45 years of international oil and gas experience, including an extensive career with Imperial Oil Ltd.
Ron Royal brings 45 years of international oil and gas experience, including an extensive career with Imperial Oil Ltd. and ExxonMobil’s global upstream affiliates. Leading ExxonMobil’s operations in Chad, he oversaw the construction and start-up of the 1,000 km Chad–Cameroon export pipeline and earned one of the country’s highest national honours. Since 2007, he has served as an independent businessman and corporate director, advising and governing companies across the international energy sector.
From 2011 to 2014, Ron served on the Board of Directors of Caracal Energy Inc., and he has also been a Board Member of Gran Tierra Energy, in addition to holding roles on several private oil and gas company boards prior to 2010.
Before his retirement from ExxonMobil, Ron was President and Production Manager of Esso Exploration and Production Chad Inc., residing in N’Djamena from 2002 to 2007. In recognition of his significant contributions to Chad’s economic development, he was awarded the Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Tchad in 2003.
Ron holds a Bachelor of Applied Science from the University of British Columbia (1972) and completed the Executive Development Program at Cornell University in 1986. He has been a long-standing member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Alberta since 1972.