William (Bill) Bloking has over 39 years of experience in the oil and gas sector and has worked in the USA, Europe, South America, Australia, and throughout Asia.
Until his retirement in January 2007, Mr Bloking was president of Australia/Asia Gas at BHP Billiton Petroleum where he had overall strategic, commercial and corporate accountability for BHP Billiton’s international LNG business and its domestic gas business in Australia. Prior to joining BHP, he had spent 24 years with ExxonMobil holding a variety of senior executive positions including as chief operating officer of Esso Eastern Products Trading Company, supply operations manager for the Far East and Western Hemisphere and general manager of Natural Gas in Indonesia. He has also been the managing director of Gunson Resources, non-executive chair of Nido Petroleum, and non-executive director of Transerv Energy which he chaired until August 2013.