Donald Moore
Chief Executive Officer

Board Members
The board exists to hold operations, capital administration and transition work to the same standard: named owners, documented decisions, no gap between report and reality.
It does not run the rig. It does not post a deposit. It sets the gates that both of those activities must pass: safety, integrity of records, and whether a transition project is engineering or stationery.
Committees cover audit and risk, HSE, and participation terms. Minutes are written so a later reviewer does not have to reconstruct intent. A board that cannot explain a no-vote is not governing.
Independent members exist to refuse a programme that cannot name its hold-points. Tenure in the industry is useful. Captivity to a date is not.
HSE reporting reaches the board without being edited into a green dashboard. A red gate stays red until evidence changes colour.
Capital and conscience in the same minute
Investor administration is not a side-hustle. The board sees how deposits are evidenced, how withdrawals are queued, and where a file is incomplete. Portal convenience never outranks verification.
Transition capital is treated with the same suspicion as a new well: resource, interconnection, offtake, then enthusiasm.
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Executive Vice President
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Sustainability Officer
Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer
Chief Safety and Risk Officer
Chief Information Officer
Chief Audit Officer
Chief Marketing Officer
Head of Real Estate
Chief Technology Officer
General Manager
Assistant General Manager
Project Manager
Account Manager
Corporate Secretary
LEADERSHIP AND GOVERNANCE
Petroleum & Energy Surges is guided by a Board of Directors and leadership team committed to responsible governance, ethical decision-making, and the long-term success of the business.
Our leaders bring experience from across operations, engineering, technology, finance, sustainability, risk, compliance, and global business. Together, they provide the direction and oversight needed to support sound decisions in a changing energy landscape.
Strong governance helps us remain focused on what matters: protecting people, serving customers, managing risk, creating value responsibly, and maintaining the trust of our stakeholders.
We believe effective leadership combines clear strategy with accountability. Our Board and officers work to ensure that our values are reflected in the way we operate, grow, and respond to future opportunities.
Experienced leadership, ethical governance, and responsible oversight form the foundation for sustainable progress.
OUR LEADERSHIP FOCUS
We set a clear course for sustainable growth, integrated energy solutions, and long-term value for customers, employees, and stakeholders.
We uphold high standards of integrity, transparency, compliance, and accountability across every level of the organization.
We guide the business with a focus on safety, quality, efficiency, and disciplined performance across our operations and services.
We identify and manage operational, financial, safety, and market risks so that the business remains prepared, resilient, and responsible.
We encourage technology, new ideas, and connected ways of working that help us respond to changing customer and energy-market needs.
We remain accountable to the people and communities connected to our business by communicating clearly and acting in their long-term interests.
Our leaders are committed to building a business that performs with purpose, acts with integrity, and creates lasting value for the future.
OUR LEADERSHIP
Guiding Petroleum & Energy Surges with experience, accountability, and a clear vision.
Strong governance for responsible growth and a more resilient energy future.

In practice
Decisions about offshore work are easier to keep honest when the water is in the window. The boardroom is not a retreat from operations. It is a place where operations can be refused.
Papers arrive with owners. Papers without owners are not discussed.
Capability notes
Independent oversight of strategy, capital discipline and the stop-work culture.
Drilling, field services and integrated campaigns — competence as a gate.
Portal administration, contracts and the file that matches the wallet.
ISO 45001 alignment, hold-points and environmental controls.
Interconnection, offtake and intensity reduction without abandoning reliability.
People who can say no when a gate has not been met.
Operators ask
Roles and duties are. Celebrity CVs are not a control. Competence is evidenced in minutes and in campaigns.
On a planned cycle, and whenever a gate fails that the executive cannot release alone.
No. It approves the standard. Units approve wells that fit the standard. Exceptions escalate.
Through the portal and administration. Direct lobbying of a director is not a process.

From the field
How energy companies actually work
Primary barrier is usually hydrostatic — the mud column. Secondary is mechanical — the BOP. If either is unproven, the bit does not turn.
Offshore is weather, marine spread and the stack. Onshore is access, water, pads and neighbours. Do not copy a jack-up plan onto a land pad.
A hold-point is a named gate with a criterion and an owner. ISO 45001 is the management-system language. A poster is not.
Solar on a producing location still needs isolations, lifting and SIMOPS. Reliability first. Intensity reduction second.
Investor administration uses the same idea as well control: nothing posts without evidence.
Roads, noise, local workforce and grievance routes belong in the mobilisation pack.

Safety as an operating condition
P&ES treats competence, barriers, SIMOPS and return-to-service as hold-points. Digital tracking names who released the step. Stop-work is not insubordination.
The energy system
Upstream
Exploration, appraisal and development are different jobs. The abandonment plan should be visible before the first joint.
Plant
Inspection planning is production support, not a compliance tax.
Power
Interconnection and offtake decide whether a plant is an asset or a stranded slide.
People
Tickets have dates. A frozen crew list is a hold-point. A CV is a biography.

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