Sam Hemmings-Sykes

Sam is a geoscientist with 20 years' experience across the energy and minerals industries, spanning from onshore seismic and drilling programmes in Papua New Guinea to deepwater exploration and development offshore Guyana. He has held a range of technical and management roles with ExxonMobil in Australia and the USA, including business development, country leadership and global exploration leadership. As Vice President of Exploration for ExxonMobil Asia Pacific, he led operated and frontier exploration teams across Papua New Guinea, Australia and Indonesia. Sam is currently a director at Lucent XP, a consultancy providing strategic and technical services to energy and minerals companies.