Sir Richard Leon Paniguian (28 July 1949 – 25 June 2017) was a British oil industry executive with ties to British intelligence.
As described in an obituary for The Telegraph, Paniguian was a long-time troubleshooter and project manager for British Petroleum in some of its most challenging territories.He was also notable for his involvement in negotiating the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted in 2001 of organising the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.