Global New Ventures, Development, Engineering, Turnaround Leader

Harald E. Lechner

503-***-**** **** Richmond Ave, Houston TX 77063

*******.******@*****.***

Executive Vice President - Upstream Oil & Gas

Global New Ventures, Development and Turnaround Leader(

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Identify & monetize Business Opp's, build Stars; develop & execute Mega

Projects; implement best-practice Strategy & Opp's Evaluation, Risk &

Portfolio Mngt systems; crystallize key field-life Value Drivers; develop

top Geo-tech & Commercial Solutions; fortify Team Productivity & Workflow

Efficiency; build best-practice Mngt Control Loops; negotiate prioritized &

sustainable Win-win Outcomes; build Stakeholder Alignment; will relocate

with spouse

. Impressive global & multidisciplinary E&P progression - attained expert

operations/ RE/ PE/ drilling skills, economics/ commercial/ BD/ project

mngt expertise plus senior executive management competencies

. Cultural diversity - capitalized on experience with varied company

cultures, ethnic/ cultural settings, different business models and

Germanic, Anglo-Saxon, S-Asian, Arabic, Eurasian work environments

. Trans-global oil & gas career - AUT, PAK, AUS, MRT, KEN, KWT, IDN, EGY,

UKR, LVA, RUS, GCC

. PhD Petroleum Engineering (Leoben, AUT), M.Sc. Financial Mgt (London),

MBA (Vienna)

. Fluent German [pic] English [pic] French [pic] basic Arabic [pic]

. Poised, decisive, professional leader - collaborative, empathetic, open &

360( communicator; inspiring with top ethical standards; enthusiastic

initiator & decisive closer; can-do problem solver/ entrepreneur

. Respected negotiator & executive - authentic, dependable, efficient,

influential, diplomatic, prioritizing

Professional, New Ventures, Development & Executive Leadership Highlights

( $77mln turnaround and growth of two successive KEC oil & gas

business units, Indonesia and Eurasia

( Start-up and development of Optima Consulting into a highly

profitable $3.5mln business in Middle East

( Technical & commercial evaluation plus portfolio management of

over 100 international E&P assets

( P/L resp. for $500mln Sawan 2Tcf, 340MMscfd gas field

monetization, development & project implementation

( Negotiated successfully three large Gas Sales & Pricing Agreements in

Pakistan, totaling over 500MMscfd

( Built long-term $400mln pa commercial exploration strategy and

portfolio management system for Woodside

( Corp Systems: Comparative Risks & Economics of E&P fiscal regimes;

activity-based costing & value-add in O&G

Executive Experience & Performance

Founder & CEO, PetroCAMENA (relocated to AUT then KWT for private

business) AUT, KWT, 2012 - now

Petro-CAMENA, a boutique Kuwait upstream advisory, empowers CentralAsia-

MiddleEast-NorthAfrican O&G firms with best-in-class strategy, geo-

technical, field development & exploitation and intelligent field

consulting

VP Eurasia, Kuwait Energy (and Chairman Balin Energy) KWT,

UKR, RUS, LVA Jan '10 - Jan'11

Tasked with "turn-around & grow KEC's E&P BUs Ukraine, Russia and Balin

Energy Latvia" - create new business plans, implement state-of-art 3D,

reservoir modeling, field appraisal, drilling & W/O programs, consolidate

field ops, recruit new management, reorganize sales; plan & implement Balin

Energy exploration offshore Latvia. 2010 WP&B: 2,500boepd; capex $52mln,

opex $12mln, profit $1.6mln; 200 staff, 2P 31MMboe; (left ME due to private

business

Tony Harrison, VP Dvmnt: "I found Harald extremely competent both as a

highly experienced Petr Eng and as a senior manager. He is a good

organizer, a decisive manager and is very strong technically - a powerful

combination of skills"

VP Acquisitions, Kuwait Energy (and Director Concorde PLC)

Kuwait, Egypt Apr '09 - Dec '09

Hand-picked by CEO to "manage E&P asset acquisition process and key BD

projects in GCC area" - evaluated 40+ acquisition opp's in MENA,

prepared and negotiated takeover of Calvalley (Yemen), acquired 12MMbls 2P

in Russia, conducted technical & commercial DD on Safed Koh (Pak);

progressed key BD projects in Iran (Bahregansar gas offshore, Mond heavy

oil), in Egypt (wet gas plant in GoS), and Iraq (Siba gas field)

Abdulaziz Alkhowaiter, VP GCC: "Harald's work, experience & knowledge of

upstream is impressive and covers a wide range. For evaluating oil or gas

fields Harald would be my first choice to analyze & interpret their

technical & economic potential"

Harald E. Lechner, EVP

503-***-**** 8162 Richmond Ave, Houston TX 77063

*******.******@*****.***

President KEC Indonesia, Kuwait Energy (hired by my former Optima client)

Indonesia Jan '08 - Mar '09

Tasked with "consolidate & grow KEC's E&P business in Indonesia" -

identified, evaluated, negotiated/ tendered 30+ acquisition opp's in SE-

Asia, divested Bawean PSC; executed field redevelopment/ production

enhancement ARD fields, Sumatra (TAC w/ Pertamina), incl 3D

reinterpretation, attic & in-fill drilling, well W/O & stimulations, A/L

optimization (2008 Budget: 2,000boepd; capex $5mln, opex $8mln, profit

$7mln; 2P 3MMboe

GM & Principal Consultant, Optima (offered via my former Woodside

Director) Kuwait Jan '06 - Dec-'07

Tasked by Australian firms RISC, AWT, Genesis "start-up & built integrated

E&P consulting business in Kuwait and GCC" - year 2 results included 6

CSAs, 1200 man days consulting worth $3.5mln, NPAT $0.5mln. Executed all

marketing, BD, proposals, contracting, job delivery. Principal Consultant

for commercial, economics, strategic, PE & FDP component of Optima's

consulting jobs.

Principal Consultant, RISC (head office training for the GM Optima job)

Australia Sept '05 -Dec '05

Conducted E&P asset evaluations & DD work - field development planning,

costing, commercial, economics

Exp & Dev Manager Mauritania, Woodside Mauritania Dec '04 -Aug '05

Represented Woodside in technical, commercial, PSC matters vis- -vis Gvmnt

and NOC for its Mauritanian exploration & development projects (Chinguetti

deep water oil development, Tiof, Banda & Tevet appraisals, exploration

work in 6 offshore blocks). Successfully negotiated E&P permits in onshore

Taoudeni basin.

Head Engineering & Economics, Woodside (migration to Australia)

Australia Oct '02 - Nov '04

Managed all economics, commercial, conceptual FDPing, reservoir

engineering, cost engineering aspects for Woodside's Australian and

international portfolio of new business opportunities ( Developed

commercial part of Woodside's 10-year A$400mln pa exploration strategy (

Successfully re-negotiated Kenya E&P permit terms

Agu Kantsler, Dir New Ventures: "Sound petroleum economist/business

analyst/business development leader; successfully evaluated numerous

domestic & international exploration and asset acquisition proposals"

Asset Manager Sawan Gas Field Development, OMV (Pakistan) Pakistan Oct

'99 -Jun'02

Led 2 Tcf Sawan gas development vigorously in only 2 yrs from discovery,

via appraisal, DOC, FDP, monetization, tendering, FID to project execution.

2-phase 340MMscfd project on time, within budget, exceeded deliverables.

Complete $500mln P&L responsibility, incl. monetization, GSA negotiations,

FDP, land acquisition, community, regulator & JV approvals, EPC pre-

qual'tion, tender issue/ evaluation/ negotiations, well construction, HSE,

HR

Tim Hargreaves, GM BHP: "Harald has sound commercial knowledge of gas

markets & regulatory system. He dealt with difficult negotiations in

diplomatic & intelligent way. His team, peers and gvmnt negotiators

acknowledge his contributions"

Commercial / Marketing Manager Miano Gas Field, OMV (Pakistan)

Pakistan Oct '97 - Sept '99

Ardently negotiated and closed 175 MMscfd Gas Sales/ Pricing, Gas

Processing, Tie-in Agreements for Miano field dev'mnt ( Successfully

delivered JV and regulator approvals for Miano FDP ( Co-ordinated

reservoir, drilling, petroleum & production engineering, gas plant FEED &

tendering and interfacing with JV and regulator.

Commercial / Economics Manager for Miano Gas Field, OMV (Pakistan)

Pakistan Jan '95 - Sept '97

Negotiated PCA amendment and Bridge-Loan Agreement. Co-ordinated petroleum

& gas-plant engineering and JV/ regulator approvals ( Completed feasibility

study 500 Bcf Miano sour-gas field, incl. supply to IPPs, fertilizer

plants, gas-utilities ( Conducted gas-market/ infrastructure studies,

economics of assets/ projects/ prospects

Tertiary Education

. University of London, SOAS M.Sc. in Financial Management

. Mining University Leoben, Austria PhD Petr Eng - Comparative Risks &

Economics of PSAs/ Tax Regimes

. Technical University Vienna, Austria MBA

. Mining University Leoben, Austria B.Sc. & M.Sc. Petroleum Engineering

Harald E. Lechner, EVP

503-***-**** 8162 Richmond Ave, Houston TX 77063

*******.******@*****.***

Professional & Other Experience

Entrepreneur - Real Estate and Hospitality Australia, Indonesia

Petroleum Economist, OMV - E&P Austria

Reservoir Engineer, OMV - Oil & Gas Operations Austria

Reservoir Engineer, OMV - GAS Austria

Production Engineer, OMV - Oil & Gas Operations Austria

Workover Engineer, OMV - Service Austria

Production Engineer, OMV - Oil Operations Austria

Affiliations, Work Permits, Courses

Member Society of Petroleum Engineers; Certified Petroleum Engineer by

Institution of Engineers, Australia

LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/haraldlechner/

Work Permits: EU, Australia/NZ, Indonesia and USA (in progress); GCC

upon application

Industry Courses: over 300 days Engineering, Business, Finance,

Management, Negotiations, Leadership & HSSE

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