Key Personnel

Uno Makotsvana is a highly experienced CFO with more than 25 years of experience across resources, infrastructure and government services sectors specialising in commercial management and strategy, corporate finance, funding and investor relations. Uno commenced his career at Deloitte, progressing into senior roles in the professional services space before transitioning into a commercial finance role in a large ASX listed company. Uno previously served as CFO in both public and private companies including Capital Limited, a UK Listed mining services company - a role he held for three and a half years from 2012. He has held other senior leadership roles with both Australian and International organisations. Uno has a Bachelor of Accounting from the University of South Africa, a Graduate Diploma in Business Administration from the Alliance Manchester Business School (UK) and is a Chartered Accountant (Australia and New Zealand).

Errol Johnstone has had a distinguished international career with ExxonMobil over 29 years in a variety of exploration and appraisal roles, with particular emphasis on new ventures, basin analysis and new play generation. Mr Johnstone is one of the industry’s experts in Structural Geology, Regional Geologic synthesis, Sequence Stratigraphy and 2D/3D Seismic Interpretation. He has extensive experience working on multi-disciplinary taskforce studies working with Russian, Japanese, Malaysian and Indonesian geoscientists and has also been active in teaching structural geology field schools and mentoring new geoscience staff.

With experience throughout most of the Australian and Far East basins including Russia, Mr Johnstone's multidisciplinary skills in geoscience integration generated many new exploration play initiatives resulting in several significant discoveries. 

Dean Johnstone is a geoscientist with over 40 years industry experience in oil and gas exploration, development and production. Over his earlier career with ExxonMobil and Delhi Petroleum, he has worked in a variety of lead technical roles with particular emphasis on Structural Geology, New Ventures, well site operations, field development/appraisal and mature field opportunity generation.  As well as working on a variety of projects within Australia and SE Asia, Dean had a long technical association with ExxonMobil’s activities in Papua New Guinea from Farm-in, through early appraisal and exploration drilling to FEED studies for the PNG Gas Project and LNG. In particular, the drilling of the Hide-3 and 4 wells established the presence of a multi TCF gas resource which became the foundation for the PNG LNG Project. This was followed by the successful drilling of the Moran oil discovery in 1998. More recently he was ExxonMobil’s Structural Geology Advisor for Canada, working in a wide range of geological settings which included Western Canada Basin Production assets and arctic exploration in the Beaufort Sea. On returning to Australia, Dean was involved in basin analysis for new Venture opportunities within SE Asia. Dean joined Melbana in 2011 and has worked on a wide range of opportunities within Australia, Cuba, Indonesia, Malaysia and New Zealand, focussing on New Ventures and active drilling programs.

Dr. Rafael Tenreyro has over 40 years of experience in the Cuban oil industry, working in a exploration projects which lead to the discovery, evaluation and development of 14 oil fields. Most recently, he was the Exploration Director for Cupet (National Oil Company of Cuba) leading all exploration programs by Cupet and participating in exploration projects by foreign companies of Production Sharing Contracts. As well as his native Spanish, he is fluent in English, Russian and French.