Petrofac (PFCL) chairman Rodney Chase, ex-Corus chairman Jim Leng and former Enterprise Oil chairman Graham Hearne are expected to be asked to join the board of a new energy investment fund being set-up by Tony Hayward, the Sunday Times said Former BP Plc (BPL) (BPN) chief executive Hayward, who stepped down at BP over his handling of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year, is hoping to raise about 1 billion pounds ($164 billion) in a London float in the next six months Hayward is expected to team up with financier Nat Rothschild and Julian Metherell, who is to leave Goldman Sachs (GSN) as head of investment this summer [ID:nLDE7331OC] Three sources familiar with the matter confirmed the names of the fund's founders to Reuters, although Hayward last week denied the fund was being set up [ID:nLDE734248] Outgoing Petrofac (PFCL) chairman Chase is being lined up to chair the oil and gas investment fund, while Leng and Hearne have also been asked to join the board, the British newspaper reported
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