Ray Barnes has worked in Europe, North and South America, South East Asia, the Middle East and Australia with an outstanding record of finding and developing commercial oil & gas discoveries in Australia and internationally. Recent appointments included being technical director of Voyager Energy from 2001 to 2005 and exploration manager of Apache Energy (based in Perth) during a very aggressive exploration and development phase in the offshore Carnarvon Basin when over 40 discoveries were made. Prior to 1997, Mr Barnes held senior management positions for Ampolex and was based in Denver, Colorado where he was responsible for the US and South American operations following a period in Perth where he was responsible for North West Shelf and Timor Sea operations.
