Management Team
Gerry Sheehan – Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Sheehan has worked continuously in international oil and gas exploration, development, and production for over 40 years. He has broad technical and business development experience in Africa, South Asia and Europe.
Mr. Sheehan began his career in 1982 as a geophysicist working with the British National Oil Corporation (“BNOC”), after privatization becoming Britoil plc. He evaluated acreage in the United Kingdom, Dutch, Danish, Irish and Norwegian sectors. In 1986 he transferred to the BNOC Houston office as a technical auditor. He was later seconded to the Global Basin Evaluation Team, focusing on Africa and Asia.
In 1987 Mr. Sheehan joined the fledgling oil company Tullow Oil plc. as part of the founding technical team. The company was operated in Senegal on a World Bank-sponsored gas to power project. New acreage was secured in the UK onshore, Pakistan, Syria and Yemen, with follow-on exploration and field development projects. From 1992 to 1998, Mr. Sheehan held the position of Chief Geophysicist. The company operated in South Asia culminating in the discovery and development of a one trillion cubic feet-sized Bangora gas field in Bangladesh, operated on behalf of Texaco and Chevron. His project team also deployed on the re-development of the offshore Espoir field in Cote d’Ivoire, West Africa, with partners Canadian Natural Resources Limited and Addax Petroleum. From 1998 to 2006 Mr. Sheehan held the post of International Exploration Manager, this role also encompassed a business development responsibility. This was a time of expansion in the company with new assets acquired in West Africa, North Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and South Asia. In 2004, Mr. Sheehan led the technical due-diligence team on the corporate acquisition of Energy Africa plc. The company expanded its footprint in Africa with oil exploration successes in Ghana and Uganda.
In 2007 Mr. Sheehan founded a private company, Blackstairs Energy plc. The company acquired oil field rehabilitation projects in Romania, and exploration acreage in Armenia and Senegal. The company also undertook technical and commercial asset evaluations on behalf of third parties.
In 2014 Mr. Sheehan was a founder of T5 Oil & Gas, a private London-based oil and gas company. T5 is a licence partner in a portfolio of assets in Gabon, comprising offshore oil production and a suite of un-developed oil and gas fields, both offshore and onshore, now being advanced to development.
Mr. Sheehan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology and a Master of Science in Applied Geophysics, both obtained from the National University of Ireland. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society (FGS, elected 2009) and is an active member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG, 1986) and the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG, 1996).
Eugene Woychyshyn-Vice President Finance & Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Woychyshyn originally served as a consultant to NXT since late November 2017 providing controllership services. Mr. Woychyshyn brings to NXT over 25 years of leadership experience in multiple industries and worldwide regions including North America, Europe and Asia. He has extensive hands-on experience and accomplishments in mergers and acquisitions, organizational restructuring, purchasing, treasury, financial reporting and control, compliance, human resource management and tax planning. In almost ten years as an expatriate with assignments in Norway, China, the United States and South East Asia he developed international business competencies.
Mr. Woychyshyn is a Chartered Professional Accountant, CA, who holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons.) from the University of Manitoba and a Masters of Business Administration from St. Joseph’s University, Philadelphia PA.
Mr. Woychyshyn is a member of the Disclosure Committee.