Greater Perth Area
50 years petroleum/mining project generation, E&P & management in Australia, PNG, SE Asia, Africa. Special interest in the New Hydrogen Economy, gold hydrogen and helium. SUMMARY Tech. Exec. Director Georgina Energy Plc, (LSE: "GEX"), SPE PMRS 2U Resources of 275 BCF gold hydrogen, 266 BCF helium and 2.66 TCF natural gas. Promoting a major subsalt H2, He, natural gas project in the WA Amadeus Basin with Viridian Energie. Exec Chair ECOSSAUS LTD, advancing high value salt production and salt cavern storage for on-demand energy including hydrogen. • MD Central Petroleum Limited, 15 yrs, 70 million acres, founding MD for 5 years of Tulloch Resources Limited, operating 2,000 km2 in the Yilgarn of WA; founding Director Labrador- Petro Management, founding Chair Gryphon Melanesia, founding Vice-Chair PetroAfrique. • Raised $150 Mn in equity and convertible bonds -close to $0.75 billion contingent farmout deals for Central, Tulloch Resources and others. For PetroAfrique, jointly assembled a consortium of African Finance Corp, Trafigura, Sacoil, Glencore Vitol and KDB Daiwoo, PetroAfrique et al to make a fully funded 2016 US$600 million bid for up to 50% of the POGBV/Helios offshore assets in OMLs 127 & 130 inclusive of the Agbami, Akpo and Egina fields. • Management, JV negotiation skills, strong technical background in the upstream oil, gas, mining, aviation and agribusiness sectors- • A capable leader with the ability to motivate diverse groups. • Excellent interpersonal and written communications skills. • Highly adaptable, resourceful, innovative with creative lateral thinking. JOINT VENTURE NEGOTIATION • Total and Santos $300 million of farmouts for Central Petroleum • Established a $6 million joint venture with BHP Minerals over the Cundeelee PGE and base metals prospect area. • Established an up to c.$250 million farmout to PXA, later the BG Group. • Established an up to c.$100 million farmout to ROG. • Established an up to c.$10 million farmout to OGE Limited.. • Established a $1 million farmout to Mt. Isa Mines over the Plumridge PGE project area. • Established a $3.5 million farmout to Mt. Kersey Mining over the Mulgabbie Dome gold project. • Established a $0.5 million farmout to Camelot Gold over the Mt. Gibson gold exploration area. • Established a joint venture over the Winchester County Project for irrigated forestry over 70,000 ha. • Established an $11 million joint venture with Victoria Petroleum in the Cooper Basin. • Established and managed exploration initiatives over 4 frontier basins in central Australia.
Co-founder of ECOSSAUS LTD, first mover advantage in planned major solution mining & production of high grade MVR salt (99.5%+)export and salt cavern eco-storage solutions for on demand energy reserves-hydrogen, natural gas, Strategic Petroleum Reserves, compressed air (CAES). Major acreage position 8,000 km2 of salt domes including 4,000 km2 of thick highly porous well sealed sandstone unit on the doorstep of SA industry-calculated upside storage volume of 20 Bn m3/ 10 km2 of area-CCS et al storage potential.
Major lateritic cobalt/nickel resource development.
Prospect generation and general technical management of very large subsalt gas/helium/hydrogen prospects (2U net attributal of 303 BCFG helium, 308 BCFG hydrogen, 3 TCFG natural gas) in central Australian Neo-protoerozoic defined prospects.
Responsible for driving the corporate goals of the companies towards project acquisition& capital raising. AfroHawk is reviewing major energy opportunities in West Africa. Gryphon was focused on mineral exploration in PNG.
Concept development and corporate governance of a planned resources based ICO.