Eduardo Manalac

For 28 of those 35 years he enjoyed a career with Phillips Petroleum (now ConocoPhillips) in many parts of the world, most recently in China, and encouraged Phillips’ initial entry into the Palawan Basin and similar areas in Indonesia. From 2003 to 2004 Ed was Undersecretary of the Department of Energy in the Philippines where he introduced the first public bidding round for exploration acreage targeting the Palawan Basin. From 2004 to 2006 he was President and CEO of the Philippine National Oil Company (appointed
20 August 2004, resigned 31 October 2006) and its subsidiary PNOC Exploration Corporation (appointed 24 September 2004, resigned 31 October 2006), and was Chairman of PNOC Energy Development Corporation (appointed 13 September 2004, resigned 31 October 2006).