These activities included the formation of upstream development scenarios for the Yolla gasfield, including the concept of landing Yolla gas in Victoria near Geelong, and management, on behalf of Boral Energy Ltd., of the commencement of the statutory government and environmental approvals process for this concept.

Mr. Hart co-founded Timor Sea Petroleum NL (which has now become MEOAustralia), the original tenement holder of the Evans Shoal gasfield, and has served on the board since 1995. He has also served as Chairman of the company’s Audit Committee for the same period.

Over the past eight years, Mr. Hart has been principally involved in formulating and developing the strategies for the commercialisation of the Evans Shoal gasfield. This activity primarily related to the development of the offshore methanol production concepts, the Tassie Shoal Methanol Project, the Timor Sea LNG Project and the upstream gas production options.

Mr. Hart has developed and manages each aspect of the Company’s projects, including upstream interests, the engineering, marketing, design, commercial and economic feasibility reviews, joint venture matters and ongoing statutory compliance for the Tassie Shoal Methanol Project and the Timor Sea LNG project.

JOHN ROBERT B.Eng.(Chem.) B.Com. M.I.E.(Aust.), DEVELOPMENT ENGINEERING MANAGER
John Robert is a graduate in Chemical Engineering and Commerce with an extensive background in the operation, design and consulting for petrochemical plants, including ethylene, ammonia and methanol. Mr. Robert has worked for Australia’s major petrochemicals production company, Altona Petrochemical Company (now QENOS Pty Ltd), for more than seven years, and for the leading methanol plant contractors, Davy John Brown and Kvaerner, for more than fifteen years.

Mr. Robert has conceived, marketed, managed, and written or contributed to many techno-economic and multi-disciplinary conceptual and feasibility studies. These include studies of technology options and costs for plants producing various chemicals, fertilizers and mineral products. He led a high-level expert team for technical review of a methanol process plant for a possible change of ownership, and managed a comparison of infrastructure costs at nine remote Australian sites for a major new methanol production facility.

He has managed operations, maintenance and technical staff for safe and profitable operations of plant producing ethylene, propylene, butadiene and gasoline. Mr. Robert was the lead process engineer during construction, operator training, commissioning and startup of an ethane cracking plant.

Mr. Robert has coordinated with customers and suppliers linked by pipelines to develop weekly and daily operating plans, initiated cost reporting systems to control efficiency of main furnaces which contributed to optimum performance and initiated process modifications resulting in production of new by-product at minimal cost.

Mr. Robert’s role in MEO Australia as the Project Engineering Manager and Senior Process Engineer since mid 2000 is the review and managemnet of all aspects of the process design, optimisation and engineering activities envisaged during these critical development phases of the Tassie Shoal methanol and LNG projects.  

KEN HENDRICK, B.E. (Civil), M.Eng. Sc., M.B.A., IMPLEMENTATION MANAGER
Mr. Hendrick is a Senior Project Manager with extensive experience in the safe execution of complex multi-discipline developments for the resources sector, particularly in the offshore oil and gas industry. Projects have varied from 'brownfields' upgrades to major 'greenfields' new builds, generally in the Australian and South East Asian region. He has maintained a hands on personal participation in all facets of project execution. Responsibilities have covered design through procurement to construction and commissioning in E / E&P / EPCM / EPC environments.

Mr. Hendrick has undertaken a diverse number of senior project roles ranging from client representative in an office or site situation; to active management of a 250 person multi-discipline consulting practice and to sponsorship/management of CAPEX projects up to A$250 million.

As the Company's Implementation Manager, he is responsible for both the design and project implementation strategies, which embrace conceptual evaluation, budget preparation; contracting plans; construction and the operational support phases. 

COLIN NAYLOR, B.Bus (Acc.) CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER AND COMPANY SECRETARY
Mr. Colin Naylor has had over 22 years financial experience in the resource sector, the majority of these years spent in the upstream industry with Woodside Petroleum Ltd and BHP Petroleum.  His responsibilities include accounting, taxation, compliance, treasury, company secretarial as well as involvement in the many commercial activities of the Company.

ANDREW HODGSON BSc(Hons), OPERATIONS GEOLOGIST
Mr. Hodgson is an Honour’s graduate in Geology from Monash University with over 20 years experience in the oil and gas exploration industry.  Mr. Hodgson has worked for many O&G companies including, Shell Australia, BHPB and more recently as senior Operations Geologist for Esso Australia, Nexus Energy and Todd Energy in New Zealand.  Mr. Hodgson brings with him a broad base of knowledge of drilling operations, wellsite geology and operations geology from both onshore and offshore projects, in many areas of the world.

At MEO Australia Mr Hodgson is largely responsible for coordinating formation evaluation requirements and associated third parties for the Heron drilling program.

JOHN MOORE BSc(Hons) (Geophysics) SENIOR GEOPHYSICAL ADVISOR
Mr. Moore graduated from University of Tasmania with BSc (honours) in Geophysics in 1969. Starting with Esso in Gippsland Basin exploration in 1970, Mr. Moore has worldwide experience, mostly with ExxonMobil, including assignments in Exxon operations in Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, and supervisory positions in Indonesia, USA Alaska Pacific and the North Sea.

Mr. Moore has supervised the acquisition and processing of MEO’s 2006 seismic data in the NT/P68 area and his main contribution has been in the imaging and processing of the Epenarra 3d DATA using “high end” 3D PSDM processing to image the exploration targets.

Currently Mr. Moore’s main task at MEO Australia is working on the planned Carnavon Basin seismic program, and plans for future surveys in MEO’s NT/P68 .

GEOFFREY O’BRIEN BSc(Hons) PhD, SENIOR GEOLOGICAL ADVISOR
Mr. O’Brien has worked in the petroleum exploration sector for over 20 years and has a First-Class Honours degree and PhD in Earth Sciences.  Mr. O’Brien has worked for BHP, Western Mining Petroleum, AGSO/Geoscience Australia, the University of Adelaide, GeoScience Victoria and has consulted to a wide number of companies in Australia and overseas. Mr. O’Brien’s key technical specialities include the application of integrated petroleum systems approaches to basin evaluation, with an emphasis on basin and migration modelling (1D, 2D and 3D), charge history analysis, remote sensing, fault and top seal analysis and seismic interpretation of hydrocarbon leakage and seepage. Mr. O’Brien has won numerous industry awards and was the 1992 PESA Australia Lecturer; he has published over 170 papers and abstracts.

Mr. O’Brien’s key responsibilities at MEO Australia include undertaking integrated petroleum systems analysis, reservoir and seal prediction and general G & G.