Barry Goldstein
Director – Petroleum
Office of Minerals and Energy - PIRSA

Barry Goldstein is South Australia’s Director - Petroleum & Geothermal and has 27 years international experience in the energy sector. He holds Geology degrees from the University of New York (BA-75) and the University of Missouri (MA-77). Barry was Chief Geologist & Exploration Manager with three E&P companies in Australia: Santos (1996 – 2001), Bridge Oil Ltd (1987 – 1995), and the Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Company (1982-86) after starting his career with Phillips Petroleum (1976 – 1981) in the USA and Europe. He is Australia’s Executive Committee Representative to the International Energy Agency’s Geothermal Research Cluster (under the Geothermal Implementing Agreement). Barry is a past President of the Petroleum Exploration Society of Australia (PESA) and is a Board Member of the Australian Geoscience Council (since 2004); the the Federation of Australian Scientific and Technologic Societies (since 2004) and the Australian School of Petroleum (since 2002). He is a member of the AAPG’s House of Delegates and International Lecturer Committee. Barry has published papers in the APPEA Journal, the proceedings of PESA’s Basin Symposium, the Oil & Gas Journal, and The Log Analyst. He was a member of APPEA’s Exploration Committee (1998-2000) and has a sense of humour.