John Ellice-Flint is a prominent Australian businessman, petroleum geologist and executive director of

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Career

Ellice-Flint managed global exploration for US petroleum house

Unocal Union Oil Company of California, and its holding company Unocal Corporation, together known as Unocal was a major petroleum explorer and marketer in the late 19th century, through the 20th century, and into the early 21st century. It was headqu ...

(since merged with

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) prior to his appointment as managing director of Australian oil and gas company

Santos Limited Santos Ltd. (South Australia and Northern Territory Oil Search) is an Australian oil and gas exploration and production company, with its headquarters in Adelaide, South Australia. It owns liquefied natural gas (LNG), pipeline gas, and oil asse ...

in 2000. He then lead Santos' establishment of a coal seam gas portfolio in

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, Australia which underpinned Santos' development of a

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plant on Curtis Island near

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. Ellice-Flint had been inspired by developments he had seen in Alaska while working for Unocal. Ellice-Flint believes that gas offers a safer alternative to coal or nuclear power generation with respect to reducing the impacts of climate change. Ellice-Flint left Santos in 2008 having assisted its growth by more than $4 billion in value. He remained a shareholder in the company, and continued to show support for unconventional gas developments. He joined coal seam gas exploration company Blue Energy as an executive director in 2012 after a four-year absence from the oil gas industry. Ellice-Flint is also a former director of South Australian aquaculture company

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, which fishes and ranches

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and

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for export sale.

Memberships

Ellice-Flint is a former member of the Council of the

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. He was also the chair of the board of the

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from 2002 until 2011.

Education

Ellice-Flint holds a Bachelor of Science (Geology) degree with Honours from

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References

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