Aurora Oil & Gas Ltd. appointed Douglas E. Brooks as CEO of the Aurora Group, effective Oct. 18. He will be based in Aurora’s Houston office.  

Jonathan Stewart, currently executive chairman and CEO, will remain the company’s executive chairman.

During a 30-year career in the oil and gas industry, Brooks has held a number of senior executive positions, and was most recently the senior vice president of business development at Forest Oil Corp.  He spent 24 years with Marathon Oil Corp. In 2006, Brooks was appointed president and CEO of Compass Resources Corp., where he was responsible for development and subsequent divestiture of portfolio resource projects in Texas and Wyoming.