Consultant Profiles

The Energy Contract Company is headed by Niall Trimble, Anthony Way, David McGough and Nick Stranks who have all spent extensive careers in the energy industry. Please select a profile from the list below to read more about our team:

  • Lynn Nahmani
  • John Richards
  • Bill Bloking
  • Dr Noel Fabri
  • Greg Miles
  • Sean Long
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    Sharon Sievert is a Senior Consultant with 15 years experience in the exploration, petroleum production and mining industries. Sharon has extensive experience in a corporate advisory role including strategy development, economic modelling and analysis, acquisitions and divestments and risk assessment. Her negotiation, strategy and valuation experience covers Australia, China, Algeria, Angola, Iran, Iraq, Russia and Egypt, as well as the United States and United Kingdom.Recent consulting work to national and international clients includes:

    • Analysis of existing and future fiscal regimes applicable to a Middle Eastern downstream gas project for strategic planning and investment decision-making purposes.
    • Conducting a strategic review of business development activities leading to a recommendation for revising the business development strategy to align it with the corporate vision.
    • The design and development of an economic model of comparative fiscal regimes, including production modelling as well as economic parameters.
    • Redesigning a country strategy to meet growth objectives and conducted a long-term, new-country entry strategy.
    • Designing and development of a production management system which allowed the company -- for the first time -- to view its suite of assets as a portfolio and which introduced basic economic principles to the technical staff.
    • Preparation of exploration and acquisition bids and divestment information memoranda.

    Whilst at BHP Billiton, Sharon was the Global Practice Leader for Economic Evaluation, responsible for policies and the quality of economic valuations and risk assessment. This role included establishing the commercial foundations for projects, auditing analyses, shepherding projects through the approvals process and establishing probabilistic techniques and policies for economic valuation. She managed a multidiscipline, global team and had responsibility for the quality of economic valuations going to the executive committee and board sanction.

    Prior to joining BHP, Sharon worked for Atlantic Richfield in a variety of commercial roles predominantly in upstream project and asset development, business development and strategy. Earlier work includes expert witness work for take-or-pay litigation, patent damages and international trade disputes.

    Sharon holds an advanced degree in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where she taught asset market development and corporate finance in the MBA program. She taught statistics and economics at the University of Colorado and Rutgers University. Further she has prepared and presented bespoke short and long courses in economics, finance and probabilistic techniques to industry clients and at various SPE conferences.