Thamala Perera
General Counsel, IGas Energy
Thamala Perera is General Counsel of IGas Energy PLC, the AIM listed, largest onshore oil and gas exploration and production company in the UK. IGas has more than thirty years’ experience of successfully and safely extracting oil and gas from over 100 sites around the country. Following the acquisition of Dart Energy Limited in October 2014, IGas has an asset base of over 1 million licensed acres and explores for both conventional and unconventional oil and gas.
In 2011, following the reverse takeover of Star Energy Group Limited (a wholly-owned subsidiary of PETRONAS) by IGas, Thamala was appointed to lead the legal function of the enlarged group. Prior to the reverse takeover, Thamala was General Counsel of Star Energy responsible for all legal matters of the European Infrastructure Group of PETRONAS with a primary focus on gas storage.
Thamala was called to the Bar in 2000. During her career she has gained a combination of in-house and regulator (Ofgem) industry specific expertise and has a proven record of successfully advising pioneering and fast growth companies on a variety of challenges faced in the oil and gas industry.