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Dr. Ellenor holds a BSc Hons. (Queen's University, Kingston, 1966) and PhD (University of New England, Australia, 1971), both in Geology. He has 35 years experience in the exploration and production (E&P) industry, having spent 25 of those (1971-1996) on international assignments with the Royal Dutch/Shell Group in Australasia, Europe and North and South America. During that period, he held progressively more senior managerial assignments, chiefly in Exploration, culminating in his appointment as President and CEO of the Shell Companies of Colombia (1992-1996). He left Shell in 1996 to become CEO of the Colombian E&P company Hocol SA, a position he held until 1998. After a posting as Business Development Director in London, UK, he returned home to Canada and established an oil and gas consulting company. In this capacity, he again served as CEO of Hocol SA (2002-2003) and later CEO of Orca Petroleum, Inc. (2004-2005).
Dr. Ellenor was appointed to the Board of Orca Petroleum, Inc., Calgary (TSXV: OPI) in 2000, and retired in 2006. He is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists and Canadian Society of Petroleum Geologists. He resides in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. | 