Speakers

Michael is the Senior Vice President, within Shell’s upstream business, leading the Wells and Geoscience operations teams in assets across the Americas and Africa. This includes activities in Shell’s global frontier exploration ventures. Michael also leads the Global Operations excellence teams supporting wells and geo-science operations.
Michael is a degreed Engineer in Mining from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. He has worked within the upstream oil and gas industry for 25 years. He began his career as a wells engineer and has held roles in offshore supervisory, engineering, project management and operations management. In addition to technical roles, Michael has had secondments in several Shell joint ventures, holding roles in corporate leadership, joint venture asset management and CEO capacities. Michael is also actively involved with industry bodies on safety, welfare, and standardization. Michael enjoys the challenges and rewards of supporting multi-cultural and multi-discipline teams in support of assets, countries, and communities. He has lived and worked globally with assignments in the Netherlands, Philippines, Namibia, Nigeria, Norway, Australia, Brunei, and Russia. He is passionate about building competitive teams to face the strategic issues facing the energy industry. Michael is married and enjoys hiking, travelling and the outdoors.