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Chris holds a BSc (1968) in geology & biology from Western Australia and earned an MSc in petroleum engineering from the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London University in 1974.
He joined West Australian Petroleum Pty. Ltd. from 1968 through 1972, working in regional and development geology on Barrow island, Dongara gas field and drilling pograms in the Canning and Carnarvon & Perth basins.
Chris was from 1975 a member of the senior management of Gaffney Cline & Associates, inc. a leading international petroleum advisory firm, during which time he was resident in London Singapore and Washington DC. His responsibilities included technical evaluation, reserves and field development studies, Fair Market Valuation of exploration licenses including significant holdings in Australia, the MacKenzie Delta and international portfolio's, unitization, new product market studies. From 1975, he held senior management positions in various regions and was president of the US company through 1983.
In 1982, Mr. Moyes founded the current Group in Texas to manage oil and gas transactions and other energy investments.
Chris has presented a series of seminars on economics and risk assessment to the newly emerging national oil company in the Peoples Republic of China under mandate from the United Nations and has presented seminars on international petroleum terms to national oil company staf from the FSU and China.
He has advised and managed the placement of funds in exploration and production ventures in the U.S. and international, the evaluation of production in properties for acquisition and investment opportunities. Chris advises on new company issues, including teh support in the international markets for capital and identified and acquired assets for these companies, and developed technical and contractual aspects of public documents.
Chris has provided the commercial foundation through economic models for unitization of large fields, for frontier terms with governments and for large scale infrastructure including cross border transportation. His work has involved the integration of financing structures, costs and collateral for thinly capitalized projects, providing an additional safety net for clients in negotiating aligned contractual relationships.
From 1998 through 1993, he jointly developed the economic model, EdgeCa$h addressing international petroleum fiscal terms and evaluation on a stardard platform. The rights to the EdgeCa$h model, which addressed the industry needs for evaluation of most international fiscal terms, was sold to LandMark Graphics, a leading software company specializing in oil and gas systems.
Chris has managed for fifteen years the ongoing development of moyesco.com which includes comprehensive summaries on industry activity, purchase, sale and merger transactions, financial commitments, exploration, farm-outs and relinquishment of obligations. The database is integral to the Firm's core business in the identification of oprtunties and provision of Fair Market Values and financing.
Chris has thirty years experience in the energy sector and has published a number of papers on petroleum legislation, exploration, and project financing and provides advice and management of, client and joint venture operations, investment programs, technical and business aspects of exploration and production contracts, joint venture and farm-in arrangements.
He is a current member of the SPE for which group he was the founding Singapore member, the AAPG, and the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators. Chris is an SPE Distinguished Lecturer on International Petroleum Finance, 1996-1997 and has made presentations in several countries addressing International Petroleum Finance, the Source and Cost of Capital. |
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