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Nautical Petroleum plc Annual report and accounts 2010
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Board of Directors
John Conlin
Non-Executive Director and Chairman
John Conlin joined the Board of Nautical
Petroleum in June 2009. John has over
35 years’ experience in the Oil and Gas
industry, including 28 years with Royal
Dutch Shell. He has held senior technical
and management positions with Shell in
the UK, Netherlands, Denmark, Oman,
Australia, Russia and Saudi Arabia.
Past executive roles include General
Manager, Woodside Petroleum, and
President, Sakhalin Energy Investment
Company. His previous non-executive
Board positions include Hardman
Resources and Delphian Technology. John
is currently non-executive chairman of
Aurelian Oil and Gas. A petroleum
engineer by profession, John holds a BSc
(Hons.) in Chemical Engineering from
Edinburgh University and has completed
the Harvard Business School’s Advanced
Management Programme.
Stephen Jenkins
Chief Executive Officer
As part of a 28 year career in oil and gas,
Steve spent the 11 years prior to Nautical at
Nimir Petroleum as Business Development
and HSE Manager, where he was
responsible for acquisition strategy and
technical dimensions of strategic planning.
He successfully led multidisciplinary teams
to evaluate opportunities in the Americas,
the Middle East, North Africa, and other
OECD countries, which led to the
acquisition and subsequent turnaround of
a Venezuelan oil producing field.
Steve also managed a drilling programme
that resulted in the quadrupling of
production in a field on Sakhalin Island in
the Russian Federation and identified and
secured a farm-out with a major oil
company for a substantial carry on a large
oilfield in Kazakhstan.
Steve has an MSc in Petroleum Geology
and DIC from Imperial College of Science
and Technology, the University of London,
a BSc Hons in Geology from the Queen’s
University Belfast and is a Fellow of the
Geological Society of London. He is
currently Chairman of the Oil & Gas
Independents Association (OGIA), and a
director of Oil & Gas UK.
Paul Jennings
Commercial Director
Paul’s experience in the oil and gas sector
exceeds 30 years and spans the roles of
accountant, economist and commercial
and business development director.
Paul worked with BP for 17 years, with
responsibility for projects
in China, Russia, Mongolia, Mozambique
and West Africa. After leaving BP Paul
established exploration and production
companies in both Russia and Nigeria,
before jointly founding Nautical Petroleum
with Steve Jenkins