Curtis Cohen
Chief Executive Officer
Forty-five years in global oil and gas — from a start at Esso Exploration (ExxonMobil) to 500 million barrels of discoveries in Thailand, quadrupling Pogo's market cap to $3 billion.
Read full profile →01 — What we do
From licence to first oil.
Our focus is narrow on purpose: acquire proven hydrocarbon assets, develop them to production, and monetise — the same path this team has walked before, from southern Chad to the Doseo Basin.
Kibea Field · Chad
Acquire
Securing high-potential hydrocarbon positions in the African upstream, on terms that hold.
Develop
Taking the Kibea Field from licence award to first oil — engineered, funded, and on schedule.
Produce
Onshore production in the Doseo Basin, Chad — exported by pipeline to an FPSO offshore Cameroon.
Monetise
Offtake via FPSO, then proven exits — three Chad PSCs grown to 30,000 bopd and sold to Glencore for $1.3 bn.
Who we are.
Tytan African Resources is a private, founder-owned Canadian oil and gas company with a single mission: to develop world-class hydrocarbon assets in Africa, and to take them from proven reserves through to sustainable production.
The team has done this before. In southern Chad, three production-sharing contracts were grown to 30,000 bopd and sold to Glencore for $1.3 billion. Today the focus is the Doseo Basin in southern Chad — one of the continent's least-drilled, highest-prospectivity onshore plays — anchored by the Doseo Block and its five proven fields.
Curtis Cohen · Chief Executive Officer · Tytan African Resources Ltd.
02 — Leadership
Meet the people
An operating team that has taken African oil and gas assets from licence award, through commercial production, and onward to monetisation.
David Teh
VP, Country Manager
Four decades in international upstream rooted in the ExxonMobil/Esso world — Esso Production Malaysia (EPMI) and Esso Resources Canada among them — with a key role delivering the Caracal export pipeline in Chad.
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Jeff Ratcliffe
Chief Financial Officer
A seasoned CPA and Chief Financial Officer to multiple Canadian energy companies — 20 years leading corporate finance, governance, and growth across US, African, and international energy markets.
Read full profile →03 — Standards
Building trust through standards.
Operating an upstream asset in central Africa carries specific obligations — to the host state, the surrounding communities, and the regulators we publish to. We measure our work against them.
Licensed & registered
A private, Canadian-registered operator working under verified government and trading licences in every jurisdiction we enter.
Host-state compliance
Profit oil and royalties accrue to the host state from the first lifted barrel. Payments are published per period, per recipient, to the EITI standard.
Proven advisors
Audit, legal, and reserves work led by established names — BDO Canada, Pall Mall (London), McDaniel & Associates, and Schlumberger.
04 — Track record
Three basins. Three outcomes.
01 · Southern Chad
$1.3bn
Three vast PSCs taken from licence to commercial production at 30,000 bopd — then sold in full to Glencore.
02 · Black Sea · Türkiye
$18m
Operated offshore gas position — a prior campaign that funded a step-up in producing wells.
03 · Doseo Basin · Chad
700M bbl
The Doseo Block, southern Chad — five proven fields plus 19 Exxon-mapped structures. Our lead asset.
30,000 bopd peak prior production
$0 debt on the balance sheet
Public listing planned
05 — Contact
Connect with us.
For investor enquiries, partnership proposals, or supplier registration, send us a note and the right person will respond.
Built to be quietNo routine flaring beyond the early-production window.