Oil & Gas Specialist

Dr Morandi is an oil and gas consultant to the Transcontinental Group. The groups Chairman, Tony Trevisan , and Dr Morandi were jointly responsible for the Ombrina Mare oil discovery on the Adriatic whilst both executive directors of Mediterranean Oil and Gas Ltd.

Dr Morandi has 37 years experience in oil and gas geophysics, exploration development, product operations and E&P Business management, and extensive experience in dealing with E&P in Italy and in the Mediterranean area.

Dr Morandi’s experience includes Managing Director and General Manager roles at Rockhopper Italia SpA, roles at ENI, Coparex, ELF, Enterprise Oil and Shell Italia E&P, and four years as Geophysical and Business Advisor to Shell International E&P at EPTS Centre of Excellence in The Hague.

From 1997 to 2003, he was a lecturer of Applied Seismology – Basilicata University in Italy. Since 2002 he has been a board member of the Italian National Upstream Association.

Minerals & Resources - Geochem Specialist

Russell Birrell is a geologist with 41 years of global multi-commodity mineral exploration and research and development experience. He has worked with numerous Australian and international mining houses and government research bodies exploring across 40 countries. He has a successful record of multi-commodity discovery within a number of mineralization settings and terrains including gold, copper-lead-zinc, tin, tantalum, lithium and manganese. Russell has been working on the development of ionic soil geochemistry analysis since the 1990’s. Russell has authored/co-authored numerous company reports, R&D reports, and published scientific papers as well as presenting to senior management, company shareholders, and international scientific conferences and industry conventions.

Minerals & Resources - Geological Specialist

Dr Barnes has 35 years of experience in over 52 countries in a wide variety of commodities and has over 26 years experience in undertaking bank due diligence studies for the majority of the major resource lending institutions. Dr Barnes co-founded Resource Service Group (subsequently RSG Global) in 1986. In 2004, he joined Dundee Precious Metals Inc. and was responsible for their worldwide exploration activities, project acquisition and investment due diligence. Following this, Dr Barnes was responsible for all technical aspects including exploration, project management, development, and management of Preliminary Economic Assessment (PEA) studies and due diligence for various companies as a specialist consultant. Dr Barnes has extensive experience in due diligence studies, company and project reviews for major global resource lending institutions and mining companies located throughout the world.

Chairman

Over a period of more than 30 years, Anthony Trevisan has played a pivotal role in a wide range of corporate and commercial scenarios – including substantial equity and debt financing, mergers and acquisitions, the restructuring of industrial, petroleum and mineral resources-based public companies, and the establishment of significant and successful businesses.

Mr Trevisan has extensive experience in acquisitions and the establishment of commercial operations, together with raising and structuring financial instruments to fund the development of a number of significant projects both in Australia and overseas. He has been responsible for public offerings and the floating of companies with a combined value of more than $1 billion on the Australian Stock Exchange and other major global exchanges.

A highly experienced and respected business figure, Mr Trevisan has held senior executive positions in companies with a wide range of petroleum, mining, industrial and high technology interests, including Arabex Petroleum NL (Rubiales Petroleum Discovery), Callina NL (petroleum work-over project in Russia, Komi, Oil Field), Trident Petroleum Ltd (joint venture with Conoco, now Conoco Phillips in Papua New Guinea), Continental Goldfields Ltd, Aqua Vital (Australia) Ltd (now owned by Coca Cola), Cable Televisions Services Ltd (now part of Foxtel), Atlas Pacific Ltd and Mediterranean Oil & Gas  plc.

He has also been responsible for successfully negotiating joint venture agreements with major corporations including BHP, Phillips. EcoPetrol and Mannai Qatar.

One of Western Australia’s most enduring and successful business figures, Tony Trevisan has played a key role in the acquisition and development of quality residential, retail and commercial property in WA, Queensland and Victoria over a 35-year period.

In the early 1980s, Tony introduced Target supermarket and discount department stores to WA and was instrumental in the development of major shopping centres in areas including Kelmscott, Mount Hawthorn, Balga and Girrawheen. Other significant developments included the now-named Midland Gate Shopping Centre in WA, the redevelopment of the Hoffnung site in the Brisbane CBD and a substantial industrial project in Victoria.

In 1990, the Transcontinental Group (now known as Tribis) acquired the Roy Weston Real Estate Group. Before divesting the Group in 2005, Tony was responsible for growing it into WA’s largest real estate company, with more than 60 offices around the State.

Tony successfully navigated all businesses under his management through both the 1987 stock market crash and the global financial crisis of 2007-2008.

The Transcontinental Group he founded in 1980 has established and managed more than 20 public companies listed on stock exchanges around the world – together with a variety of private companies – which are involved in the oil and gas and mining sectors, together with property development and investment.

As Chairman of TRG Properties, the property division of the Transcontinental Group, Tony has been the driving force behind the successful development of significant residential and commercial projects in WA and Victoria.