Central Petroleum Limited has boosted the expertise of its team as it prepares to broaden its highly prospective hydrocarbon search near Alice Springs.
The Company today announced the appointment of experienced international petroleum drilling manager, Perth-based Mr Timothy Green, as its Drilling Operations and Production Manager.
In a 35-year career, Mr Green has been involved in a variety of onshore and offshore oil and gas drilling operations in Australia, New Zealand, Britain, the United States, Angola, Indonesia, Pakistan and India, working for leading energy corporations such as Texaco, Premier Oil and Enterprise Oil.
As well as managing all aspects of drilling and production operations, Mr Green has been responsible for assembling and training drill teams, contracting rigs and heavy equipment, constructing access roads, initiating localised environmental and community development programs, and ensuring the security of personnel in some of the world’s most hostile operating environments including Pakistan and Angola.
A Mining Engineering graduate from Nottingham University, Mr Green has spent most of the past seven years in India and Pakistan, working for Premier Oil, for which he managed operations onshore Assam and onshore Baluchistan, as well as the Company’s joint ventures and corporate social responsibility portfolios.
“Mr Green’s appointment is timely as the logistical challenges thrown up by the long distances and unpredictable conditions of our increasing exploration exposure throughout Central Australia, are familiar working conditions and demands for this senior appointee,” Central Petroleum’s Managing Director, Mr John Heugh said. “An added bonus for a man of Mr Green’s experience is the absence of armed rebels in generally peaceful central Australia”
Central Petroleum has become the largest holder of prospective oil and gas acreage in onshore Australia, with a portfolio that includes the majority of the Pedrika and Amadeus Basins on the SA-NT border, all of the known Lander Trough in the NT, and 15,000 km2 of the Southern Georgina Basin in far west Queensland.
The Company has substantial coal seam gas, oil, gas, unconventional gas and oil shale and helium interests spanning over 250,000 km2 in central Australia, primarily in the Northern Territory Central Australia but also in Queensland, Western Australia and South Australia.
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