MEO Australia
energy for the future
Jürgen Hendrich, B.Sc. (Hons)(Geology), PDM, Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer
Jürgen was appointed Chief Executive Officer of MEO in June 2008 and subsequently appointed to the Board as Managing Director in July 2008.
After graduating from the University of Melbourne in 1984 with a Bachelor of Science degree with honours, majoring in Geology, Jürgen began his professional career as a Petroleum Geologist with Esso Australia (wholly owned by ExxonMobil). In a career spanning nearly 12 years, Jürgen progressed from technical roles to commercial roles including strategic planning, business analysis and Joint Venture relations.
In 1996 he commenced his investment banking career with JB Were (now Goldman Sachs JB Were) where he became a top ranking Energy Analyst prior to moving into funds management and subsequently founded his own consulting practice specialising in advising emerging companies. In 2004 Jürgen joined Australian broking firm Tolhurst where he headed resources research. For the two years prior to joining MEO he was Director, Corporate Finance at Tolhurst.
Ken Hendrick, B.E. (Civil), M.Eng. Sc., M.B.A., Implementation Manager
Ken Hendrick is a Senior Project Manager with extensive experience in the safe execution of complex multi-discipline developments for the resources sector, particularly in the offshore oil and gas industry. Projects have varied from 'brownfield' upgrades to major 'greenfield' new builds, generally in the Australian and South East Asian region. He has maintained a ‘hands on’ personal participation in all facets of project execution. Responsibilities have covered design through procurement to construction, project commissioning and contract administration/litigation closure in E / E&P / EPCM / EPC environments.
Ken has undertaken a diverse number of senior project roles ranging from client representative in an office or site situation; to active management of a 250 person multi-discipline consulting practice and to sponsorship/management of multi-million dollar CAPEX projects. As the Company's Implementation Manager, he is responsible for both the design and project implementation strategies, which embrace conceptual evaluation, budget preparation; contracting plans; construction and the operational support phases.
David Maughan, B.Sc. (Hons) (Geology/Geophysics), Exploration Manager
David Maughan is an Exploration Geophysicist with world-wide experience in exploration, development and production. He worked for and consulted to ExxonMobil for 35 years, with over 20 years expatriate service in North and South America, Asia and Europe. He spent 25½ years in management in a variety of line, operational, staff and technical functions. He is responsible for managing MEO Australia’s G&G team and all aspects thereof in relation to existing projects and potential new ventures.
Colin Naylor, FCPA, B.Bus (Acc.), Chief Financial Officer & Company Secretary
Colin has 30 years financial experience in the resource sector, the majority of these years spent in the upstream industry with Woodside Petroleum Ltd and BHP Petroleum. His responsibilities include accounting, taxation, compliance, treasury, company secretarial as well as involvement in the many commercial activities of the Company.
Robert Gard, B Eng (Hons) (Mechanical/Electrical), Commercial Manager
Robert Gard is an Honours graduate in Mechanical and Electrical Engineering. With 22½ years experience at ExxonMobil, he has over 9 years gas related commercial negotiation experience on PNG, Cooper Basin, Gippsland and WA agreements. His career experience also includes corporate affairs and planning, sub-surface engineering and various other engineering and project management roles. At MEO Australia, he is responsible for managing existing JV relationships and agreements and he heads negotiations and analysis for existing and new business ventures.
Robert Zammit, B. Economics, Executive Manager Business Development
Robert Zammit has over 25 years international experience in the oil and gas industry. Over his career with ExxonMobil, he has worked in a variety of commercial and business development roles in Australia, Europe, Asia and the USA. Over the last decade Robert has had key roles leading commercial teams negotiating complex multi-billion dollar international transactions in challenging geo-political environments, including acting as Gorgon Project lead negotiator for the first ever long term sale of Australian LNG to a consortium of Indian buyers. Robert has also undertaken a number of niche business development activities in the Asian region, including Japan, Vietnam and Indonesia. He most recently held the position of LNG Supply & Infrastructure Manager – Americas, where his responsibilities included closing the suite of commercial agreements for divertible supply from Middle East interests.
Peter Stickland, B.Sc Hons (Geology), GDipAppFin (Finsia), GAICD, New Ventures Advisor
Peter Stickland has over 20 years global experience in oil and gas exploration. Peter was CEO of Tap Oil Limited (ASX: TAP) from 2008 until late 2010 during which time he oversaw the evolution of the company into a South East Asia/Australia focused E&P Company. Prior to joining Tap Oil, Peter had a successful career with BHP Billiton including a range of technical and management roles. Peter is a member of the Board of Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association Limited (APPEA).
Andrew Leeds, M Fin, B Eng (Hons – Electrical), Senior Commercial Analyst
Andrew brings over 15 years experience to MEO from the Oil and Gas, Mining, Petrochemicals and Finance sectors. Most recently, Andrew spent five years at Macquarie Bank in Australia and Hong Kong trading derivatives across regional exchanges, prior to which he worked with Merrill Lynch Australia as an oil/gas analyst. Before joining Merrill Lynch Andrew spent four years with Santos, assessing international new ventures and exploration projects throughout South East Asia, northern Africa and the Middle East, before which he was with Bechtel and ExxonMobil/Orica JV respectively, as an engineer on large-scale Australian engineering projects. Andrew works with the CEO, executive team and G&G team to commercialise MEO’s exploration portfolio and development projects and to generate new ventures that will drive company growth.
Andrew holds a Masters of Finance from Macquarie University and a Bachelor in Engineering from James Cook University.
Errol Johnstone, B.Sc. (Geology/Geophysics), Chief Geoscientist
Errol Johnstone has had a distinguished international career with ExxonMobil over 29 years in a variety of exploration and appraisal roles, with particular emphasis on new ventures, basin analysis and new play generation. Mr Johnstone is one of the industry’s experts in Structural Geology, Regional Geologic synthesis, Sequence Stratigraphy and 2D/3D Seismic Interpretation. He has extensive experience working on multi-disciplinary taskforce studies working with Russian, Japanese, Malaysian and Indonesian geoscientists and has also been active in teaching structural geology field schools and mentoring new geoscience staff over the last 10 years.
With experience throughout most of the Australian and Far East basins including Russia, Mr Johnstone's multidisciplinary skills in geoscience integration generated many new exploration play initiatives resulting in several significant discoveries. Mr Johnstone, in conjunction with Mr Maughan, spearheads the Company's pursuit of New Ventures.
Lubing Liu, B.Petroleum (Reservoir) Engineering, Chief Reservoir Engineer
Lubing Liu is a reservoir engineer with extensive global experience in petroleum exploration, development, production, joint venture operations and new ventures. Lubing was the Vice President - Exploration and Petroleum Technology of Sinopec East Puffin Pty Ltd (Melbourne based) from August 2008 until end of 2010. Lubing also held various subsurface lead roles with international oil companies and energy service companies including ConocoPhillips, CNOOC, Woodside (RPS secondee to Woodside), RPS and Senergy. His geographical work areas cover Australia (Western Australia Offshore, Northern Territory Offshore and Victoria Offshore), China (South China Sea, Bohai Bay, and East China Sea), Southeast Asia (East Java and North Sumatra Offshore, Indonesia), Africa (Mauritania Offshore) and Kazakhstan.
Jarrod Dunne, Ph.D. and BSc. (Hons) (Geophysics), Senior Geophysicist
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Jarrod Dunne is a geophysicist with a passion for Quantitative Interpretation, built over 14 years spent working with Shell, Woodside and Nexus Energy. In this field, he has contributed to the research and development of many AvO, seismic inversion and rock physics techniques and has successfully applied these in worldwide exploration, development and production projects. In 1996 he completed a Ph.D at Melbourne University focussing on the seismic processing of deep seismic data from the Gippsland Basin. More recently he has worked on long-term seismic interpretation projects in the Browse and Gippsland Basins, along with new ventures studies in diverse areas such as Brunei, Falklands, Pakistan, Nigeria and Mozambique.
Dean Johnstone, B.Sc. (Geology/Geophysics), Senior Geoscientist
Dean Johnstone is a geoscientist with 28 years industry experience in oil and gas exploration, development and production. Over his career with ExxonMobil and Delhi Petroleum, he has worked in a variety of technical roles with particular emphasis on Structural Geology, New Ventures, well site operations, field development/appraisal and mature field opportunity generation. As well as working on a variety of projects within Australia and Indonesia, Dean had a long technical association with ExxonMobil’s activities in Papua New Guinea from Farm-in, through early appraisal and exploration drilling to FEED studies for the PNG Gas Project and LNG. More recently he was located in Canada working in a wide range of geological settings which included Western Canada Basin Production assets and arctic exploration in the Beaufort Sea. As ExxonMobil’s Structural Geology Advisor for Canada during this time, he was active in teaching field schools in the Canadian Rockies as well as mentoring early career geoscientists. On returning to Australia, Dean was involved in basin analysis for new Venture opportunities within SE Asia.
Amy Hughes, B.Sc (Hons) (Geology), Geoscientist
Amy Hughes is a geoscientist with 5 years of experience, mostly spent working at Woodside. Amy has worked as both an exploration and development geoscientist across a number of Woodside assets on the North West Shelf of Australia. Amy has a Bachelor of Science degree with honours, majoring in Geology from the University of Queensland. She joined MEO in August 2011 and is responsible for the geological and geophysical evaluation of some of MEO’s newly acquired exploration assets.
Lorna Parkes, M.Sc. and B.Sc. (Hons) (Geology)
Lorna is a Geoscientist and holds a B.Sc. in Geology from the University of Liverpool and a M.Sc. in Petroleum Geoscience from the University of Aberdeen. She has spent 6yrs working with Schlumberger in both the U.K. and Australia where as an experienced geomodeller she has worked on a wide range of development and production projects for numerous operators including Apache, Chevron. ConocoPhillips, Total and Talisman and more recently unconventional plays with QCG and Santos.
Stephanie Grey, B.Sc (Geology), Geological Assistant
Stephanie joined MEO in June 2010 to provide support to the Geology team with regard to data management and the online and physical libraries. Stephanie is also responsible for loading and interpreting seismic data in geophysical software programs and preparation of Government submissions. Stephanie graduated from The University of Melbourne in December 2010 with a Bachelor of Science Degree majoring in Geology.