ANDREW MACKAY: NRG's Managing Director, has a total of 28 years experience in the Oil & Gas Exploration and Production Industry.

As a graduate engineer he initially worked for a major service company, both in the UK and overseas, before moving into drilling operations. On returning to the UK he joined the Department of Energy and then set up NRG 4 years later. NRG has been operating for 15 years and has been involved in all spheres of the international well operations business. During this time Andrew himself has provided management input and advice to major projects and initiatives, at all corporate levels, for various sizes of Oil & Gas related companies, regulatory authorities and firms of lawyers.

PETER ROBINSON: NRG’s Operations Manager, has a total of 30 years experience in the oil industry and government.

An honours graduate in Geology, Peter joined the industry in 1974 in Indonesia. He was then employed by the Department of Energy as a Senior Well Operations Inspector for 8 years and was responsible for giving Government consent for UK well operations.

Following a 2½ year career as an Offshore Installation Manager, he returned to the Department and then to the HSE as a member of a senior management team with responsibilities for recruitment, internal systems for inspection and safety case assessment and or operational input into the new offshore regulatory regime. He managed HSE's well operations inspection function and was also the HSE’s Area Director for Lancashire and Cumbria and Deputy Director of Operations for the HSE's Offshore Safety Division. Peter joined NRG in 1997.

DAVE THOMAS, NRG’s Well Examination Manager, has a broad knowledge of all aspects in the planning, implementation and management of well operations, gained over 28 years experience with major players in the industry.

After gaining an honours degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1975, Dave joined Shell International in the Netherlands as a Drilling Engineer and was involved in both land and offshore drilling operations. A period as an Assistant Driller in Iraq was followed by a move to BNOC (later to become Britoil), where he progressed within the Drilling Department from Wellsite Engineer to achieve overall responsibility for drilling engineering operations in the UK. After the takeover by BP, Dave was appointed as the Drilling Engineering Superintendent responsible for managing well engineering on mobile rigs offshore UK, Holland and Eire; during the period of peak activity in 1990 the work involved eight floating and three jack-up units.

In 1991, Dave was engaged by the HSE as a well operations specialist and then Head of Well Engineering the following year, with responsibility for the UKCS Well Consents System and close involvement in the development of the safety case regime. Dave joined NRG in 2002.


CHRIS RANGER, an NRG Associate, joined Halliburton in 1977 as a graduate engineer. Chris worked in Norway as a stimulation and cementation engineer. In 1981 he joined Phillips Norway and gained a wide experience in well construction and production operations, holding positions as Drilling Engineer, Offshore Production Engineer, Corrosion Engineer, and Offshore Drilling Supervisor.

Since 1988 Chris has worked as a contract drilling/well operations engineer for many operators including Shell, BP, and ExxonMobil. In 1996 he joined Amerada Hess as their independent Well Examiner and was instrumental in implementing and operating their Well Examination Scheme. In the recent past he has also performed well examination work for several other operators including Ranger Oil, ConocoPhillips, Star Energy, EnCana and British Gas.

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