Michael Whibley

VP Technical

Mike, a geologist, 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.

His prior exploration, country manager and technical roles were with Amerada Hess, Santa Fe Energy/Devon Energy/PetroChina, Santos and Apache Energy in Southeast Asia, and Occidental Petroleum and Phillips Petroleum in Australia.

Mike's experience is predominantly throughout Asia (Indonesia, Thailand, Indochina and South Asia) and Australasia (Papua New Guinea, Timor Sea, North West 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 Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Geology and is a member of the Indonesian Petroleum Association, South East Asian Exploration Society and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.