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Roger W. Neal - Summary Resume

Managing Director                       

PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE

• Vice President, TRC Global Management Solutions
• Vice President, Nexant – Upstream/Midstream Consulting
• Principal, International Energy Consultants
• Senior Vice President – Consulting, Wood Mackenzie
• Area Manager – South America, Gaffney Cline & Associates
• Vice President, Business Development Amoco Venezuela
• Director – International Negotiations, Amoco
• Petroleum Engineer and Engineering Management, Amoco

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

Mr. Neal is an experienced energy professional who provides a unique blend of operational / technical / commercial support, business development and negotiations support, litigation support and strategic management consulting services to domestic and international clients.  Following a 20 year career in oil and gas operations, international business development, and executive management with a major international oil and gas operating company, he has served as Consulting Practice leader in international management consulting companies and as Principal with two independent, international consulting firms.
 

For more than 28 years, he has advised private, public and government clients on oil and gas projects covering a full spectrum of onshore and offshore upstream energy projects and midstream energy projects— including field development planning, licensing bid round analysis, LNG liquefaction terminals, LNG regasification terminals, natural gas markets, negotiations, project technical and financial due diligence, and management strategic advisory services. An expert in the international oil and gas industry, Mr. Neal has served as a leader of the exploration and production international new ventures for an integrated major oil and gas company. He has also been an advisor on privatization, restructuring and oil/gas contracts for governments, and other energy sector clients. His in-depth experience also includes:

• Directing project technical due diligence, asset valuation, economic/financial studies, acquisitions and divestitures, privatization.
• Petroleum engineering, reserve audits, platforms and field development cost estimating, contract development, and corporate planning,
• Providing expert witness analysis and litigation support.

Mr. Neal’s clients have included oil and gas companies, developers, host governments, national oil companies, banks, law firms, financial advisors, investors, and international multi-lateral lenders. International experience includes projects in Europe, Central Asia, Middle East, Africa, Far East, Pacific Rim, Russia, China, The Caribbean, Central and South America.

ACADEMIC DATA

• Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Faculty Scholar Accelerated Program, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL

ADVANCED TRAINING

• Advanced courses in petroleum engineering, reservoir modeling, artificial lift, offshore platform design, field development design and planning, production systems, system nodal analysis, field automation, reserve reporting, decision risk analysis, and project economics
• Business Management Training; American Management Institute
• Advanced courses in International Negotiations; at Baker, at Hartley-Brewer, and at Harvard Law School
• Offshore Fire Fighting Training, Texas A&M
• Offshore North Sea Survival Training, University of Southwestern Louisiana

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

• Society of Petroleum Engineers
• Association of International Petroleum Negotiators
• American Petroleum Institute
• Houston Geological Society
• Houston Gas Processors Association
• Association of Energy Service Companies

CIVIC ASSOCIATIONS

• Midtown Management District, Houston, State-chartered redevelopment taxing district, Secretary

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