Management

Proven explorers

Over the past 40 years, the Athena management team has been involved in the discovery of over 10 billion barrels of oil equivalent across the UKCS and West Africa.

These discoveries include:

  • Tortue
  • Tolmount
  • Western Isles
  • Jubilee
  • Bir Allah
  • Yakaar
  • Diever West
  • Cormorant East
  • Platypus
  • Causeway
  • Arran
  • Pelican
  • Ceiba
  • West Don

Proven dealmakers

Beyond proven exploration expertise, management have extensive experience in dealmaking in the E&P space.

Particular successes include involvement in:

  • Ujung Pangkah gas swap for Hudson oil $200m gain
  • Swapped Mauritania discoveries for North Sea gas $150m gain.
  • Bought 40% equity in Babbage field for £1 & drilled successful appraisal well unlocking development
  • Farmed out Causeway block in UK NNS realising $40MM pre-development
  • Purchased Dyas equity in onshore Netherlands & drilled Diever West discovery
  • Farm-ins of Anadarko/BP/Shell/Chevron/Petronas, many on a promoted basis into KOS exp. & dev. portfolio
  • World leading FPSO development of Ceiba & Jubilee discoveries in record time
  • IPO of KOS on NYSE at a US$7B valuation in 2011

Paul Dailly, CEO

  • Kosmos Energy – Founding Partner and former Senior Vice President of Exploration – 
  • Non Executive Director of LLOG-Bluewater and Beacon Offshore Energy and advisor to Blackstone Energy Partners
  • 30 years experience in E&P with BP, Triton, Hess and Kosmos
  • Proven oil and gas finder with geoscience background

Colin Burnett, Founding Partner

  • A Chartered Accountant, Colin has a 20 year track record in oil & gas private equity
  • 3i Group plc – PE investor in a number of E&P companies including Venture Production and CH4 Energy amongst others
  • Agora Oil & Gas AS – PE backed UKCS & NCS exploration company (discoveries include Catcher)– sold to Cairn Energy 
  • Sand Hill Petroleum – PE backed & focused on applying advanced exploration technology in mature basins to identify overlooked conventional resources

Colin Percival, Technical Director

  • Former Technical Director at the Parkmead Group
  • Last 14 years managing E&P teams focussed on the North Sea and West Africa
  • 40 years experience in E&P with BP, British-Borneo, Dana Petroleum and Parkmead, geoscience background
  • Proven oil and gas finder with geoscience background