OUR TEAM

Business Development Director

(Honours) Class 1 in Chemical Engineering, University of Leeds, United Kingdom 1980
Age: 66
Working Experience:
47 years’ experience in the oil and gas industry, both in the services, and exploration and production sectors.
Mark began his career with BP Exploration in 1980, as a Production and Commissioning Engineer before taking on other roles managing advanced production technology research projects, leading field development activities and assisting in the development of BP’s corporate plans and strategy.
In 1989, Mark joined BHP Petroleum and held positions including Well Services Supervisor, Production Manager and thereafter, as General Manager for BHP Petroleum’s Northern Australia Operations. His responsibilities included drilling, subsea well completion, overseeing production from three Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) production facilities and the management of the Darwin office and logistics base.
In 1997, Mark founded an oil and gas service company, Upstream Petroleum, with a colleague from BHP Petroleum. Upstream Petroleum became the dominant provider of operations, maintenance services and marginal field development solutions to the Australian oil and gas industry. The company grew rapidly to employ over 400 employees with offices in Darwin, Perth, Melbourne and Brisbane and an oil and gas service and logistics centre in Darwin.
In 2007, subsequent to the trade sale of Upstream Petroleum to the AGR Group ASA of Norway, the AGR Group sought Mark’s assistance to establish the company’s office in Kuala Lumpur, a first step by the company into the South East Asia region. Mark served as AGR’s Managing Director in Asia Pacific for two years before returning to Australia as an independent consultant in 2009. After two years of independent consultancy work, in February 2011, Mark joined ASX-listed Cue Energy Resource Ltd as Chief Executive Officer.
In 2013 Mark joined Hibiscus Petroleum based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia as Chief Business Development Officer. In this role, as part of the executive leadership team, he assisted in the growth of this newly listed oil and gas company through the identification and acquisition of oil and gas assets for the company. Mark was appointed Chief Operating Officer in 2018 and CEO of the UK business Anasuria Hibiscus UK in 2019. Mark led the UK business until November 2022