Barry Goldstein
Australian public servant
Barry Goldstein (c. 1952, New York - 15 July 2022) was an American-born Australian geologist, civil servant, and regulator who served as the Executive Director of Energy Resources for Southern Australia's Primary Industries and Regions department for 20 years. Former employers include Phillips Petroleum, Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Corporation, and Santos Limited.
Early life and education
Goldstein was born in New York in the United States. He graduated with a degree in geology from SUNY at Binghamton in 1975 and with a Masters in geology at the University of Missouri in 1977.
Career
Goldstein began his career as a geologist after finishing school, beginning in Bartlesville, Oklahoma at Phillips Petroleum. He traveled extensively before settling in Australia in the 1980s. He worked for Kuwait Foreign Petroleum Exploration Corporation in Perth (1982-1985); and Bridge Oil and Parker & Parsley Petroleum Company in Sydney (1986-1995) before joining Santos Limited in Adelaide as Chief Geologist (1996-2001). In 2002, he started working for the Government of South Australia as the Executive Director of Energy Resources, a role he held until his death in 2022.
Goldstein made discoveries in the North Sea, Indonesia, Australia, Papua New Guinea, and South America.
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