VP Technical
Geologist Michael Whibley has over 30 years of management, operational and interpretive experience in exploration and development projects and new business development. He has been based in Asia for the last 19 years, most recently as an Advisor with Pearl Energy.
Prior exploration and country manager and technical roles were with Amerada Hess, Santa Fe/Devon/PetroChina, Santos and Apache Energy in Southeast Asia, and Occidental and Phillips in Australia.
Mike’s experience is predominantly throughout Asia (Indonesia, Thailand, Indochina and South Asia) and Australasia (PNG, Timor Sea, NW Shelf).
His most notable recent “hands-on” appraisal - development projects have been the carbonate fields of Mudi, Sukowati and Ujung Pangkah in East Java, and the Bentu-Segat-Seng gas fields in Central Sumatra.
Mike graduated from the University of Western Australia with a BSc (Hons) in Geology and is a member of the IPA, SEAPEX and AAPG