He will replace Jim Bowles as president of Conoco Phillips Alaska Inc. Bowles died in an avalanche while snowmachining on the Kenai Peninsula last month.
Johansen, a native of Norway, joined Conoco in 1986 in Stavanger, Norway, and worked in petroleum engineering, project engineering and operations leadership positions there; in Aberdeen, United Kingdom; New Orleans; Houston and Jakarta, Indonesia.
Johansen has master's degrees in petroleum engineering from the Norwegian Institute of Technology and in business administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Conoco is a major U.S. oil company and the largest oil and gas producer in Alaska. It has major holdings in the North Slope and Cook Inlet regions.
After Bowles died, Conoco named Helene Harding, its vice president for North Slope operations and development, as interim head of the Alaska business.
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