The Management Team

Thomas A. Sjøberg

Co-Founder & Business Advisor

Thomas A. Sjøberg is a geophysicist by background and has 20 years of technical, operational and managerial experience in the Upstream Oil & Gas industry. Thomas A. Sjøberg was previously the President for EMGS Asia Pacific, a public listed Norwegian company supplying CSEM acquisition and processing. He has broad international experience in both business development and operations for Oil & Gas. Thomas A. Sjøberg has been based in Malaysia for more than 15 years and in that time period has brought in various Norwegian companies to Malaysia and expanded their presences in the Asia Pacific region.

Sven Tierney

Co-Founder & Technical Advisor

Sven Tierney holds a PhD in Physics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU, Norway), a MSc in Chemistry and a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Oslo (UiO). Over the past decade he has worked in various industries such as medical technology, industrial process engineering and Oil & Gas. Previously Sven Tierney worked in research and development, and at present focuses on technical sales and consultancy. For the past 9 years he has been based in Malaysia as a regional software technical expert originally employed by GeoKnowledge and later by Schlumberger.

Mohd Nazaruddin Hamidon

Director & General Manager

With more than 28 years of working experience, Nazar Hamidon had spent 26 years in the Oil & Gas industry starting as a Field Engineer in the upstream Drilling & Evaluation and moving up the ranks in various roles and responsibilities from field engineering, regional technical support, Operations and Project Management, Sales & Business Development and as an Area Manager. Nazar holds a Bachelor of Electro-Mechanical Power Engineering (B.Eng. Honours) from the University of Loughborough UK with PostGrad Diploma in Industrial Studies. Other than working in various countries in Asia such as Malaysia, China, India, Brunei, Vietnam and Thailand; Nazar also has had international working experience in different parts of the world such as the UK, Australia, Central Asia Caspian (Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan) and the Middle East (Saudi Arabia and Bahrain). Having work experience under two biggest oilfield global service companies in operations and technical areas, another two major global service companies in Sales and Business development, and serving various Oil & Gas majors (IOCs/NOCs) and smaller operating companies in various countries worldwide has given Nazar the knowledge and experiences to provide the expertise and service to the clients and principals of Salcon Petroleum Services Sdn Bhd.