Directors' Profiles

Chris Carty
Technical Director
BSc(Hon) GAICD

Mr Carty joined Great Artesian in 2005 as Exploration Manager. He has wide experience of the domestic and international upstream oil industry. Following a period with Esso Australia supervising seismic acquisition activities in Australia, Papua New Guinea, Thailand and Vietnam, he joined Mobil Oil in the USA and was involved in exploring areas in West Texas and the Gulf of Mexico. Since returning to Australia in 1992, he has held senior exploration and management positions with Bridge Oil, Capital Energy, Stirling Resources and Eastern Star Gas and has consulted to a number of other companies included New Zealand Oil and Gas and Santos. He has a BSc(Hon) and is a member of the Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists, the Society of Exploration Geophysicists and the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia.