The Team
MANAGING DIRECTOR DR TIM A. MOORE
Since 2010 Tim has been the Managing Director of Cipher Consulting Pty Ltd, specialising in the understanding of, and exploration for, organic-rich sediments, including coal, coalbed methane and shale gas. He holds the positions of Adjunct Associate Professor at the School of Earth, Environmental and Biological Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Australia (since March 2016) and as Distinguished Visiting Professor at China University of Mining and Technology (since January 2018)…
Associates
DR ROMAN C. PAUSCH
Dr Roman Pausch has over 30 years of field and laboratory experience in measuring gas of all types and at all pressures. Most of his field experience has been in remote parts of the world including Thailand, Myanmar, Colombia, Peru as well as in the US and Germany. Many of the field locations, such as deserts and rainforests…
PETER ROLES
Peter has over 20 years of experience in conventional and unconventional oil and gas exploration and development. He has worked in Australia, Indonesia, China, Vietnam, Scotland, Europe and India. Currently Peter is an independent consultant specialising in acquisition and due diligence evaluations…

TAN EE
Tan Ee is a experienced corporate finance professional within the energy industry with 18 years of strategic and corporate development experience. He was an investment analyst with BP covering the commercial development and analysis of gas and power developments…

RYAN MORRIS – HYDROGEOLOGIST
Ryan is currently Director of RDMHydro, which provides hydrogeological advice to the mining and petroleum industry. He is also Senior Hydrogeologist at Origin Energy (since 2009) for its coal seam gas (CSG) and shale developments where he is responsible for all aspects of groundwater management and produced water management…

MS.CAROL I. BUTLAND
Carol Butland has a Masters degree in geology from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand where she specialised in coalbed methane. Her thesis, and subsequent international publication, was the first country-wide assessment of coalbed methane properties in New Zealand…

DR ROMEO M. FLORES
Romeo Flores was a Research Scientist at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) assessing coal, coalbed methane (CBM), and unconventional gas resources in conterminous United States (U.S.) and Alaska from 1975-2010. He was project chief and group leader managing estimation of coal and CBM reserves in Appalachian Basin, Rocky Mountains and Great Plains coal basins, and in Alaska North Slope, central, and southern coal provinces…

DR CHAIRUL NAS
Dr Chairul Nas graduated from Geology Department ITB (Institute Teknologi Bandung), and has a Masters and PhD in Coal Geology (1994) from Wollongong University NSW Australia…

MR CHRIS M. NELSON
Chris Nelson is an engineering geologist with 10 years of experience in measurement of coal seam gas. Chris’s MSc was an investigation of the geotechnical characteristics of West Coast coal measures in New Zealand. He then worked as an engineering geologist for Worleys in Auckland, New Zealand…

MR CARLOS GALCERAN
Carlos is a GIS specialist with more than 15 years of experience in the design and implementation of spatial data structures and the analysis of spatial data. Previously he worked for more than 15 years as a geologist for a variety of industries, including oil and gas, mining and environmental. Carlos holds a M.Sc. in Geology (1988) and a M.Sc. in GIS (2005).

DR JANE C. SHEARER
Jane is a trained coal geologist with international consulting experience and 18 years experience in geology. She has run her own consultancy for the last 8 years. resolutionz consulting offers offers a range of services from developing R&D strategies and accessing funding to sedimentary basin analysi-…

DR XINGJIN WANG
Xingjin Wang has 20 years international experience in tight gas and CBM exploration and production applications…

DR SADIQ J. ZARROUK
Extended field and research experience in non-conventional (Coalbed methane (CBM) and geothermal) reservoir engineering, with ten years experience in CBM Reservoir Engineering including…

LEON HENNESSY
With a career spanning over 15 years in the Drilling Industry Leon has pushed the forefront of implementing developments to Coal Bed Methane and Coal Mine Methane drilling technologies and methodologies…

ALAN MOURGUES
Alan at moREc is a seasoned Reservoir Engineer with over twenty years of international Oil & Gas industry experience across the five continents. Technical excellence, business acumen, and exceptional communication skills are key element…