DirectorsBernard Wheelahan
BSc Dip Ed, FRACI, FAusIMM, FAICD, FAIE – Chairman and non-executive independent director
Mr Wheelahan is a company director with more than more than 40 years experience in education, petroleum, gas and mineral resources in both Australia and overseas.
During his career he has been either chairman, director or committee member of more than thirty public and private companies and joint ventures associated with petroleum, LNG, coal and minerals. His particular business interests include corporate governance, sustained scientific exploration, the systematic management of health, safety and environment and sustainable development. He is an honorary life member of the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association.
During the last three years Mr Wheelahan has served as chairman of Pacific Hydro Ltd, as deputy chairman of Transfield Services Limited, chairman of The Gribbles Group Ltd, chairman of the Council on Australian and Latin American Relations and a member of the Rio Tinto Foundation for Sustainable Minerals Processing Board.
Andrew R Adams
BSc, MBA, GAICD - Managing Director
Mr Adams has been with the Company since 2001. He was appointed chief executive officer on 19 August 2005 and was appointed managing director on 19 July 2006.
Mr Adams holds a Bachelor's degree in geophysics as well as an MBA and has worked in the upstream petroleum industry since starting as a geophysicist in 1979 in his native Canada. His experience spans both technical and commercial aspects of the business with large and small enterprises, including Amoco Canada, Santos Limited and Cue Energy Resources Limited.
He sits on the exploration committee of the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association and is a member of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia.
E Geoffrey Albers
LLB, FAICD - Non-executive director
Mr Albers acted as chief executive officer until 19 August 2005 and as a non executive director from that date.
Mr Albers is a company director with over 30 years experience as a lawyer and administrator in corporate law, petroleum exploration and resource sector investment. During this period Mr Albers has sponsored the formation of companies that have made the original Maari (Moki) oil field discovery in New Zealand, the Yolla Gas/Condensate discovery in Bass Strait, the Evans Shoal gas field discovery/appraisal in the Timor Sea, the SE Gobe oil field development in Papua New Guinea and the Oyong oil and gas development in Indonesia.
During the last three years Mr Albers has served as a director of MEO Australia Ltd (formerly named Methanol Australia Limited), Octanex NL, Moby Oil & Gas Limited and Cue Energy Resources Limited. He is a member of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia.
Henry J Askin
BSc (Hons 1st), PhD - Non-executive independent director
Dr. Askin has over 30 years of experience in the oil exploration industry, of which some 25 years were with the Shell Group of Companies. From 1990 until his retirement from executive duties in December 1997, he was exploration manager with Shell Development Australia in Melbourne, with responsibility for the conduct of the company's exploration programme. Throughout this period he was Shell's representative on the APPEA Exploration Committee and was a director of the various Shell companies established pursuant to operations in the Indonesia Australia Zone of Cooperation.
Dr. Askin's previous appointments with the Shell Group were in Australia, Oman, Norway, the Netherlands and India. During this time he held various positions including seismic interpreter, chief geophysicist, seismic processing manager, deputy head of new exploration ventures and, immediately prior to returning to Australia, general manager of Shell India.
While his career has ranged from seismic interpretation and prospect generation to senior management, Dr. Askin has contributed to the practice of geophysics in the wider sense, most notably in the co-authorship of a paper read at the EAEG meeting in Belgrade (1987) which received the inaugural best paper award. He is a life member of the Society of Exploration Geophysicists, an active member of the European Association of Geo scientists and Engineers, and a member of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia.
Dr. Askin was appointed Chairman of Central Petroleum Limited in April 2005.
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