• Principal Consultant
• 36 years' oil industry experience  

• Result driven upstream professional with deep technical and commercial awareness across E & P sector. Strong technical and commercial grasp of E & P value chain. Proven ability to strategize, perform under pressure and deliver against tight deadlines.
• Extensive managerial experience in planning, budgeting, team motivation, cost control, organisation, internal and external communication, contract negotiation and project control in hybrid teams.
• Innovative and engaging team leader leveraging trust and openness to gain internal commitment and client satisfaction.
• Personal attributes – integrity, quest for knowledge, leadership competencies, decision driven and results oriented, sense of humour & sensitivity to staff personal issues. Proven ability in staff development (& dealing with difficult staff) and recognized for fostering a team, can do, inclusive environment.
• Organised with attention for detail in an inclusive manner. 
  

• MSc Petroleum Geology. 
  

• Principal Consultant
• 23 years' oil industry experience  

• Over twenty years experience of managing international, multi-discipline technical teams in a range of business environments: London, Abu Dhabi, Kuala Lumpur, Houston, Stavanger, Aberdeen, Milan, Guildford. 
• Trainer for professional managers in every aspect of business practice from all over world in multiple industries gaining a thorough understanding of diverse business challenges and how to manage them.   

• Previously manager of large groups (up to 30 technical staff) developing new business, breaking into new territories, using new technologies, facilitating new approaches to business processes.   
• Project managed complex projects including seismic, subsurface (exploration and development – geology, geophysics, reservoir engineering, petrophysics, geomechanics etc.), commercial (e.g. Due Diligence, M&A, CPRs) multi-disciplinary liaison (including subsurface, drilling, facilities and alternatives).  

• Wide geographical technical experience. Europe, Africa, Middle East, Asia, Far East, NSA.  
• Seismic data processing specialist with experience in 1D, 2D, 3D, 4D and Land, Marine, OBC and Transition Zone services.  

• MSc in Applied Geophysics, Masters in Business Admin (MBA), MA in Philosophy. 
  

Industry Experience

• Principal level consultant
• 20+ years’ oil industry experience  

• Geoscientist (geophysics with geology) with exploration and development experience on various projects; exploration, new ventures and field development with exposure to both clastic and carbonate reservoir environments.
• Seismic interpreter (2D and 3D); Prospects & leads generator; Volumetric analysis.
• Project Management & coordination – seismic work programmes, subsurface evaluations, farm-out campaigns. 
• Prince2 certified project manager. 
• Business development – farm-out campaigns, maintaining business contacts / intelligence gathering, trade shows, presentations & technical representations.
• Experience of numerous sedimentary basins around the world, from the Caribbean, conjugate margins of South America and West Africa, Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranean, onshore Europe, North Sea, Russia, Middle East & Australia. 
  
• MSc in Petroleum Geology, BSc in Applied and Environmental Geology. 
  

• Example work: ENH, ENOC, NAMCOR, SHT, Shell, Shlumberger, Fina Exploration, Northern Petroleum, Chariot Oil & Gas, Cairn Energy, Premier Oil, Block Energy

• Software: Kingdom, Petrel, Paradigm, Landmark, GeoFrame, REP, MCEHV, X-Trap, ArcGIS

• Principal Consultant
• 30 years' oil industry experience  

• 30 years’ experience in the industry, 23 years in 2D and 3D marine seismic processing and acquisition, with land seismic data processing and acquisition operations, survey design, tendering and parameter selection.
• Physics graduate with initial contractor experience in seismic data processing with Geco and marine field processing with Geco, Digicon and Veritas DGC, finally running the Stavanger processing Centre for Veritas DGC. Subsequently transferred into client representation QC and broadened experience into land acquisition and processing. Parallel career in training and education continues through training roles within the industry.
• Processing:
• Land Processing supervision and hands on test line processing for land data including thrust belt zones, carbonate areas and imaging through surface basalt.
• MarineProcessing of 3D and 2D Atlantic continental margin deepwater surveys. 
• Acquisition:
• Land Acquisition experience includes 2D and 3D vibroseis, dynamite operations, Nodal acquisition and evaluation of slip-sweep continuous recording methods.
• Marine Acquisition experience includes 2D and 3D on 12 and 16 streamer 3d vessels, including some HSE client representation and reporting. QC of fixed sea-bed nodes.
• Familiar with recent acquisition developments, including Marine de-ghosting techniques, including deep-tow, broadband source methods processing to a broadband result from conventional acquisition techniques. land nodal, single source and overlapping sweep methods.
• Prince2 certified project manager.  

•  MA in Physics & Geology (Camb).