Mr. Richard Hall graduated from Leeds University with a BSc in Chemical Engineering and spent the first 10 years of his career with Amoco, Murphy and Hess in various offshore and onshore drilling and production supervisory roles.

Mr. Hall was one of four Founders and Operations Director of Acteon Group which won the Institute of Petroleum Platinum award in 2001 for its new technology. He also formed and led a team which won the prestigious Queen’s Award for Export.

Mr. Hall subsequently joined Petrofac and became the VP of Operations and Developments and General Manager in Malaysia. He was also the CEO and Co-Founder of Asia focused Nio Petroleum which opportunistically procured assets offshore Malaysia before being acquired by EnQuest in 2013 with Richard joining the Senior Management Team as Head of International Business and then Head of Major Capital Projects.

After a stint in Dubai as Chairman and CEO of a private equity backed service company, he returned to EnQuest as GM Malaysia. He was then promoted to his previous role as COO of EnQuest. Mr. Hall was recently appointed as the CEO of Dana Gas Group.