LARRY E. ARCHIBALD

Senior Vice President,
Exploration and Business Development

Larry E. Archibald is senior vice president of Exploration and Business Development for ConocoPhillips. A geologist, Archibald has nearly 30 years of technical and executive leadership experience in the oil and natural gas industry.

Archibald joined ConocoPhillips in Houston in 2008 as vice president of Exploration.  In 2009, he became a member of the company’s management committee as senior vice president of Exploration and Business Development.

Previously, Archibald was vice president of Russia offshore exploration for BP.  Between 1999 and 2006, his other exploration management roles with BP included leadership of programs covering the Gulf of Mexico deepwater, Gulf of Mexico Shelf, Norway, Angola, and worldwide new ventures.  In addition,  Archibald held positions in corporate and exploration planning in BP and in Amoco.

He started his career as a geologist with Amoco in Denver in 1982 where he worked many of the Rocky Mountain basins as well as Alaska’s North Slope. During the 1990s, he worked for Amoco in Houston on a number of international exploration programs.

Archibald serves as a ConocoPhillips executive sponsor at The University of Texas and serves on The University of Texas/Jackson School Advisory Board. He is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Archibald earned a bachelor’s degree in geology from Colgate University in 1979, a master’s degree in geosciences from the University of Arizona in 1982 and an MBA from Regis College in 1986.