About Us

Dr. Arthur Halleran has served as a director of Trillion Energy since October 4, 2011. He has a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Calgary and 40 years of petroleum exploration and development experience. His international experience includes countries such as Canada, Colombia, Egypt, India, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Suriname, Chile, Brazil, Bulgaria, Turkiye, Pakistan, Peru, Tunisia, Trinidad Tobago, Argentina, Ecuador and Guyana. Dr. Halleran has worked for Petro-Canada, Chevron, Rally Energy, Canacol Energy and United Hydrocarbon International Corp. In 2007, Dr. Halleran founded Canacol Energy Ltd., a company with petroleum and natural gas exploration and development activities in Colombia, Brazil and Guyana which made a billion-dollar natural gas discovery in Colombia.

David Thompson successfully founded an oil trading company in Bermuda with offices in the U.S. and Europe (Geneva, Moscow and Amsterdam). He was responsible for the company’s production operations in Turkmenistan and successfully raised over $100 million in equity. Was responsible for the company’s production from the Lhamov and Zhdanoy oil fields (offshore Caspian Sea – part of Turkmenistan project) which discovered producing reserves of 365m barrels of oil and 2 TCF gas. He also negotiated the farm-out of a number of company assets. He is the Managing Director of AMS Limited, a Bermuda-based Management Company. He has served as Founder, President and CEO of Sea Dragon Energy Inc. (TSX:V), CFO of Aurado Energy, CFO of Forum Energy Corporation (OTC), Financial Director of Forum Energy Plc (AIM) and SVP at Larmag Group of Companies. Mr. Thompson is a Certified Management Accountant (1998).

Kubilay Yildirim has, over the past 20 years, had hands-on experience in drilling, production, seismic acquisition, and logistics for both onshore and offshore projects in Turkey. Kubilay has spent most of his career with this company and its predecessor: Madison, Toreador and Tiway. He has also been involved in sales and divestitures of assets and has taken on significantly more managerial positions until being promoted to General Manager in 2009. Mr. Yildirim has a degree in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering from Middle East Technical University and an MBA from Bilgi University in Istanbul.

Ozge Karalli joined Toreador in 2004 as Accounting Manager and Financial Controller before becoming the Finance Director of Tiway Oil in 2010. Karalli has a Bachelor of Economics degree from Bilkent University and has been a Chartered Public Accountant in Turkey since 2002.

Dr. Barry Wood has over 45 years of experience in the upstream oil and gas industry, having spent the core of his career with Shell Canada and Marathon International Oil Company. With Marathon, he directed asset evaluations across Southeast Asia and the Afro/Arabian regions and drilling campaigns in Egypt and Syria for over 16 years. In 1998 he founded PetroQuest International SA, a private exploration and advisory firm which he led to new exploration fairways in Tanzania, Syria and Egypt through the application of his research in reservoir formation. Since 2008, his experience has also included senior advisory positions with companies such as Dana Gas, NPC (Egypt), Sea Dragon (Egypt), and Maurel et Prom (Tanzania), among others, in establishing new offices, reviewing and recommending new opportunities, preparing contracts and managing geological and geophysical programs. Dr. Wood holds a D. Phil from Oxford University and is a member of the Geological Society of London, The Petroleum Exploration Society of Great Britain, and the American Association of Petroleum Geologists.

Sean Stofer has over 20 years of renewable energy experience. Mr. Stofer is a graduate of the University of British Columbia in Engineering and is a registered Engineer in California. He is a founder of several successful renewable energy companies including for the Arctic's largest solar array; 250 MW of solar in the USA; 200+MW of wind projects and over 300MW of hydroelectric projects. He is COO of Green Data Center Real Estate, which uses renewable energy to power data centers. Sean is leading a project of over 500 MW using wind, solar and hydropower. Sean has worked closely with Government to guide policy and has consulted to a wide range of companies. Sean was awarded the Top 40 Under 40 in Vancouver, Canada for his business achievements.