Communicating the Activities of the Oil and Gas, Petrochemical and Mining Industries

Newman Consulting is a specialist corporate and financial public relations consultancy providing bespoke solutions to companies in the natural resources sector

Our Experience


Sector Experience and Knowledge:

Having worked within the oil and gas industry and as a senior consultant to numerous companies within the natural resources sector over many years, Lisa J N Pope MCIPR MIRS has extensive sector experience, and expertise in communicating the activities of oil and gas exploration and production, petrochemical and mining companies to all target audiences. In addition, as a result of her time spent specifically within the oil and gas industry, she has a reputation amongst key investment and media target audiences as an informed and reliable information source within the sector, with a detailed knowledge of the associated issues.

  • Midmar Energy Ltd - Corporate communications
  • Firstdrill Ltd - Corporate communications
  • Island Oil and Gas plc 2004 - AIM Admission and financial public relations
  • Delta Oil Company and Delta International - international public relations
  • Nelson Resources plc - Placing and AIM Admission 2004/05
  • Previously Director of Corporate Affairs, Ramco Energy plc (1997 - 2002. The Caspian, Central and Eastern European years). Consultant to Ramco Energy plc (1993-97):
  • Azerbaijan International Operating Company
  • JKX Oil & Gas plc IPO
  • Pennzoil European Investor Relations
  • Advised multiple oil companies as part of partnership/joint venture activities
  • European investor relations programmes for a number of overseas gold mining and oil and gas companies

Country and Regional Experience:

Lisa J N Pope has provided corporate communications advice to companies operating all over the World, advising on their communications requirements both at home and in the countries in which they operate.

She has worked and travelled extensively within the Caspian Region and former Soviet Union and Central Asia since the early 1990s, and was one of the original business communicators on this region, building the profile of the Caspian Region amongst investor and media audiences across the United States and Europe well before the signature of the first Azeri Contract. She assisted with the official Presidential visits to the United Kingdom of the late President Heydar Aliyev of Azerbaijan and the previous President Shevardnadze of Georgia, as well as UK ministerial visits to the region. She has conducted many international media and analyst roadshows, and has organised high-level conferences overseas on inward investment.

Specific country experience directly related to the natural resources sector includes: the Caspian region and Central Asia, specifically Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and Russia, as well as Czech Republic; Poland; Montenegro; Bulgaria; Romania; Sardinia; Australia; Saudi Arabia; Ireland, the U.K.and U.S.


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