Sam Malin is a Canadian businessman based in Madagascar

Madagascar

The Republic of Madagascar is an island country located in the Indian Ocean off the southeastern coast of Africa...

. He has founded a number of companies including Madagascar Oil

Madagascar Oil

Madagascar Oil SA is a Malagasy company, founded by Sam Malin with South African businessman Michael Smith and Australian businessmen Robert Nelson. Madagascar Oil focuses on the development, exploration and production of petroleum. It is the principal onshore oil company in Madagascar in terms of...

, Red Island Minerals

Red Island Minerals

Red Island Minerals Ltd is a Perth-based coal development company founded by Sam Malin , along with Robert Nelson, to develop the Sakoa, Sakamena and adjacent coal fields in southwestern Madagascar. The largest shareholder in RIM is PTT Asia Pacific Mining, a 100% subsidiary of PTT PCL , a...

, Avana Petroleum and Avana Uranium.

Educational Background

Sam Malin was schooled in British Columbia

British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

, including at Glenlyon Preparatory School for Boys

Glenlyon Norfolk School

Glenlyon Norfolk School is an independent, co-ed, university preparatory school in Victoria, British Columbia. It was formed in 1986 with the amalgamation of Glenlyon School and Norfolk House. The school offers instruction from Junior Kindergarten to Grade 12, and teaches according to the...

 (Victoria

Victoria, British Columbia

Victoria is the capital city of British Columbia, Canada and is located on the southern tip of Vancouver Island off Canada's Pacific coast. The city has a population of about 78,000 within the metropolitan area of Greater Victoria, which has a population of 360,063, the 15th most populous Canadian...

), Skeena Junior Secondary School

Skeena Junior Secondary School

Skeena Junior Secondary School is a junior secondary school in Terrace, British Columbia, Canada.-Grades:The school currently holds grades eight through ten. In the fall 2012 they will hold grade 7-9.-External links:*...

 (Terrace

Terrace, British Columbia

Terrace is a city on the Skeena River in British Columbia, Canada. The Kitselas people, a tribe of the Tsimshian Nation, have lived in the Terrace area for thousands of years. The community population fell between 2001 and 2006 from 12,109 with a regional population of 19,980 to 11,320 and...

) and St. Michaels University School

St. Michaels University School

St. Michaels University School is a private day and boarding school in the municipality of Saanich, which is a suburb of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The school is currently under the direction of headmaster Robert Snowden...

 (Victoria).

Malin graduated with a B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Geological Engineering (Applied Geophysics

Geophysics

Geophysics is the physics of the Earth and its environment in space; also the study of the Earth using quantitative physical methods. The term geophysics sometimes refers only to the geological applications: Earth's shape; its gravitational and magnetic fields; its internal structure and...

) from Queen’s University, Canada. Later, he undertook post graduate studies at Cambridge University in England.

Employment and Business

After graduating from Queen's, Malin joined Dome Petroleum

Dome Petroleum

Dome Petroleum Limited was a Calgary-based petroleum producer in the Alberta oilfields. Jack Gallager joined a group of investors in Dome Exploration Ltd. in 1950 and built it into the major Canadian oil company Dome Petroleum Limited . Gallagher was the sole employee for the first two years...

 in Calgary

Calgary

Calgary is a city in the Province of Alberta, Canada. It is located in the south of the province, in an area of foothills and prairie, approximately east of the front ranges of the Canadian Rockies...

, Canada, as a geophysicist. Later, after Cambridge, he joined the Energy Group of international consultants Arthur D. Little

Arthur D. Little

Arthur D. Little is an international management consulting firm originally headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, and formally incorporated by that name in 1909 by Arthur Dehon Little, an MIT chemist who had discovered acetate. Arthur D. Little pioneered the concept of contracted...

 in London. Since then, he has worked for Standard & Poor's

Standard & Poor's

Standard & Poor's is a United States-based financial services company. It is a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies that publishes financial research and analysis on stocks and bonds. It is well known for its stock-market indices, the US-based S&P 500, the Australian S&P/ASX 200, the Canadian...

 DRI and has carried out a variety of advisory and analytical roles under a number of EU energy sector programmes.

Malin first came across Madagascar's giant onshore heavy oil

Heavy crude oil

Heavy crude oil or extra heavy crude oil is any type of crude oil which does not flow easily. It is referred to as "heavy" because its density or specific gravity is higher than that of light crude oil. Heavy crude oil has been defined as any liquid petroleum with an API gravity less than 20°.Extra...

 Bemolanga

Bemolanga

Bemolanga is the name of a large tar sands deposit in the onshore Morondava Basin of Madagascar discovered in the early 1900s but known to locals for centuries. The field is located north of the Tsimiroro heavy oil field and east of the town of Morafenobe .Madagascar Oil, founded by Sam Malin, is...

 and Tsimiroro

Tsimiroro

Tsimiroro is the name of a large oil field in the onshore Morondava Basin of Madagascar found south of the Bemolanga ultra heavy oil field and south of the town of Morafenobe.. It is estimated to contain as many as of heavy oil...

 fields in 1994. Some ten years later, in 2004, he founded Madagascar Oil with Alan Bond

Alan Bond (businessman)

Alan Bond is an Australian businessman noted for his criminal convictions and high-profile business dealings, including what was at the time the biggest corporate collapse in Australian history. Bond was born in the Hammersmith district of London, England, and emigrated to Australia with his...

, Robert Nelson

Robert Nelson (businessman)

Robert Leslie Nelson is a businessman from Perth in Western Australia. He is a sometime partner of Alan Bond, also of Perth, with whom he cofounded Global Diamond Resources plc as well as Madagascar Oil Ltd...

, and Michael Smith to develop these fields and to undertake exploration for onshore conventional oil and gas in Madagascar. Malin is also the founder of, and project originator for, Red Island Minerals, which is developing coal

Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure...

 resources in and around the Sakoa

Sakoa

Sakoa is a region of southwestern Madagascar characterised by dry spiny forest and known particularly for its coal fields, the highest quality of which is the Sakoa field. There are a number of license holders on the field...

 region of southwestern Madagascar.

More recently, in 2006, Malin founded the Avana group of companies which cover oil and gas, uranium

Uranium

Uranium is a silvery-white metallic chemical element in the actinide series of the periodic table, with atomic number 92. It is assigned the chemical symbol U. A uranium atom has 92 protons and 92 electrons, of which 6 are valence electrons...

, gold

Gold

Gold is a chemical element with the symbol Au and an atomic number of 79. Gold is a dense, soft, shiny, malleable and ductile metal. Pure gold has a bright yellow color and luster traditionally considered attractive, which it maintains without oxidizing in air or water. Chemically, gold is a...

 and other minerals, arid zone seed oil, and properties projects in the western Indian Ocean

Indian Ocean

The Indian Ocean is the third largest of the world's oceanic divisions, covering approximately 20% of the water on the Earth's surface. It is bounded on the north by the Indian Subcontinent and Arabian Peninsula ; on the west by eastern Africa; on the east by Indochina, the Sunda Islands, and...

 region (including Madagascar, the Seychelles

Seychelles

Seychelles , officially the Republic of Seychelles , is an island country spanning an archipelago of 115 islands in the Indian Ocean, some east of mainland Africa, northeast of the island of Madagascar....

, the Comoros Islands, Mauritius

Mauritius

Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about east of Madagascar...

and the east African margin).

Sources

Official website of Madagascar Oil

Source link - Consensia website

Publications

"Threshold Vision in Amblyopia: Orientation and Phase", Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 2003; 44(11):4762-71 (ISSN 0146-0404)http://www.iovs.org/cgi/reprint/44/11/4762

Chapter on "Exploration and Production of Crude Oil and Natural Gas", in Panorama of EC Industry, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 1993. OCLC: 19060217. http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/oclc/19060217

Chapter on "Trends in Japanese Refining", in Leading Developments in the Product Tanker Market, Published by Lloyd’s of London Press Ltd., 1992.

Chapters on "Solid Fuels" (Coal) and "Exploration and Production of Crude Oil and Natural Gas", in Panorama of EC Industry, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, Luxembourg, 1992. OCLC: 19060217. http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/oclc/19060217