About us
Board Profile
Peter Moir
Chief Executive Officer
Mr Moir’s qualifications include B.Sc. Civil Engineering and M.Eng. Petroleum Engineering. He is a Chartered Engineer in the UK and has more than 30 years experience in technical, operational and commercial aspects of the Exploration and Production business.
John Newton
Executive Chairman
Mr Newton has a background in international stockbroking, accounting and corporate finance and has been a director of a number of quoted companies in Australia and Canada. He has maintained a continued involvement in the Australian and international financial sector as an investment adviser and consultant.
Mark Nichols
Non Executive Director (Remuneration and Audit Committee Member)
Mark James Nichols is a qualified accountant who has over 20 years' experience in the energy and chemicals sectors, with the major French oil company Total S.A. and with BOC Group Plc respectively. His most recent executive position was as Director of Strategy for Laing O'Rourke, the privately-owned construction firm. In addition to his role at Xtract Energy, Mark acts as a business consultant to a number of enterprises.
Sue Wickerson
Non Executive Director (Remuneration, Nominations and Audit Committee Member)
Miss Wickerson spent 15 years with a medium size accounting practice, setting up and running both a new registrars division and a management services company. For the last 20 years Miss Wickerson has been running her own successful company which provides accounting and taxation services, company secretarial and financial management services to a wide range of clients, both corporate and private. Miss Wickerson acts as a finance director of various non-listed companies.
Paul Butcher
Non Executive Director
Paul holds a BSc in Earth Sciences and an MSc in Marine Geology and Geophysics and an MBA. Much of his career was spent in BP and Amoco where he spent 25 years, leading to a variety of senior strategic and operational leadership positions within the upstream business.
