Founding Team

Ben Clube

Managing Director

30+ years’ experience in the oil and gas industry.

Executive Director at FAR Ltd – managed Africa business, responsible for breakthrough farm-out deals resulting in world class SNE and FAN discoveries.

Built FAR West Africa acreage portfolio, completed deals with Majors. During tenure at FAR, share price increased 4 fold.

Finance Director of Oilex Limited – capital raisings, M&A, discoveries and production in South East Asia, India and Middle East.

BHP Petroleum Vice President Finance – leadership role on development projects in Australia, USA, UK, Africa, Americas, Middle East.

David Ormerod

Technical Director

30+ years’ experience in oil and gas sector. Participated in several major discoveries

Managing Director at Antilles Oil and Gas – captured acreage in South America. Technical Director at Pura Vida Energy  – projects in Africa creating significant shareholder value.

Karoon New Ventures + South America Exploration Manager – responsible for project development in periods of dramatic growth in shareholder value.

14 years with BHP Petroleum – gained experience in Gulf of Mexico, West Africa, South East Asia and North West Shelf. Led Woodside’s Gulf of Mexico exploration team, New Ventures Manager at Tap Oil, Manager of Sterling Oil & Gas assets in West Africa.

Rohan Irvin

Chief Technology Officer

Engineering and Technology

18 years of oil and gas development experience + CO2 CCUS.

Production, reservoir engineering and CCUS experience with Oxy, Woodside, and FAR Ltd.

Expertise in complex and unconventional natural gas reservoirs garnered in USA and internationally.

At FAR Ltd responsible for SNE oil discovery appraisal and evaluation.

Lee Reborse

Operations Manager

Drilling, Supply Chain, HSE

25 years of international drilling operations experience.

FAR Ltd Drilling Operations Manager – delivered frontier West Africa deep water wells.

Noble Drilling Region Manager – led numerous well delivery projects, overseeing multiple onshore and offshore drilling installations in South America, North Sea, Australia and Africa.

Peter Nicholls

Exploration Manager

Principal Geophysicist

Over 35 years experience.

FAR Ltd Exploration Manager for world class FAN and SNE discoveries offshore Senegal.

BHP Petroleum Exploration and New Ventures Manager.

Participated in numerous discoveries in Australia and internationally.