Tor McCaul has over 30 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. He graduated in Petroleum Engineering from UNSW in 1987 and spent the next 9 years working with operating companies in development and production roles on projects in Queensland, New Zealand and PNG, including a secondment to Chevron Niugini. He spent the following 11 years in Asia (Karachi, Jakarta, Chennai and Delhi) in technical, finance, commercial and management roles. At VICO Indonesia (a BP-ENI JV), he was their LNG contract manager on the 23 million-tonne-per-annum Bontang LNG project. In India, he was Cairn plc’s head of commercial for the Indian business. He became managing director of Comet Ridge in 2009. Mr McCaul was the chair for the Queensland Section of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and was also previously on the advisory committee for the Centre for Petroleum Engineering at UNSW. He was the 2013 Queensland Petroleum Exploration Association (QUPEX) President and in November 2018, Mr McCaul was elected to the board of APPEA (the Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association).
