- A senior project development and asset management executive with a successful track record in E&P companies ranging from large, vertically integrated “big-oil” companies to independent producers. After gaining core experience in the US with ExxonMobil and managing drilling campaigns for independent companies, moved to Russia and held roles of increasing operational and managerial responsibility in Anderman/Smith and Russian oil giant TNK’s joint venture Chernogorskoye and later Gazprom as CEO of Southern Oil Company, a subsidiary. Returning to TNK in 2002, helped integrate the company with BP and held a senior management role developing upstream gas in the merged oil giant TNK-BP until mid-2007.
- Returning to USA in 2014, joined Integrated Petroleum Technologies. Neel currently provides technical and strategic advice to companies in the upstream, midstream and mining sectors.
