Paul Winchester is a Chartered Engineer with extensive worldwide experience in the petroleum industry spanning more than 30 years. For much of this time, he specialised in Production Engineering in both planning and operating roles.

He graduated from Nottingham University (UK) with a BSc (Hons) in Mining Engineering in 1963 and joined Shell as a petroleum engineer. He was subsequently assigned to various Shell companies overseas including Algeria, Belize, U.K., Nigeria, Qatar, Brunei, and Norway. As head of the Production Engineering Department in Norway, he was part of the conceptual study team for the development of the massive Troll field deep water oil and gas projects.

After leaving Shell in 1984, he joined Delhi Petroleum in Australia for two years as Field Superintendent responsible for the operation of their oil fields in Queensland and South Australia.

More recently, he spent three years in Government service, first as State Petroleum Engineer in Tasmania, then as Chief Petroleum Engineer with the Bureau of Mineral Resources in Canberra.

Through his consulting company, Winoil Pty. Ltd., Paul has worked with the oil industry, and is an accredited consultant to the World Bank.

He has published and presented many papers on petroleum matters, and has represented Australia on the OECD Collaborative Committee on Enhanced Oil Recovery, and Tasmania on the AMEC Standing Committee on Offshore Legislation, and supervised the NERDDC funded study "Potential for Enhanced Oil Recovery Applications in Australia."