Brent Villemarette is a petroleum engineer with more than 30 years of domestic and international experience in the oil and gas industry, spanning a wide range of disciplines including exploration, development, operations, marketing, acquisitions and new ventures. He was chief operations officer of Transerv Energy which has assets in the onshore Perth Basin in Western Australia and in Alberta Canada. He was operations director for Latent Petroleum, a private oil and gas exploration company which he co-founded with a small team of industry professionals engaged in commercialising the Warro tight gas field in the northern Perth Basin. Mr Villemarette also held the roles of international reservoir engineering manager for new ventures with Apache Corporation based in Houston, Texas, reservoir engineering manager for Apache Energy based in Perth, and several senior engineering positions in the US with Apache Corporation and Oryx Energy (formerly Sun E&P). He has a Bachelor of Science, majoring in Petroleum Engineering, from the Louisiana State University and is a member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers. Mr Villemarette passed away suddenly in October 2018.
