Leadership
Albert Gress, CPA
Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Gress is an accomplished energy executive with over 30 years of international leadership experience in acquisitions, operations, and business development. He has a strong record of building value and operational excellence across upstream ventures in North America, the Middle East, and Türkiye.
He most recently co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of TBNG Ltd., which became Türkiye’s largest private natural-gas producer. As acquisition architect, he led the purchase of TBNG from a Canadian listed company, securing both equity and debt financing, doubling production within two years, and generating strong equity returns.
Previously, Mr. Gress held senior leadership roles with SDX, TransGlobe Energy and Devon, including Vice President of Business Development and Egypt Country Manager. He began his career at Price Waterhouse and later joined Phoenix Resources, which was sold to Apache, setting the foundation for the largest US independent operating in Egypt.
Mr. Gress holds:
- BBA, Accounting, Canisius University
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
Jeffery Edelman, P.Eng.
Chief Operations Officer
Jeffery Edelman is an energy professional with over 20 years of leadership experience in upstream oil and gas operations, specializing in North Africa and North America. He combines deep technical, operational and commercial expertise with disciplined risk management approach to value generation.
Mr. Edelman’s leadership bridges international capital with local opportunity including management of complex joint ventures and public-private partnerships. Focused on organizational and operational performance, he restores under-invested assets engineering durable value creation through financial resilience and operational best-practices.
He most recently served as Director of Planning, Egypt at Apache Corporation. Prior to Apache, he advanced through operational and leadership roles supporting TransGlobe Energy’s international development and exploration programs delivering significant production growth and operational expansion.
Mr. Edelman holds:
- MBA, Royal Roads University
- M.Eng. (Reservoir), University of Calgary
- B.A.Sc. (Chemical Engineering), University of British Columbia
Scott Durocher, M.Sc.
Chief Geoscience Officer
Mr. Durocher is a veteran exploration geologist with 30 years of global experience spanning North Africa and North America. Known for his ability to generate commercial success through the drill bit, he has led high-performing subsurface teams, managed exploration risk, and built portfolios aligned with strategic corporate growth initiatives.
Most recently, he served as Director of Exploration, Egypt at Apache Corporation, leading teams of exploration and development geoscientists drilling more than 150 wells annually. In technical roles, Mr. Durocher has unlocked and created material value in an overlooked carbonate play, established a new structural play in the Western Desert, Egypt, and made the two largest onshore oil discoveries in the Gulf of Suez, Egypt over the past two decades.
Mr. Durocher holds:
- M.Sc. (Geology), University of Windsor
- B.Sc. Hons. (Geology), University of Windsor
- Specializations: carbonate reservoirs and diagenesis, interplay of tectonics and sedimentation in rift systems
James Page, CPA
Chief Financial Officer & Treasurer
Mr. Page is a seasoned private-equity-backed company executive with over 30 years of experience, principally in upstream energy, leading finance, strategy, and risk management. He has a demonstrated track record of building, scaling, and successfully exiting PE-sponsored assets, bringing deep expertise in corporate finance, capital allocation, and A&D execution, with an uncompromising focus on economic value creation and investor alignment.
He most recently served as Vice President & CFO of Commodore Offshore Operating, a Gulf of Mexico upstream contract operator. Previously, Mr. Page was CFO & Treasurer of Wishbone Energy Partners, where he and his partners built a position in the San Andres play of the Permian Basin and sold it in 2019 for $300 million to a public E&P company, generating exceptional equity returns. He began his career at Price Waterhouse, serving clients in the U.S. and Egypt before joining Apache Corporation in Cairo, where he held senior finance roles supporting rapid operational expansion.
Mr. Page holds:
- BBA, Accounting & Finance, Investment and Banking, University of Wisconsin–Madison
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA)