En. Azmir Zamri
Azmir joined PETRONAS in 1996 after graduating from the University of Glasgow with a degree in Geology & Applied Geology. He currently serves as Head of Resource Exploration and is a member of the Malaysia Petroleum Management Leadership Team, where he shapes the national exploration strategy. He leads the award of exploration blocks and chairs the Strategic Operations Committee Meeting (SOCM), providing regulatory oversight of operators’ exploration work programs and budgets. His current focus is on accelerating frontier basin activation and redefining the potential of mature basins in Malaysia.
Dr. Pierre Eliet
Pierre has 30 years of experience working in upstream growth projects with a focus on South-East Asia. Pierre worked with Lundin Energy and Roc Oil with oversight of subsurface and growth across both Groups’ Asian portfolios. He served as Technical & Business Development Director SE Asia for Lundin and as GM - Exploration, Geoscience & Business Development for Roc Oil & Director ROC Oil Malaysia. Pierre also previously worked at TotalEnergies and Cairn Energy plc in the United Kingdom, India and on new venture projects globally. Over his time at Cairn Pierre was closely associated with the discovery of the Cairn Rajasthan fields in India, and specifically the flagship Mangala field. Pierre now leads the Seascape business in Malaysia. Pierre holds a BA in Earth Science from Trinity College in Dublin (1991), a PhD FGS, Fellow Geological Society (London).
Kamonporn Inraikhing
Ms. Kamonporn Inraikhing is the Vice President of Subsurface Technical Solutions at PTTEP Exploration and Production Public Company Limited, where she leads multidisciplinary teams driving basin analysis, subsurface integration, and advanced technical subsurface solutions across the company’s global portfolio. With more than 20 years of experience in petroleum geoscience, she has played a central role in unlocking new opportunities in mature basins through strategic geological interpretation, high-value prospect generation, and technology-enabled subsurface workflows.
Her career at PTTEP spans a wide range of senior technical and leadership positions, including Head of Basin Analysis, Exploration Manager for Myanmar, and Manager of Corporate Geophysics Operations. In these roles, she has overseen regional petroleum system studies, seismic interpretation, and prospect maturation activities supporting exploration and development decisions. She has also contributed to major exploration and development campaigns in Malaysia’s North Malay Basin through an international secondment with Carigali–PTTEPI Operating Company, gaining valuable operating and cross-organizational experience.
Ms. Kamonporn’s expertise covers seismic interpretation, basin analysis, reservoir characterization, and field development planning. She has a strong track record of integrating geological insight with data-driven technologies to extend the exploration lifecycle of maturing assets. Her work focuses on delivering new discoveries, unlocking and maximizing remaining potential, and creating sustained value in Southeast Asia’s mature basins.
En. Khairul Hamidi
Khairul Hamidi is appointed as Senior General Manager of Malaysia Ventures, Exploration, Upstream, effective 1 August 2025. In this role, Hamidi will be instrumental in shaping the strategic direction of Exploration in Malaysia. He will lead efforts to deliver technical excellence, deploy fit-for-purpose technologies, and drive operational efficiency across the PETRONAS Carigali Exploration Portfolio in Malaysia, to accelerate resource growth and optimise resource management for PETRONAS Upstream.
Noeline Wong
Noeline Wong is the General Manager for Development and Subsurface Malaysia at Shell, where she leads a multidisciplinary organisation responsible for growth strategy, subsurface delivery, and development planning across Shell Malaysia portfolio. With over two decades of experience in upstream oil and gas, she brings a strong track record across portfolio management, transformation, exploration, new ventures, development, and asset production. Noeline has been instrumental in shaping Malaysia’s deepwater landscape. She previously led the Malikai and Gumusut-Kakap-Geronggong-Jagus East (GKGJE) Deepwater developments, contributing significantly to national production and value delivery. Her leadership experience spans multiple geographies, including Nigeria and the Netherlands, where she successfully delivered cross‑country capital projects and integrated development strategies that enhanced both value and operational competitiveness. A geologist by training, Noeline is a strong advocate for capital efficiency, data‑driven subsurface excellence, and sustainable development. She is deeply committed to building collaborative partnerships with regulators and joint‑venture partners, especially in complex technical and commercial settings.
Solène Guillemoto
Solène Guillemoto is Head of Malaysia Exploration at TotalEnergies EP Malaysia, based in Kuala Lumpur, and has 16 years with TotalEnergies. Throughout her career, she has worked primarily in exploration, contributing across several countries and diverse geological settings, spanning both mature and frontier basins. Currently, Solène oversees exploration activities in Malaysia, managing numerous licenses across offshore domains. She leads multidisciplinary teams delivering disciplined prospect maturation and value creation, integrating rigorous subsurface interpretation with partnership‑driven execution. Her technical expertise includes basin‑scale opportunity screening and structural and stratigraphic analysis.
Dr. Graham Baines
Graham Baines, PhD, is a Consulting Advisor at Halliburton based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His focus is on applying data science and machine learning (ML) to streamline subsurface interpretation and capture uncertainty. Graham has more than 18 years’ experience in industry and academia, including extensive experience leading research on the application of ML to the interpretation of wireline and seismic data. He has a M.E.Sci.(Hons) in Geology and Geophysics from the University of Liverpool, UK and a PhD in Geophysics from the University of Wyoming, USA.
Jyoti Kumar
Currently serving as the Regional Geophysical Advisor for the Asia Pacific region at TGS, based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Jyoti has over 21 years of experience in the seismic industry with core expertise in Seismic Data Acquisition and Imaging. Throughout his career, he has held various technical roles at PGS (now TGS) offices in the UK, Egypt, and Malaysia, and has worked with seismic datasets from diverse basins across the globe He is also the holder of two U.S. patents for developing innovative techniques in seismic imaging. An active member of SEG and EAGE, he has contributed to several of their events as both a technical committee member and presenter.
Karyna Rodriguez
Karyna is an Oxford University graduated Petroleum Geoscientist with over 30 years of multidisciplinary technical experience in global exploration projects. She possesses diverse experience from her time at PEMEX, BG and other major oil companies, where she worked with high level management developing their strategic portfolios. She currently works at Searcher as part of a high performing team dedicated to identifying, pursuing, and realizing new ventures to support efforts in optimizing hydrocarbon exploration in mature and frontier basins around the globe.
