Our Australasian Experience

Jonathan is Chief Executive Officer of ERCE. A geoscientist by background, Jonathan has extensive experience in new business development, M&A, exploration, appraisal, development and production operations gained over 20+ years at Woodside Energy and Ophir Energy. As Director of Subsurface at Ophir Energy Jonathan was responsible for the delivery of all geoscience, exploration and reservoir management activities across Ophir’s global portfolio. He has worked across a diverse range of geological and geographic environments including West, North and East Africa, SE Asia, Australia, and Central America. Jonathan has deep experience of Production Sharing Contracts, Joint Operating Agreements and associated Joint Venture Management activities in a variety of regulatory regimes.

Jonathan holds an Executive MBA from the University of Western Australia, a PhD in Petroleum Geology from University of Adelaide, a MSc Petroleum Geology from University of Aberdeen and a BSc in Geology and Applied Geology from the University of Glasgow. He is a member of PESGB, PESA and currently Treasurer of the Energy Group of the Geological Society of London.

Carl has over 25 years of sedimentological and sequence stratigraphic experience working with E&P companies on exploration, development and producing assets.

Carl has collaborated on projects with companies including; Shell, OMV, ConocoPhillips, Murphy, BHP, Soco, Cairn Energy, Inpex, Woodside and ENI, in sedimentary basins ranging from West Africa, India, SE Asia, Papua New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand. His expertise lies in a multidisciplinary approach, tying in core-based studies with high-resolution image data and sequence stratigraphic analysis. He has worked both siliciclastic and carbonate systems, with environments of deposition (EOD) ranging from fluvial, estuarine systems, fluvial- and wave-dominated deltaic systems, shallow water pinnacle reef and deep-marine ramp carbonate systems, along with slope- to basin-floor fan turbidites.

Over the past twenty years Susannah has held both Exploration Geophysicist and Development Geophysicist roles and has been involved in multiple interpretation and mapping projects primarily in Australia including Cooper Basin, Perth Basin and Northern Canarvon Basin. She has broad geoscience experience and has experience in all phases of oil and gas exploration with Chevron, Cooper Energy, Arc Energy and Santos. This includes gravity, magnetic and seismic geophysical survey acquisition, processing, interpretation and static modelling for both exploration and development projects. She has evaluated and risked multiple exploration prospects as well as worked up detailed, multi-well field development plans and infill well projects. Susannah has particular expertise in structural seismic interpretation and has built several structural framework models using the Petrel software.