Nigel Friend joins a growing group of chief executives able to deploy proven number-crunching skills to steer a profitable course away from the rocks and rapids that threaten to engulf smaller geology-driven players in today’s upstream industry.
Appointed to British Virgin Islands-registered Orca Exploration’s top job last November, Friend swiftly built a business development team to review the gas development and supply model so successfully applied in south-western Tanzania at Orca's Songo Songo field — the company's sole asset — and replicate it across the continent.
