Dr Staley has more than 40 years’ management and technical experience in the European, African and Asian oil, gas and power sectors, including with Conoco and BP. More recently Dr Staley was founding Managing Director of upstream start-ups Upland Resources Ltd, Fastnet Oil & Gas plc and Independent Resources plc and a Non-Executive Director of Cove Energy plc. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society, holds a BSc (Hons.) in Geophysics from Edinburgh University, a PhD in Petroleum Geology from Sheffield University and an MBA from Warwick University.
Dr Staley has over 40 years' wide-ranging management, technical and commercial experience in the international oil, gas and power sectors. He was until October 2019 the CEO and a director of Upland Resources Limited, a London-listed (Standard Listing) oil & gas company which he co-founded, currently with assets in Sarawak and onshore and offshore UK. He is a non-executive director of 88 Energy Limited, an Australian oil & gas company with assets onshore Alaska. 88 Energy has a dual listing on the ASX and AIM. Dr Staley also co-founded and brought to the AIM market Fastnet Oil & Gas plc (where he was the founding CEO) and Independent Resources plc (where he was the founding managing director). He was also both a technical consultant to, and non-executive director of, Cove Energy plc – the highly successful East Africa focused explorer. Dr Staley is owner and founder of Derwent Resources Limited, an upstream consultancy advising on oil and gas opportunities. Prior to this he has worked for companies including Cinergy Corp. and Conoco.
He holds a BSc (Hons.) in geophysics from Edinburgh University, a PhD in petroleum geology from Sheffield University and an MBA from Warwick University. He is a fellow of the Geological Society and a member of the European Association of Geoscientists & Engineers, the Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain and The Arctic Club.
