Christopher has forty-two years experience in the international oil and Gas business and has extensive knowledge of well construction, well decommissioning and small offshore facilities decommissioning. He was previously global Head of Wells and Production Technology for British Gas and more recently Vice President - Global Marine Solutions for Wild Well Control Inc. The latter position saw him personally involved with over 400 well decommissioning projects and 60 small platform decommissioning operations in the Gulf of Mexico and international locations. For the last two years he has been a staff member at Curtin University Oil and gas Innovation Centre, Australia.

Christopher graduated with a BSc Honours in Mining Engineering from Leeds University, UK in 1979.

He is co-author of a US patent: ANNULUS CEMENTING TOOL FOR SUBSEA Application Classification ABANDONMENT OPERATIONUS Patent number: US 2013/0269948 A1 (Oct 17, 2013)