Dr. Franco Caselli

Exploration Manager & Mining Supervisor

mail: info@coipa.it

Franco Caselli has a M.Sc. in Geology from the University of Florence in Italy. He has over 35 years of international petroleum exploration and Business Development experience, including a variety of technical, operational and management roles with ENI and Petrofina. He has lived and worked in many different countries, including Vietnam, Ivory Coast, Holland, UK, Angola, Norway and Malta. He has significant experience in all facets of the upstream oil and gas industry and has worked as consultant on several international projects during his time with Hunt Oil and Heritage Oil.

He also has a good experience of working closely with international government bodies and attracting major joint venture partners to international projects. Exploration projects experience, has conducted geological and mining exploration and projects throughout Italy and world-wide. As reference, are listed here some of the projects recently carried out: Geological study and quarry planning of several quarries in Italy. Feasibility study based on satellite imagery for the identification of industrial minerals in the Sultanate of Oman Feasibility study and open pit mine planning for a sodalite deposit in Bolivia.