Mr Fontaine has over 25 years' technical and commercial experience in the development and commercialisation of conventional and unconventional petroleum assets, including start up, running and building resource companies. In the mid-2000s, he co-founded Pure Energy Limited whose primary endeavour was to secure prospective coal bed methane acreage in Queensland and develop a resource. Pure Energy drilled over 40 wells to prove over 1 trillion cubic feet of gas, which enabled the company to be sold to British Gas for over AUD$1 billion in 2009. Mr Fontaine is currently a major shareholder and on the board of several early-stage resource companies with assets based in Australia, Cuba, Africa and North America.
