Peter Buchanan
Chief Executive, Valient Petroleum
Peter
has had a career spanning two decades in the oil industry. After a
Shell sponsored MSc at Imperial College, Peter completed a PhD in
structural geology with BP. This was followed by various senior
technical and managerial roles with companies such as CogniSeis
Development (now Paradigm Geophysical Limited,) Oil Search Limited
and Premier Oil plc.
Much of this time was spent in South East Asia (including Papua New
Guinea and Myanmar) where he was involved in several significant
oil and gas discoveries.
Immediately prior to founding the Company in 2004, Peter spent five
years as a Director on the oil & gas team at The Royal Bank of
Scotland with specific responsibility for North Sea structured
finance and was involved in several hundred million pounds of debt,
mezzanine and equity financings to independent oil and gas
companies.
In 2010 Peter was elected to the role of Chairman of Brindex, the
Association of British Independent Oil Exploration Companies.