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zon.” In 2006 Upstream Petroleum was sold
to the AGR Group, of Norway. “The end of
2006 was exactly the right time to sell a com-
pany, because right after that was the GFC,”
he says. After that he worked in Malaysia
for AGR, helping them build their business
there. He eventually resigned the position,
took what he calls a career break, and then
joined the Cue team in Melbourne.
Paton thinks that his technical, busi-
ness, and operational background is well
suited to the position, and that he adds oper-
ational and project experience and entrepre-
neurial skills that Cue would have otherwise
lacked. The Board at Cue thought the same
thing. “Cue was very good on the exploration
side of the business, so I don’t have to be,” he
chuckles. “We have a very good exploration
team, but I am the only guy from the other
end of the spectrum who has a production
and projects background – but we are now
in the process of building a real operating ca-
pability,” Patton comments. He sees Cue as
having huge potential to grow and become