Kenny Goh
Senior Vice President, Exploration<br/>Founding Partner
Kenny Goh is a successful oil and gas finder with three decades of international experience as an exploration and exploitation geophysicist. He was a key member of the Kosmos team that discovered the Jubilee oil field in 2007 and made subsequent oil finds offshore Ghana.
Goh was chief geophysicist for Triton Energy in the discovery of the Ceiba Field and seven other finds offshore Equatorial Guinea. Earlier he was Triton’s senior geophysicist in the Malaysia/Thailand Joint Development Area, where he was involved in the discovery of several giant gas fields with reserve potential of more than 10 trillion cubic feet. Following Triton’s sale to Amerada Hess Corporation (subsequently Hess Corporation) in 2001, he served as senior geophysical advisor for Hess’s deepwater Gulf of Mexico team.
Goh spent his early career in Southeast Asia with the Malaysian state petroleum company Petronas, Shell/Carigali and Sun Oil International E&P. During four years at Shell, Goh was responsible for re-evaluating five large, mature producing fields in the Baram Delta. While based in London and Aberdeen with Sun he spent three years in North Sea exploration and production, including development of the Glamis Field.
A graduate of Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Goh holds a BSc. (Hons.) in applied geology.
Goh was chief geophysicist for Triton Energy in the discovery of the Ceiba Field and seven other finds offshore Equatorial Guinea. Earlier he was Triton’s senior geophysicist in the Malaysia/Thailand Joint Development Area, where he was involved in the discovery of several giant gas fields with reserve potential of more than 10 trillion cubic feet. Following Triton’s sale to Amerada Hess Corporation (subsequently Hess Corporation) in 2001, he served as senior geophysical advisor for Hess’s deepwater Gulf of Mexico team.
Goh spent his early career in Southeast Asia with the Malaysian state petroleum company Petronas, Shell/Carigali and Sun Oil International E&P. During four years at Shell, Goh was responsible for re-evaluating five large, mature producing fields in the Baram Delta. While based in London and Aberdeen with Sun he spent three years in North Sea exploration and production, including development of the Glamis Field.
A graduate of Universiti Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Goh holds a BSc. (Hons.) in applied geology.