BASF said on Friday its oil and gas subsidiary Wintershall will be headed by Mario Mehren after incumbent Rainer Seele was named chief executive of Austria's OMV.
Mehren, who currently is Wintershall's head of Exploration & Production Russia, North Africa and South America, will take his position as of July 1, BASF said in a statement.
(Reporting by Harro ten Wolde; Editing by Victoria Bryan)