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
BARRY ​DAWE, DIRECTOR, SUBSURFACE DIRECTOR
  • 38 years of experience in reservoir engineering and industry experience across exploration, development, new ventures, production operations and commercial functions
  • When Exxon Malaysia partnered with PETRONAS on the giant Angsi Field development, he joined their field exploration team and was essential to their success, where they increased the going in reserves by five times and increased oil production to more than three times what was planned
  • Barry holds a Bachelor of Applied Sciences from the University of British Columbia
JASON ​PEACOCK, NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY MANAGER
  • ​18 years of oil and gas experience across production operations, reservoir engineering and petroleum development
  • Extensive leadership and management experience with both onshore and offshore exploration and development projects with Chevron in the North Sea, Shell in Asia and more recently with AWE in NZ
  • Jason assumed the role of Asset Manager for the Tui Field in 2009 and in 2015 was promoted to the role of General Manager NZ for AWE
  • Jason holds a Bachelor of Science in Geology from the University of Canterbury, NZ and a Master of Science (Honours) in Petroleum Engineering from Heriot Watt University, Scotland