Director and Prinicpal
Chris Thompson BSc (Geology); Grad Dip. (Res. Eval. & Man.); MAICD; SPE - Member
Chris is an industry veteran with over 25 years in technical and executive roles for private and public oil and gas companies.
His experience spans reserves, production and operations management, investor and stakeholder relations, fund raising (including IPO), acquisitions and divestitures, exploration, green-fields and brown-fields development. He has worked in onshore and offshore conventional and unconventional oil and gas and CSG fields in Australia, Asia, the UK and USA.
Prior to founding Aithon, Chris was Chief Operating Officer of ASX listed Strike Energy, where he built a safety and cost conscious team, both in the office and field. Operating programs comprised drilling, fracture stimulation and completion, facilities and extended testing. These activities delivered as designed without material incident and at progressively lower cost.
Founding Aithon
Chris founded Aithon in 2017 to provide not just a technical or commercial resource, but a combined suite of energy advisory services. His network provides the expertise required to support and advise clients, whether energy producers, customers or financiers.
Where does the name come from?
Aithon comes from the Greek meaning fire or burning. Aithon is a mythological war-horse of the Greek gods.
Associates
Talline Zarzavatjian BSc (Geology); MSc (Petroleum Geoscience); PESGB & PESA - Member
Ahmad Dehghan Khalili BSc (Chem. Eng.); MSc (Res. Geo. & Eng.); PhD (Res. Eng.)
Ahmad Dehghan Khalili BSc (Chem. Eng.); MSc (Res. Geo. & Eng.); PhD (Res. Eng.)
Talline has been working in the oil and gas industry for over 20 years, dominantly within field appraisal and development. She has a demonstrated history of working in multiple basins globally, including the North Sea, offshore Mauritania, the Lake Albert Rift Basin in Uganda, offshore Taranaki and the Eromanga, Cooper, Surat and Bass Ba
Talline has been working in the oil and gas industry for over 20 years, dominantly within field appraisal and development. She has a demonstrated history of working in multiple basins globally, including the North Sea, offshore Mauritania, the Lake Albert Rift Basin in Uganda, offshore Taranaki and the Eromanga, Cooper, Surat and Bass Basins in Australia.
Talline has been a consultant development geologist for the past 5 years, prior to which she worked as a senior development geologist for Drillsearch Energy in Sydney.
Her areas of expertise encompass geomodelling, volumetric assessments, risk and uncertainty, well planning and design, dataroom evaluations and, more recently, CO2 EOR and CCUS.
Ahmad Dehghan Khalili BSc (Chem. Eng.); MSc (Res. Geo. & Eng.); PhD (Res. Eng.)
Ahmad Dehghan Khalili BSc (Chem. Eng.); MSc (Res. Geo. & Eng.); PhD (Res. Eng.)
Ahmad Dehghan Khalili BSc (Chem. Eng.); MSc (Res. Geo. & Eng.); PhD (Res. Eng.)
Ahmad has over 18 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. He has worked on conventional and unconventional assets, including development of underground gas storage, production optimization and CO2 EOR & CCUS projects and Coal Seam Gas (CSG) field development.
Ahmad's areas of expertise include dynamic reservoir simulation modell
Ahmad has over 18 years of experience in the oil and gas industry. He has worked on conventional and unconventional assets, including development of underground gas storage, production optimization and CO2 EOR & CCUS projects and Coal Seam Gas (CSG) field development.
Ahmad's areas of expertise include dynamic reservoir simulation modelling, reservoir management, production forecast, well pressure test design and analysis and well nodal analysis.