Robin Sutherland

/Robin Sutherland

Robin Sutherland

Director

Robin is the Technical and Commercial Manager at Geo Petroleum Ltd. He is a geophysicist with a strong operational background who has spent over 30 years living and exploring within Africa in a variety of technical and business leadership roles, most recently as Tullow Oil’s General Manager for Exploration in Africa. Robin left Tullow in 2020 and is now focussed on helping African countries to explore for, and maximise the value of, their natural resources to power economic growth. He has a BSc in Geophysics from Edinburgh University and started his career with a seismic contractor. He joined Energy Africa in 1997 and subsequently led Tullow’s exploration team during the discovery and appraisal of the Jubilee and TEN fields in Ghana before expanding his role to cover appraisal of the exciting discoveries in the East African Rift.