according to the report, and while construction has started, most of the plant’s capacity has yet to find a long-term buyer.
