MANAGEMENT

 

Anthony (Tony) James Strasser 
BComm (Accounting), CA
Company Secretary/Chief Financial Officer

Mr Strasser has been involved in taxation, corporate finance and advisory services for more than 12 years, having gained experience initially in the taxation division of Arthur Andersen, and subsequently reaching senior management level with Coopers & Lybrand in their Corporate Finance division. More recently, Mr Strasser has held senior positions with boutique investment and advisory firms Inteq Limited and Claymore Capital in Sydney focusing on financial management, due diligence assignments, mergers and acquisitions, and both private and public capital raisings.
Mr Strasser brings a broad base of corporate and financial experience to Anzon, having worked with companies involved in a range of industries including resources, mining, telecommunications, leisure and financial services.
Mr Strasser is also Company Secretary of Anzon Energy Limited.

 

Gillian Nairn 
Joint Company Secretary

Ms Nairn was appointed as a solicitor of New South Wales in 1991. She has worked in commercial law firms for 8 years. Prior to her appointment as Company Secretary, Ms Nairn was working as Special Counsel in the Workplace Relations group of a medium sized commercial law firm. In addition to her role as Joint Company Secretary of the Company, Ms Nairn also performs the role of Joint Company Secretary of Anzon Energy Limited.

 

Ken Grieves 
BSc (Geology and Geophysics)

Mr Grieves is a petroleum geophysicist with over twenty years of experience in seismic interpretation. After beginning his career in data processing with Geophysical Service International he spent ten years with Esso Australia, working primarily on exploration and development projects in the Gippsland Basin. In 1991 he began consulting in seismic interpretation, specialising in depth conversion. Mr Grieves has consulted to most of Australia’s larger oil and gas companies.

 

Lester Campbell (Cam) Rathie  
Upstream Petroleum Pty Limited – Contractor

Mr Rathie is a director and principal consultant of Upstream Petroleum , which will be the day-to-day operational management contractor for the Basker and Manta oil field developments.
Mr Rathie commenced his 30-year career in the oil industry working worldwide with service companies Core Laboratories and Otis Engineering. This has provided him with extensive experience in well testing, well performance monitoring and wellbore maintenance. Mr Rathie’s work has taken him to Australia, Indonesia, Mexico, Canada and Dubai.
In 1988 Mr Rathie was appointed to an operations management role with BHP Petroleum for offshore projects located in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Vietnam. Field production management, well testing and maintenance were a feature of his assignments in the Northern Territory and Western Australia. Mr Rathie spent two years in Vietnam establishing the first offshore oilfield production operation by a western company in that country.
In 1997 Mr Rathie formed Upstream Petroleum with Mark Paton, providing project and operational management and engineering services to the Australian oil and gas industry, with offices in Darwin, Melbourne and Perth and currently employing over eighty full time employees.

 

Mark Paton 
BSc (Hons 1) CEng
Upstream Petroleum Pty Limited – Contractor

After completing his studies at Leeds University in 1980, Mr Paton joined BP Exploration as a Petroleum Engineer and worked in the UK and Dutch sectors of the North Sea, BP’s head office in London and in Qatar. In 1989 he emigrated to Australia and joined BHP Petroleum in Northern Australia. Mr Paton’s initial assignments with BHP involved project managing a number of subsea well completion programmes in Northern Australia including the Jabiru, Challis, Skua and Griffin subsea well developments. From 1993 to 1997 Mr Paton was Production and latterly General Manager for the operation of three FPSO’s in the Timor Sea, the Jabiru, Challis and Skua Venture FPSO’s. In this role he was directly responsible for managing over 250 employees and an operating budget in excess of $75 million per annum.
In 1997 Mr Paton formed Upstream Petroleum with Cam Rathie, providing project and operational management and engineering services to the Australian oil and gas industry, with offices in Darwin, Melbourne and Perth and currently employing over eighty full time employees.
Mr Paton is a member of the Institute of Chemical Engineers and is a Chartered Engineer.

 

Shau-Yee Wong
B.Sc. (Hons.), Life Member SPE
Consultant

Mr Wong has had 38 years experience in the oil and gas industry – 22 years full time staff with Shell, 6 years with Esso Australia, and more than 10 years as an independent consultant. During this time Mr Wong has worked in Brunei, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia (including the Bass Strait) and Myanmar, holding staff positions such as Section Leader of the Shell/Esso operated Northern North Sea Fields in Shell UK Expro and Head of Reservoir Engineering Department in Sarawak Shell Berhad, Malaysia.
Mr Wong has extensive experience in Reservoir Engineering, including well testing and reservoir simulation.

 

Cate Friedlander 
Commercial/legal counsel
Consultant

Ms Friedlander has been practicing corporate and commercial law for over 18 years, in both private and corporate practise. She has extensive experience in the oil and gas industry in Australia (onshore and offshore and including Bass Strait) and internationally.
Cate has worked for BP Australia, ESSO Australia and, most recently, was General Counsel for Novus Petroleum Limited from 1996-2003. Cate now practices as an independent legal consultant to the resources industry.

 

 

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