Frank Connolly, Director & Chair
>40 years’ experience in legal practice, investment banking and corporate finance, oil & gas exploration and development, corporate & securities regulation, investment management. Formerly Senior Executive, General Counsel and Secretary of Senex Energy Ltd., A Founding Director of Queensland Gas Company Ltd. Managed initial public offering and subsequent capital raising activities for at least 17 different companies.
Viv Oldfield, Director
>40 years of oil, gas and water bore drilling experience. Independent owner and Managing Director of Silver City Drilling that operates throughout Australia with a fleet in excess of 30 Oil & Gas drilling rigs. Major participant in the Eastern Well Group sale transaction to Transfield Corporation. Significant Australian pastoral and grazing landowner.
Bill Cook, Director
>50 years of business experience in many different operational and management roles and many different industry sectors. Held senior executive roles with Consolidated Press Holdings, Qantas Flight Catering, Ironbridge Capital’s investment companies. Developed multiple successful private equity investments including aggregation and sale of a major drilling business (Easternwell) and, aggregation and sale of a major fuel distributor (AusFuel Group).
Brent Glassborow, Technical Director
Energy industry professional with >20 years’ experience focused on Australasian new ventures and subsurface technical program management, having managed petroleum industry related projects on five continents. Formerly BG Groups’ Global Technology Manager, QGCs’ Head Operations Geologist and the founder of AusGasCo. Holds a BSc (Honours) in Petroleum Geology and Geophysics from the Australian School of Petroleum (University of Adelaide).
Dr Steven Scott, Technical Advisor
>40 years’ experience as a geoscientist in coal exploration, conventional oil and gas, unconventional oil and gas and CSG exploration, appraisal and development in Australia and internationally. Initial senior geoscientist with Queensland Gas Company Ltd, VP-Exploration with QGC, A BG Group company and GM-Exploration with Senex Energy. Founder of Adavale Energy, a boutique consultancy firm, delivering integrated technical, project management and business development services for the petroleum industry.