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LEADERSHIP TEAM

Dr Stuart Lake

Chief Operating Officer

International experience spanning 38 years in a wide variety of roles in the energy sector. Having worked in over 20 countries in Exploration and Production in challenging situations.

Stuart is a proven oil finder, who has led teams to an 85% success rate. A former Shell executive ( 19 years) and having worked for Apache and Hess ( 9 years) Stuart expertise is in all aspects of subsurface/surface evaluation and risk analysis.

He has extensive experience in development plans, peer reviews and accelerated appraisal and development campaigns. In many assets, he turned exploration discoveries into early production success. He challenges conventional wisdom and brings real change and personal commitment to the role.

Filomeno DeAndrade -Country Manager/Non-Executive Director

Filomeno DeAndrade

Country Manager

Mr Filomeno DeAndrade has extensive international experience of over 40 years in engineering, management and environment roles. 

Filomeno is the former President of the Timorese Australian Council, former Vice President of Timorese Council in Portugal, former Head of Infrastructure, United Nations Transitional Administration of East Timor responsible for public infrastructure and former Representative of the Cabinet Member for Infrastructure. 

Filomeno was born in Timor-Leste. Filomeno has represented Timor Resources in Timor-Leste since 2016, living and working in the contract area.

Luis-Pereira Operations Manager

Luis Pereira

Operations Manager

An Operations leader, with strong technical and managerial experience in the oil and gas industry. He successfully designed and planned the Greater Western Flank 2 field (8 wells) in Western Australia from screening phase to a detailed design phase.  

He designed and delivered the multilateral Vincent phase 3 (3 multilateral wells) aspects in drilling engineering Western Australia. He is a team focused expert who can manage complex contracts, labourers and large teams. 

Having worked at Timor Resources managing the execution of the seismic program in 2019 and all civil construction for the well pads. Holding a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering. Luis managed the seismic contract in Timor-Leste with 550 workers, on time and on budget.