Company Overview

Carry out oil and gas exploration activities.

Directors and Management

Ms Gillian Swaby

Non-Executive Director 09/01/2004

Ms Swaby has been involved in financial and corporate administration for listed companies for over 30 years, as both Director and Company Secretary covering a range of industry sectors. Ms Swaby has extensive experience in the area of corporate governance, corporate and financial management and board practice. Gillian is a past Chair of the Western Australian Council of Chartered Secretaries of Australia, a former Director on their National Board and a lecturer for the Securities Institute of Australia. Ms Swaby is the principal of a corporate consulting company and was a member of the Paladin Energy Ltd Board for a period of 10 years. In August 2015, she stepped down from her role at Paladin as Company Secretary and EGM-Corporate Services.

BBus(Acc),FCIS,FAICD,FGIA, MAICD Female

Mr James Martin Riley

Non-Executive Director 30/06/2021

Mr Riley has 35 years' experience in the oil and gas industry in a variety of roles. Martin was part in the commercial inception and development of the Coal Seam Gas (CSG) industry in Queensland in the 1990s with Origin Energy. Martin has held a number of sub-surface technical roles, and senior executive positions within the industry, across both CSG and conventional assets, through exploration, development and production. He is the Chairperson of Risk Committee.

B.Eng (Chem. Hons) Male

Mr James Allan Vincent Mckay

Non-Executive Chairman,Non-Executive Director 11/11/2009

Mr McKay is Executive Chairman and co-founder of Walcot Capital. James is the former Chairman of Sunshine Gas Limited. Mr McKay is also a director and shareholder of Centenary Memorial Gardens Pty Ltd, a major Brisbane cemetery and crematorium. He is a past president of the Australasian Cemeteries and Crematoria Association, having served on its board for over 8 years. James McKay has a commercial background, with finance, investment markets, business management and legal.

B.Com. LLB Male

Mr Shaun Edward Scott

Non-Executive Director 16/10/2019

Mr Scott is an experienced independent non-executive director on both public and private boards. As an executive, Mr Scott was CEO of Arrow Energy Limited. At the Board level, Shaun has operated as Chairman and non-executive director of a number of publicly listed companies and chaired Board sub-committees. Mr Scott has experience in business strategy, negotiations, financial and risk management, executive remuneration, governance and safety leadership. He is Member of Risk Committee.

BBus(Acc) / BA(Rec Admin), ACA. Chartered Accountant Male

Mr Christopher (Chris) Pieters

Executive Director 06/06/2013

Mr Pieters is the Managing Director and co-founder of Walcot Capital and former Managing Director of Tlou Energy Limited, when it was a private unlisted public company with CSG exploration interests in Southern Africa. Previously he was Chief Commercial Officer at Sunshine Gas Limited prior to its merger with the Queensland Gas Company in 2008. Mr Pieters also held other technical and business development roles at Sunshine Gas.

BSc(Hons), BBus, MPESA Male

Mr Tor McCaul

Managing Director 16/04/2009

Mr McCaul has over 30 years' experience in the oil and gas industry. He spent the next 9 years based in Brisbane working with operating companies in technical roles on projects in Queensland, New Zealand and PNG, which included a secondment to Chevron Niugini. He spent the following 11 years in Asia (Karachi, Jakarta, Chennai and Delhi) in technical, finance, commercial and management roles. At VICO Indonesia (a BP-ENI JV) he was their LNG Contract Manager on the 23 million-tonne-per-annum Bontang LNG project. In India, he was Cairn plc's Head of Commercial for the Indian business. Mr McCaul is currently a Director of the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association and has previously been the Chairman for the Queensland Section of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and was the 2013 Queensland Petroleum Exploration Association (QUPEX) President. He is Member of Risk Committee.

B.E. (Hons/Petroleum), B.Econ, MBA Male

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