APPEA 2024 Conference and Exhibition

Mr Riddle has more than 28 years’ experience in the upstream oil and gas industry.

He has served as the Managing Director and CEO of Tamboran Resources Corporation for over a decade. Under his leadership Tamboran has grown from a 25% working interest holder in one Beetaloo Basin permit to a Company that currently controls 1.9 million net acres, having a material interest or operating 90% of the Beetaloo Basin. He has led multiple partnerships, strategic transactions, and joint ventures with various stakeholders such as Santos Limited, APA Group, Origin Energy, Formentera Partners, Helmrich & Payne and has commercial discussions ongoing with several of the largest gas customers in Australia and Asia-Pacific.

Prior to joining Tamboran, he served as Vice President, Commercial and Strategic Planning at Cobalt International Energy, where he worked closely with executive management in the initial evaluation and implementation of the exploration growth strategy in the Gulf of Mexico and West Africa, playing an instrumental role in Cobalt’s $1 billion initial public offering in 2009 and subsequent $3 billion capital raising in 2010 and 2011.

Prior to his position with Cobalt, Mr Riddle served in various management positions including business development, commercial and strategic planning with Unocal Corporation and Murphy Oil Corporation. In these roles, he was involved in the development and implementation of each company’s new business and LNG growth strategies in Southeast Asia and Australia. Prior to Unocal Corporation, Mr Riddle was a senior associate with Andersen Consulting, serving upstream exploration and production clients on strategy and performance improvement engagements.

Mr Riddle began his career in 1997 as a senior reservoir engineer with ExxonMobil, serving various assignments focused on upstream oil and gas operations in the Gulf of Mexico.

Mr Riddle holds a Bachelor of Science with Honors in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago.

Mr Riddle is currently on the Board of Directors on the Australian Energy Producers and is the Chairperson for the Greenhouse & Energy Policy Committee for Australian Energy Producers.

Presentation details

Plenary 5 Keynote Panel: Exploring new frontiers
Thursday 23 May 2024
2:30pm – 4:15pm