Frank Ingram has over 40 years experience in petroleum exploration, working in a number of countries including the USA, Australia, Indonesia, China, Central and South America, Libya and Iran.

Following graduation, Frank worked for two years with the US Army Map Service in Alaska and then joined the Atlantic Refining Company (Arco) as a geologist in 1956.

During the next five years, Frank worked in the USA, Guatamala and Bolivia before being moved to Australia in 1961 where his work included a major drilling programme in the onshore Gippsland Basin. In 1965 he was appointed as Senior Geologist for Arco in Iran and subsequently Libya from where he returned to Australia in 1969 to work on Arcoís major exploration programme in the Bonaparte Gulf and Timor Sea. Except for a break from 1972 to 1975 as Chief Geologist in Peru, Frank worked on this area for the next ten years, first as a Senior Geologist and then as Chief Geologist for Arco in Australia.

In 1979, Frank returned to Los Angeles where he was appointed Geological Manager for Central and South America. From 1983 to 1985 Frank acted as Geological Co-ordinator for China before being transferred to Jakarta as Geological Manager.