Michael is a Chartered Engineer with over 35 years of experience in the international upstream oil and gas industry.  Michael has held technical, operational and management roles with BP, Santos and Oil Search as well as executive leadership roles with Rig Design Services Ltd, Eaglewood Energy and most recently with Arran Energy a company he founded in 2019 and which became the largest privately owned oil and gas company in Papua New Guinea.  Michael has extensive experience in drilling, well operations and gas project developments.