Bala Kunjan has over 37 years G&G experience in exploration and development across the Oil and Gas Industry in Asia-Pacific Basins of Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Australia, New Zealand, and the USA. He has worked within integrated teams of geologists, geophysicists, and reservoir engineers, leading to significant discoveries and field developments such as the Ravva Oil Field (India), East Spar Gas/Condensate Field (Carnarvon Basin, Australia), Tui Oil Field (Taranaki Basin, New Zealand), Casino/Henry/Netherby Gas Fields (Otway Basin), Yolla Gas/Condensate Field (Bass Strait) and many Cooper Basin Gas and Oil Fields. He has been noted for mentoring younger geoscientists since 2004. His core area of interest is in visualizing/communicating exploration risk, and planning for sustainable long term success through anticipated probabilistic outcomes from given assets/portfolios. He has a BSc Hons in Geophysics from the Science University of Malaysia, Penang, 1977 and an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM), University of New South Wales, Australia, 1990.

Having started his career with Esso in Malaysia (1977-1985), he has worked as an employee as well as a consultant with various companies including Delhi Petroleum (Adelaide), Santos (Adelaide), Western Mining (Perth), Command Petroleum/ Cairn India (Sydney/Edinburgh/Chennai), Reliance Industries (Mumbai) and AWE (Sydney).