Robert Gard is an experienced petroleum industry professional with more than 30 years of experience in all aspects of the industry. He spent 23 years with ExxonMobil where he worked across the whole value chain including exploration, drilling, workovers, project design, corporate affairs, tax and commercial. He also spent 8 years with ASX-listed small-cap MEO Australia (now Melbana) where he was responsible for a number of high value farm-out deals with industry majors such as Petrobras, ENI and Origin Energy and was instrumental in securing exploration acreage in Australia, Indonesia, Thailand and Cuba. Mr Gard was also AGL Energy's manager of upstream commercial where he was responsible for all commercial aspects of AGL's Upstream assets and the site selection for AGL's Proposed LNG Import terminal. Mr Gard has been providing advisory assistance to a number of small upstream oil and gas exploration and development companies, and has assisted with acquisition and due diligence of several upstream assets.
