Chris Weatherl

Non-Executive Director 

Mr. Weatherl is a Petroleum Engineer and highly experienced upstream oil and gas executive with more than 25 years of commercial, technical, operational, and leadership experience across multiple major U.S. and international basins. His career includes senior roles at Apache Corporation, where he led large-scale development programs, managed field optimization across multiple assets, and executed disciplined capital allocation strategies.

For over a decade, Mr. Weatherl served as Chief Operating Officer for multiple private equity–backed management teams, overseeing and co-managing the full spectrum of upstream operations and corporate functions, including geosciences, engineering, field operations, IT and data infrastructure, land management, health, safety and environment (HSE), environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives, and commercial strategy. Most recently, he was Chief Operating Officer at Rimrock Resource Operating, where he directed subsurface strategy, capital deployment, and the build-out of advanced data and IT systems, enabling analytics-driven decision-making that accelerated growth in the Anadarko Basin. Mr. Weatherl brings a deep understanding of U.S. shale business and a proven track record of delivering efficient, high-margin growth.