Chris Rawlings

Part of Sandefer Capital Partners LP, Queensland Energy Resources Ltd is an Australian Brisbane-based company working to develop new sources of transport fuel to help offset Australia's growing dependence on imports. The company has tenure over 20 billion barrels of kerogen-based oil, which is well-suited to producing high-quality transport fuels like diesel and aviation fuel. At its Gladstone New Fuels Development Centre, QER produced high-quality, ultra-low sulphur diesel and aviation fuel within strict environmental regulations. QER is well advanced in the design of a small-scale commercial facility at its Stuart resource, near Gladstone. The company recognizes Australia's First Nations peoples and pays respect to their elders, past and present. In the Gladstone area where most of QER's activities are currently centred, the First Nations Bailai, Gurang, Gooreng and Taribelang Bunda peoples are the traditional custodians. QER has reviewed and investigated many of the technologies that have proven performance, and primary amongst these proven technologies is the vertical shaft retort Paraho technology, developed in the USA during the late 1970s/early 1980s.

UniQuest Pty Ltd. operates as a commercialization company of The University of Queensland. It specializes in industry-university collaborations, global technology transfer, and provide access to UQ's world-class expertise, intellectual property, and facilities. The company was founded in July 1984 and is headquartered in Brisbane, Australia.

Queensland Resources Council is a private company headquartered in Brisbane, Australia, with subsidiaries in that country. The firm operates as a not-for-profit industry association representing the commercial developers. Janette Hewson has been the CEO since 2023.

Carbon Energy Ltd. engaged in the development of clean energy and chemical feedstock from underground coal gasification for industrial gas users. Its projects included Blue Gum Gas and Bloodwood Creek in Australia; Mulpun in Chile; Claromeco Coal Basin in Argentina; and Inner Mongolia in China. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Milton, Australia.