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Mr. Hazledine was appointed to the Board from January 1, 2008. Mr. Hazledine is a New Zealander with 35 years experience in the international E&P industry. He spent 30 years with the Royal/Dutch Shell Group in Africa, the Middle East, New Zealand, Europe, and South America. He worked initially as a petrophysicist and production technologist, moving into operations engineering and management (including 10 years with Shell's New Zealand operating company, Shell Todd Oil Services, on the Maui and other Taranaki fields). He left Shell in 2004, to take up a senior management position with Vector Gas (formerly NGC), the principal gas distributor in the New Zealand market. He left this role in late 2007 to pursue a more diverse portfolio of opportunities.
Mr. Hazledine has a B.SC (Hons) in mineral technology from Otago University, in Dunedin, New Zealand. He is a member of the Institute of Directors in New Zealand. | 