Executive Committee
CAMERON MANIFOLD – Managing Director
Graduating from Queensland University in 1985, Cameron has gained in excess of 18 years experience in the upstream oil and gas industry. Commencing initially with Australian onshore oil and gas fields and moving to the offshore industry in 1988, Cameron has extensive experience in oil and gas field development, particularly in sub-sea developments. He has worked both onshore and offshore in Australia , S.E.Asia, Africa and the UK and has complimentary broader skills in Reservoir, Petroleum and Production Engineering. Cameron has specific expertise in horizontal well completion design and intervention technology.
In November 1996, Cameron co-founded the Advanced Well Technologies (AWT) consulting engineering group to provide quality Petroleum Engineering Services to the Australasian region.
In addition to technical responsibilities on a series of projects, Cameron is Managing Director for AWT. He also serves as director on the boards of several companies both within Australia and the United Kingdom . In 2002, in recognition of the capabilities and growth of the organization, Cameron was a recipient of the Business News’ award as one of the top 40 businessmen under 40 years of age in Western Australia.
CAMPBELL MITCHELL – Director Business Development
Campbell has spent the last 19 years working for two major service companies, Otis / Halliburton and Baker in various locations worldwide. He began his career in the UK with Otis / Halliburton holding various roles which included slickline, well servicing to onshore technical support for offshore North Sea. Thereafter, Campbell worked with Baker Oil Tools in Aberdeen and Houston in sales and marketing roles and latterly in a business development role for the Caspian region encompassing Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Georgia.
During this time Campbell has gained extensive experience in all aspects of the Oil and Gas Industry, marketing, sales, training, planning right though to execution.
Campbell can be contacted at mitchellc@awtgroup.net
SLAVENA PAVLOVA – Financial Controller
After running a small trading company and working in Eastern Europe's media industry for several years, Slavena moved to Western Australia and assumed a senior accountancy role with Australian Isola Materials Pty Ltd.
Slavena subsequently joined Advanced Well Technologies in 2002. In her role as AWT Group's Financial Controller and Company Secretary, Slavena is responsible for managing the Group's financial, tax and corporate matters including, but not limited to, cash flow and budget forecasting, management reporting, Australian and international tax compliance and planning, ASIC reporting.
Through her extensive financial experience both within Australia and overseas Slavena has gained proficiency in a range of e-commerce and accounting software systems.
Slavena holds a Master in Commerce (Accounting) from the University of Western Australia and a Bachelor of Accounting and Financial Control from the University of Economics, Varna City, Bulgaria.
Slavena can be contacted at pavlovas@awtgroup.net
CAL ROGERS – Director Information Management
Cal Rogers is an information management professional with over 20 years oil and gas industry experience. Cal graduated in 1980 from the Western Australian Institute of Technology and has a wide range of experience having worked for operators, service providers and as a consultant in Australia, Europe and the US. He has sound knowledge of E&P information types and the management and delivery of information through geoscience applications, including GIS and online interfaces.
Since 1996, Cal has been involved in the scoping, development and delivery of innovative e-business solutions; the establishment and management of major revenue generating IT outsourcing initiatives; data and knowledge management implementations and web/portal projects with major oil and gas companies.
In 2000, Cal took the award winning UK LIFT (License Information for Trading) initiative and turned it into the successful IndigoPool.com global asset-trading eMarketplace. IndigoPool is now utilised by Governments, Investment Banks and Major Oil Companies world-wide for high value asset trading.
Cal joined Advanced Well Technologies in February 2006 as Director Information Management. This new role in the organisation is designed to ensure AWT and our customers gain maximum value from our ICT and Information Systems environments.
Cal can be contacted at rogersc@awtgroup.net
DICK TER AVEST – Director Projects
Dr Dick Ter Avest joined Advanced Well Technologies (AWT) in 2005 as Director Projects. Dick graduated in 1987 from Twente University in the Netherlands and following research work in the Netherlands, Switzerland and France he obtained a PhD in Applied Physics in 1991. Dick then joined Shell International and worked in Europe, the Middle East and Australia in the areas of production technology and production operations. He held positions of Development Manager, Asset Development Leader, Petroleum Engineering Manager, and Head of Production Engineering.
Dick has gained substantial experience in oil and gas field development in a variety of operating environments both onshore and offshore. He has led field development and planning of large onshore and offshore oil developments and gained experience in all aspects of the development life-cycle from appraisal through concept selection and detailed engineering design to project execution. Dick has also been responsible for leading integration of exploration, appraisal and development activities. Throughout his career Dick has gained substantial commercial experience including sizeable M&A activities.
Dick can be contacted at teravestd@awtgroup.net
