Dr McCarthy has onshore and offshore experience gained in UK, Australia and India working for independent and large multinational companies. He has worked as an independent consultant and for Cairn Energy PLC (UK) responsible for the operating subsidiary in India until 2002 when he returned to Australia. From 1996 to 2000, Dr McCarthy was based in India with Command Petroleum India Ltd (“Command”) and with Cairn Energy India Pty Ltd (“Cairn”) after Command merged with Cairn in 1997. Until 1995, he spent 14 years with Marathon Oil Corporation working in the North Sea and based in the United Kingdom, working on the North West Shelf of Western Australia and in the Timor Sea based out of Perth, Western Australia.