OUR PEOPLE

Management

The Tamarind Management Team is comprised of world-class oil and gas professionals with more than 250 years of South East Asian operating experience:
  • HSE and technical integrity, stakeholder and community relations
  • Operations and production enhancement
  • Subsurface - geology/geophysics, reservoir & petroleum engineering
  • Development & facilities engineering, operations engineering including field decommissioning
  • Drilling and well integrity engineering including decommissioning
  • Commercial and marketing 
Wai-Lid Wong, Chief Operating Officer
  • 17 years oil and gas experience in engineering, operations and asset management roles
  • Previously headed all development activity for a North American independent in the region with extensive experience in driving major ownership transitions and performance improvement programs
  • Prior to this, he was responsible for offshore operations and operations improvement roles at BP and BG in the North Sea, with a track record in turning around HSE and production performance within OIM and Operations Management roles
  • WLW has a PhD in chemical engineering and M.Eng from Imperial College, London
STEPHANE BIGARD, HEAD OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
  • ​Stephane is an economist, engineer and seasoned business development executive with nearly two decades of experience and a variety of contacts in the oil & gas industry globally
  • Stephane bridges the technical, commercial and economic side, and the economics of the industry.
  • He has worked with global majors including Total and Hess across Europe, Africa, North America and Asia as process and subsea engineer, offshore project manager, and economist and financial analyst
  • Stephane holds an Engineering degree (Chemical Engineering) from Central School, Lille and a Master of Science, Petroleum Engineering and Project Development from IFP, Paris