Peter Kingston is a petroleum engineer who has worked in the oil and gas industry since 1965 in various roles. He has 40 years of experience in technical, executive and advisory roles. Mr Kingston was a founding director of Enterprise Oil, establishing and managing its technical department with worldwide responsibility for reservoir engineering, field development and production management from 1984 to 1992. He trained as a petroleum engineer with Shell, where he played a leading role in the first oil developments in the North Sea. Mr Kingston serves as Honorary Professor of Heriot-Watt University. He is a graduate of Oxford University.