Who we are
About Us
Central European Petroleum Ltd. (CEP) registered in Calgary, Canada in 2006, and its wholly-owned affiliates, CEP Central European Petroleum GmbH, registered in Germany in 2008, and Central European Petroleum Ltd. sp. z o.o., registered in Poland in 2017, were set up to pursue petroleum exploration opportunities in the European Union, initially focusing on Germany. The management of CEP are well-respected industry professionals with extensive international experience in oil & gas exploration, production, field operations and finance.
CEP Management
Rolf Gregor Skaar
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Experience:
- Mr. Skaar has over 30 years of technical and managerial experience working for large multinationals such as Shell, Equinor and VNG but also for several smaller well services companies. Rolf has recently also worked for family offices with numerous board seats within apparel, retail, travel and aviation. Key competencies include Management, Strategy & Innovation, Business development/M&A & company start-ups with broad international experience.
Education:
- MEng Petroleum Engineering, Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, 1992.
- Postgraduate Diploma in Strategy and Innovation, Oxford University, 2015
Other Associations:
Alula Damte, PhD, P. Geol
PRESIDENT & CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
Experience:
- Dr. Damte has 20 years of petroleum industry and related teaching experience with expertise in petroleum systems analysis of basins in North, East and West Africa, North and South America, Western and Central Europe, and Western Australia. Throughout his industry career, he has provided solutions to structurally complex problems at the basin to prospect scale. He is also responsible for the identification of petroleum opportunities including the eastern Germany play concept for CEP. At CEP he has been the lead negotiator for farmouts and during capital raising efforts.
Education:
- Ph.D., Geology, UC Santa Barbara 1997.
Other Associations:
- Board Member, Petrel Robertson Consulting Ltd.;
- Technical Adviser to the Board, SouthWest Energy (H.K.) Ltd.
TERENCE (TERRY) P. ZIMARO, CPA, CA
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Experience:
- Mr. Zimaro has more than 25 years of professional accounting experience. He co-founded his full-service accounting firm Weller & Zimaro CPAs in 2014 and most recently his consulting firm Fynch in 2023. Previously he spent approximately five years with an oil and gas resource company with international operations. Other experience includes working in the tax department of a publicly listed independent power producer with operations in Europe and the US. Previously he was also a manager in the audit group of a mid-tier accounting firm focusing on publicly listed audit clients, particularly in the oil and gas industry.
Education:
- BComm Accounting Major, University of Alberta, 1998
- CPA (Chartered Professional Accountant) Designation, CPA Alberta 2004
Professional Memberships:
- CPA membership in good standing with CPA Alberta
Other Associations:
- Co-Founder with Weller & Zimaro Professional Corporation, Chartered Professional Accountants
- Co-Founder with Fynch Professional Corporation, Chartered Professional Accountants
- https://www.linkedin.com/in/terry-zimaro-cpa-ca-4b00184
ANDERS W. WITTEMANN
CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT ADVISOR
Experience:
- Mr. Wittemann has more than 30 years of international management consulting and oil industry experience from working with Rystad Energy, McKinsey, and Shell. He is currently an independent consultant on strategy and business development for oil & gas companies in Norway covering portfolio analysis and economic evaluations, exploration performance, and CCS. With Rystad Energy, Anders was manager of consulting services and with McKinsey he was part of the global petroleum practice. Anders was at the start of his career a reservoir engineer with Shell working in Oman and the UK.
Education:
- MEng Petroleum Engineering, Imperial College of Science Technology and Medicine, 1991.
- MBA INSEAD, France, 1997
Other Associations:
- Independent consultant with Wittemann E&P Consulting (Norway) AS
- https://no.linkedin.com/in/anders-wittemann
David Bertram, P.Eng.
ENGINEERING ADVISOR
Experience:
- Mr. Bertram has more than 30 years of world-wide experience in petroleum engineering operations, oil and gas field appraisal & development planning, production forecasting, economics, reserves evaluation, and M&A. He worked in production operations and reservoir engineering for Home Oil until 1992, when he joined Shell International: worked in PDO (Muscat) on gas-condensate field appraisal and development planning and then was seconded to Maersk Oil (Copenhagen), where he managed petroleum engineering operations for the Tyra Centre in the Danish sector of the North Sea. Mr. Bertram then became a partner in Adams Pearson Associates (now part of RPS Energy), where he worked as a reservoir engineering specialist on world-wide projects before starting his own reservoir engineering consulting company in 2006. Mr. Bertram joined CEP in early 2009.
Education:
- BSc, Chemical Engineering, University of Calgary, 1979.
Professional Memberships:
- APEGGA, SPE.
Other Associations:
- President, Bertram Reservoir Solutions Inc.
CEP Board of Directors
Peter Putnam (Chairman)
Independent Businessman
R. Ian Molson (Deputy Chairman)
Independent Businessman
Jeffrey Harris
Independent Businessman
Francis Sommer
Partner, Pamplona Capital Management
Carlos A. Pérez-Davila
Managing Director, Quadrant Capital Advisors, Inc.
Rolf G. Skaar
Central European Petroleum Ltd.
Gregory G. Turnbull
Corporate Secretary, Q.C., Managing Partner with McCarthy Tétrault LLP