Laurence Roe (B.Sc Geophysics) is a petroleum professional with over 39 years industry experience in Australian, US and other international projects.
He commenced his career with Santos Limited, later taking a senior technical position with Magellan Petroleum Australia Limited, where he was later appointed Exploration Manager. While with Magellan, he had substantial involvement with US and other international projects. In 1997, he left Magellan to start a consulting practice, providing services for a number of Australian exploration and production companies. In 2001, Mr Roe joined Bounty Oil & Gas NL as Exploration Manager, responsible for its portfolio of Australian and international acreage. He was later appointed as Managing Director.
Mr Roe was a co-founder of ASX-listed Target Energy Limited in 2006. The company worked exclusively in the US, with numerous oil and gas discoveries in the Texas and Louisiana Gulf coasts between 2007 and 2010, after which it focused on the Permian Basin in West Texas and where it continued to drill successful oil and gas wells. He was the company’s Managing Director from its inception until his resignation in early 2019.
In addition to the US, his experience encompasses most Australian sedimentary basins, as well as New Zealand, Mauritania, Tanzania, Canada, Indonesia, Belize and Argentina.
Mr Roe was a director of Target Energy until February 2019. He has no other listed company directorships and has not held any other listed company directorships in the last three years.
Mr Roe joined Winchester Energy as Non-Executive Chairman on 1st September 2019.