Key Personnel

Mr Rohan Courtney OBE - Founding Director

Email rohan.courtney@ucgp.com Tel 44 1483 832227 / 44 7879 498544

Rohan Courtney is a Founding Director of UCG Partnership which he formed with Michael Green towards the end of 2005. He was a career banker for 27 years including 8 years as Chief Executive in Europe of State Bank of New South Wales. He has been involved in energy for most of his career. He ran a world wide media public company for five years and was a company doctor also for five years. He has served on a number of public company boards and was a non-executive director (Senior Independent Director from 2000) of Tullow Oil plc, one of Europe's largest Independent Oil and Gas companies, from 1993 to 2007. He was also Chairman of the Audit Committee. He is currently Chairman of Clean Coal Limited (ucg commercial projects). He has been involved in underground coal gasification activities since 2003.

Dr Michael Green - Founding Director

Email michael.green@ucgp.com Tel 44 208 390 5132 / 44 7713 632272

Dr. Michael Green is a founding Director of UCG Partnership Ltd, and Managing Director of UCG Engineering Ltd, a UK company which provides specialist technical and management services to companies on underground coal gasification. He has authored many papers on UCG, and has made presentations to most of the major coal and energy conferences. He has also been working with Companies and State Bodies to identify future options for UCG. Previously, he was the Director of the European trial of underground in-seam gasification in Spain (1996-1999). Michael Green has 32 years experience in energy related engineering research, and holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from Imperial College, London.

Ms Julie Lauder - Marketing and Membership Director

Email julie.lauder@ucgp.com Tel 44 870 803 0665 / 44 7809 211247

Julie is the main contact person for UCGP and takes care of the day to day running of UCGP. With over twenty years experience in sales, marketing and events management across a wide range of industries Julie has helped support the members and grow and promote the Partnership globally.

She has advised companies on marketing and sales strategies and is often asked to speak on marketing and public relations issues to various interest groups including women in business and company start-ups. She has extensive experience in marketing and event management in Energy, trade associations, accounting, commercial finance, education and website development. She has been involved in promoting underground coal gasification since 2003 and regularly presents on the public and social aspects of UCG.

Mr Kenneth Fergusson - Senior Adviser

Email kenneth.ferguson@ucgp.com
Tel 44 20 7585 1294 / 44 7710 784622

Graduated at Imperial College in 1959, with 1st Class Honours in Mechnical Engineering. Joined ICI Agricultural Division; 9 years experience in high pressure synthesis plant operation, design and project management (ammonia, methanol and urea), gaining first-hand knowledge of many processes then at the "sharp end" of technology, and now relevant to gasification, such as steam reforming, shift conversion, CO2 removal and handling, and energy recovery

In 1968, joined RTZ (now Rio Tinto) and spent 17 years in project management and evaluation of mining, smelting and energy undertakings worldwide, latterly at Chief Executive level. It is noteworthy that, while in charge of the Technical Services Group in London, in the late 1970's, a study was carried out into possible means of accessing the energy contained in the vast occurrences of coal, being delineated by oil and gas drilling under the North Sea. The conclusion was that underground gasification was the most promising, but it was judged to be too far in the future to justify continuing work at that time.

Attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School in 1984 and, after leaving RTZ, spent the last 15 years up to retirement in 2001 as Chief Executive of enterprises in process, energy and transportation, in both the private and public sectors. Appointed Chief Executive of the Coal Authority in 1997, fortuitously coinciding with the European multinational UCG test project at Teruel in Spain, and was then responsible for the initiative which set up the UCG programme in UK, under the auspices of the Coal Authority, commencing in 1999.

After retirement, contributed to energy policy work in DTI, in preparation for the 2002 Energy White Paper.

President of the Combustion Engineering Association 2002 - 2006, with various lectures and publictions on energy matters, and attendance at gasification, environmental and other energy conferences, continually seeking to raise the profile of the potential for UCG as a major domestic, cost-effective and clean source of energy for the UK.