TotalEnergies

• Project Manager – France – 01.2020/05/2024

Senior Advisor Exploration & Production Operations: Exploration & Production Project Reviews and Operability and Safety (OPERSAFE) Audits; Corporate HSE Management System (MAESTRO) Audits; Major Incident Investigation. Supported Affiliates in Bulgaria, USA, Papua New Guinea, Nigeria, Congo, Angola, Gabon, Brunei, Denmark, Brazil, Qatar, The Netherlands, Kazakhstan, Bolivia, Argentina, France.

• Director Operations – Papua New Guinea – 04.2018/12.2019

Reporting to the Managing Director/Country Chair, overlooking the operated exploration and production activity: ultra-deep offshore exploration (first in country) and onshore remote foothills field development (heliportable operations).

• Chief Investigator Major Incidents – France – 04.2016/03.2018

Chief Investigator Major Accidents and High Potential Events, covering the Group’s Upstream and Downstream Activity; ad hoc assistance in HSE Management System Audits.

• Branch Director – Kazakhstan – 04.2013/03.2016

Responsible for the setting up and execution of a seismic acquisition and exploration drilling work program and subsequent closing down of an E&P Exploration Operations Branch (TEP Nurmunai) in Aktobe, Kazakhstan.

• Operations Manager – Bolivia – 04.2009/03.2013

Responsible for the planning and execution of the Incahuasi exploration/appraisal campaign in the Bolivian foothills.

• Operations Manager – Sudan – 10.2007/03.2009

Responsible for the planning and start-up of an exploration campaign in Southern Sudan

• Operations Manager – Saudi Arabia – 11.2003/09.2007

Responsible for the planning and start-up of a 7 exploration well drilling campaign in the Rub Al-Khali desert; Total representative in the SRAK (Shell, Total, Aramco) Management Team

• Offshore Installation Manager – Cameroon – 09.2001/10.2003

Overlooking 34 well-jackets, 320 wells, 5 production platforms, 1 living quarter platform and 1 FSO.

• Technical Manager and acting Asset Manager – Angola – 06.1999/08.2001

Overlooking the company’s onshore assets (ex Fina Petroleos de Angola).

PetroFina

• Technical Director – Angola – 01.1998/06.1999

Responsible for the exploration and production activity. Supervising Drilling, Production, Petroleum Engineering, Projects and General Services Departments.

• Operations Manager – Italy – 09.1995/12.1997

Responsible for the drilling and production (oil and gas) activity on- and offshore Italy; Representative in Technical and Operating Committees of non-operated assets.

• Operations Manager – Libya – 09.1992/08.1995

Responsible for the planning and execution of an exploration campaign, including the drilling of 10 wells (2 drilling units) in the Sirte Basin.

• Drilling Manager – U.K. – 09.1990/08.1992

Responsible for the drilling activity in the U.K. sector of the North Sea, including HTHP exploration work.

• Drilling Manager – Australia – 01.1990/08.1990

Single string exploration venture, responsible for the drilling of 3 offshore wells in the Bass Strait.

• Drilling Manager – Angola – 12.1987/01.1990

Responsible for planning and execution of drilling and workover operations with 3 land drilling units operated and owned by Fina Petroleos de Angola.

Shell

• Operations Engineer – The Netherlands – 06.1984/12.1987

Operations Engineer for heavy work-overs and sidetrack drilling, overlooking up to 5 units; Operations Engineer and Deputy Section Head Offshore Drilling overlooking up to 5 units.

• Well Site Petroleum Engineer – Peru – 02.1983/06.1984

Two exploration wells, including the Camisea discovery, in the Peruvian Amazone jungle.

• Well Site Petroleum Engineer – U.K. – 06.1981/06.1983

Offshore drilling and production platforms (Auk A, Fulmar A, Dunlin A)

• Trainee Petroleum Engineer – The Netherlands – 12.1980/06.1981

Six months formal Petroleum Engineering training program.

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

• Associate Professor – Belgium – 09.1994/10.2013

Lecturer Drilling and Petroleum Engineering at the Mining Engineering Department of the Applied Sciences Faculty. Additional involvement as assessor in the M.Sc. theses evaluation and ad hoc consulting with research and Ph.D. programs at the University.