Senior Management
Dr Tony Tan
Group CEO and Executive DirectorDR TONY TAN was appointed as the new Group CEO and Executive Director effective 17 June 2010. Before joining the Company, Dr Tan was the CEO and Director of Orchard Energy. His extensive geological knowledge, coupled with his management experience and excellent relationship with ASEAN National Oil Companies, gave him the edge and commanding position to lead RH Petrogas. Dr Tan has over 30 years of international oil and gas exploration and production, and merger and acquisition experience, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region.
Dr Tan was previously with Singapore Petroleum Company Ltd ("SPC") as Senior Vice President, Exploration and Production since August 2000 and was a Director of several SPC subsidiaries. Prior to SPC, he managed Gaffney, Cline & Associates – Asia Pacific office in Singapore, an international petroleum and management consultancy firm. He also worked in a multi-national company in Calgary and Houston for 16 years where he held several key management positions and was involved in international exploration and production activities in Asia Pacific, China, North Sea, Canada and Trinidad.
Dr Tan graduated with a Bachelor of Science (First Class Honours, Geology) Degree from the University of Malaya. He also holds a Master of Science Degree from Carleton University, Canada, a PhD in Geology from the University of Calgary, Canada and a Certification in Corporate Finance from Wharton-Singapore Management University.
Francis Chang
Vice President, Exploration and ProductionMR FRANCIS CHANG is Vice President for Exploration & Production. Prior to joining RH Petrogas, Mr Chang served as a Vice President for International Operations in GNT International Inc. that is based in Beijing, China. He brings along wide network with US based major and independent oil companies throughout his over 30 years of industrial experience. Mr Chang's technical expertise in many petroleum basins in the global arena and geological experience in China over the past 7 years will be invaluable to RH Petrogas in developing their Fuyu 1 Block in China.
Mr Chang graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from National Taiwan University and attended a graduate study programme in Geophysics at Harvard University.
Samuel Cheong
Vice President, CommercialMR SAMUEL CHEONG is Vice President for Commercial. Mr Cheong was a Commercial Director of Orchard Energy Pte Ltd, which is now a subsidiary of RH Petrogas, since March 2009. Before joining Orchard Energy, Mr Cheong served in various capacities ranging from business development, commercial, risk management and crude operation in Singapore Petroleum Company Limited for approximately 18 years.
Mr Cheong's involvement in many successful acquisitions and joint ventures in both the upstream and downstream sectors of the oil and gas industry forms a strong portfolio that RH Petrogas can tap on to strengthen their new core business - exploration, development and production of oil and gas resources. He also led the company's asset team in managing its entire portfolio of upstream exploration and production assets. Mr Cheong graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the National University of Singapore.
Edwin Tan
Vice President, LegalMR EDWIN TAN is Vice President for Legal. Mr Tan has a number of years of broad legal knowledge and experience, including in the areas of corporate, compliance, company secretarial and oil & gas. Before joining the Company, he was legal counsel at Singapore Petroleum Company Limited for 8 years, where he also managed the group's company secretarial function. Prior to SPC, he was in legal practice in Singapore, at law firms including Shook Lin & Bok and Khattar Wong & Partners where he also headed their corporate secretarial practices.
Mr Tan graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours (Law) degree from the University of Kent at Canterbury, England and was admitted as an Advocate and Solicitor in Singapore.
Then Guang Yaw
Group Financial ControllerMR THEN GUANG YAW is the Group Financial Controller. He joined the Group in 2006 as Internal Audit Manager and was stationed in our Manufacturing plant in Shenzhen for a year. His earlier background was in external and internal audit with companies in Malaysia. Prior to joining us in 2006, he spent 6 years as Financial Controller and later as General Manager of a company of Rimbunan Hijiau Group in South America. Mr Then is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.