Keith Spence - Santos Director

Mr. Keith William Spence serves as NonExecutive Independent Chairman of the Board of the SANTOS LIMITED., effective February 2018. He joined the Board on 1 January 2018 and became Chairman on 19 February 2018. He is Chairman of Santos Finance Limited and Chair of the Nomination Committee. Mr Spence has over 40 years experience in managing and governing oil and gas operations in Australia, Papua New Guinea, the Netherlands and Africa. A geologist and geophysicist by training, Mr Spence commenced his career as an exploration geologist with Woodside Petroleum Limited in 1977. He subsequently joined Shell Australia, where he worked for 18 years. In 1994 he was seconded to Woodside to lead the North West Shelf Exploration team. In 1998, he left Shell to join Woodside. He retired from Woodside in 2008 after a 14year tenure in top executive positions in the company. He has expertise in exploration and appraisal, development, project construction, operations and marketing. Upon his retirement he took up several board positions, working in oil and gas, energy, mining, and engineering and construction services and renewable energy. This included Clough Limited, where he served as Chairman from 2010 to 2013, Geodynamics Limited where he served as a nonexecutive Director from 2008 to 2016 and Oil Search Limited, where he served as a nonexecutive Director from 2012 to 2017. Mr Spence is also a past Chair of the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority Board and led the Commonwealth Governments Carbon Storage Taskforce. since 2018.