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Peter Cockcroft
Born
Peter John William Cockcroft
Nationality
Australian
Occupation
Board of Directors, Executive Coach, and Global Risk Expert
Yearsactive
2005-present
Peter CockcroftFRS,FRGS is an Australian Petroleum geologist, researcher and oil industry executive. He is the son of author and Logie Awards winner John Cockcroft and spent most of his early life at Gosford, North of Sydney, Australia.
Since beginning work in the oil and gas sector, Cockcroft has made oil discoveries in Thailand and Philippines, was involved in oilfield developments in Indonesia. He also undertook the development of the first combined gas field and independent power project in South East Asia (Sengkang).[2][3]
During the 1970s, Peter worked in Australia, Indonesia, Louisiana, and USA.
In 1984, Cockcroft joined Pertamina, a national oil company of Indonesia where he served as an analyst on the initial LNG contracts to Korea in the early 1980s and was in charge of three different domestic gas agreements in Indonesia. [4] He also held technical positions from development geologist to operations manager for a number of oil and gas companies including Kodeco Energy Co., Petromer Trend Corporation, Husky Energy, Camera, Asamera Oil, and Husky.
In 1992, he became Operations Manager of the Joint Venture Company between Pertamina and Bow Valley (Canada) and brought the very successful Air Serdang oilfield onstream. Before that, he served as the President of Fletcher Challenge Philippines and Managing Director of Petrocorp (Thailand Limited).
In 1993, Cockcroft joined as the president of Energy Equity (Asia) where he developed Sengkang combined gas/power field (1 TCF) and power project (135MW) in South Sulawesi, Indonesia.
From 1995 to 1999, he served as the Country Manager of BHP Petroleum and has overseen activities of BHP Petroleum in Indonesia, culminating in the development of the Elang Kakatua oilfield and the Bayu-Undan gas field.
In 1999, he took over as the Managing Director of Premier-Shell Pakistan Ltd, a company to operate in Pakistan on behalf of Premier Oil and Shell in Pakistan upstream oil and gas.
In 2002, Cockcroft was appointed as the energy advisor to the president of Timor-Leste and worked with the government on implementing energy policy until 2009.[5][6][7] He also served as an advisor to the CEO of Premier Oil and held position of managing director of Premier & Shell Pakistan B.V. from 1999 to 2001.[8]
Cockcroft has overseen exploration and production projects in West Africa, Yemen, Australia, Indonesia, France, India and the United States being Board Directors of public companies. He was a founding director of Kuwait Energy plc, a leading private oil company in the Middle East. He served as the chairman of Baraka Petroleum from 2005 to 2007.[11] In 2008, he joined the board of the directors of Blue Energy Limited, and served as the chairman of the company until 2012.[12][13][14][15] He was also the managing director of European Gas Limited from 2010 to 2011[16][17] and served on the board of directors of NuEnergy Gas Limited, Kairiki Energy and ERC Equipoise.[9]
Cockcroft has advised the Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX), and was on the board of advisers of Proteus Energy, a company specializing in marginal field developments in California, from 2007 to 2013.
In 2014, Cockcroft was appointed as a lecturer at Edinburgh Business School, where he taught MBA courses on the negotiation of international deals, risk management, as well as oil and gas reserves and valuation.
Peter has had a long association with Timor-Leste, first traveling with his father during Portuguese times (reference: Fernandes, Cleary). As Indonesia Country Manager for BHP, the substantial Australian resource company, from 1995 until 1998, he visited Timor-Leste every month for three years because of the BHP-led oil and gas discoveries in the Timor Sea (the Timor "Gap"), then under Indonesian control.
The leader of the Timorese freedom movement, Xanana Gusmao, was in Cipinang Prison in Jakarta, serving a 20-year sentence. As the independence movement for Timor-Leste was becoming very heated, the attitude of the nearest neighbor, Australia, was critical.
On August 7, 1998, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer expressed opposition to Gusmao's release and denounced the Timorese leadership's call for a referendum on self-determination, declaring that it would lead to bloodshed. (reference:1 Beanland).
On August 16, 1998, Peter visited Gusmao in Cipinang Prison (reference: Kirsty Sword). Gusmao told Peter that a Timorese government would protect the rights granted to BHP and other companies under the controversial 1989 Timor Gap Treaty between Indonesia and Australia. (reference: Cleary, Fernandes, Taudevin). This meeting was leaked to the Australian press (allegedly by Nobel Peace Prize Winner Jose Ramos Horta) a few days later (David Jenkins, 'BHP Talks to Jailed Guerrilla Leader,' Sydney Morning Herald, August 20, 1998).
On August 19, the Australian Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer, for the first time, officially recognized Gusmao, urged Indonesia to release him.
Many believe that the Australian Government would not have changed its previous attitude of supporting Indonesia without Peter's intervention, rather than the Timorese Independence. Gusmao would not have been released (which he was in 1999), Independence would not have been Independence have occurred as quickly.
Timor-Leste gained Independence on May 20, 2002, with Xanana Gusmao as its first President.
Writings
In 2017, Cockcroft co-authored a book titled Successful Farmins and Farmouts: For International Oil & Gas Professionals.[18][19]
He has published over 30 technical papers and presented technical courses around the world in petroleum geology, marginal field development, reserves, and various commercial topics.[20]
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