Bala Kunjan has 40 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 United States.
He has worked within integrated teams of geologists, geophysicists and reservoir engineers, leading to significant field developments and discoveries such as the Ravva Oil Field (India), Krishna Godavari Basin (East Coast India) Deepwater Discoveries, 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), many Cooper Basin gas and oil fields and currently in the Oyong and Wortel Fields in Madura Strait.
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 bachelor’s degree in geophysics from the Science University of Penang, Malaysia and an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management (AGSM), University of New South Wales, Australia.
Having started his career with Esso in Malaysia, Kunjan has worked as an employee as well as a consultant with various companies including Delhi Petroleum (Adelaide), Ultramar (Sydney), Santos (Adelaide), Western Mining (Perth), Command Petroleum/ Cairn India (Sydney/Edinburgh/Chennai), Reliance Industries (Mumbai), AWE (Sydney) and Drillsearch (Sydney). Currently he works with Cue Energy in Melbourne. Kunjan is a member ASEG and SPE.
Cue Energy, Melbourne, Australia