Ciaran Nolan Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

Ciaran Nolan is the founder of Nolan Geoscience Limited. He has a strong commercial background and a proven track record on delivering growth. An independent thinker who quickly grasps key technical and financial drivers. Broad, multi-disciplinary experience, with particular strengths in the uses and abuses of seismic amplitudes and their influence in.

Bergen, Vestland, Norway

Petrolia Noco is a Bergen headquartered Norwegian Exploration and Production company. It is prequalified as an operator on the NCS with licenses in the Norwegian Sea and Northern North Sea and is active in the annual APA rounds.

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

Discover Exploration is an upstream gas & oil company with assets in Europe and Africa. The company was founded by the former executive team of Cove Energy plc and is co-owned by global alternative asset manager The Carlyle Group.The company has a 100% in Blocks 35, 36 & 37 offshore the Comoros Islands and are situated in water depths of 2,000+ meters and.

Longboat Energy, established by the former management team of Faroe Petroleum plc, is building a significant North Sea-focused E&P business. It has reached agreement on a bilateral basis with three separate counterparties to acquire a significant, near-term, low-risk exploration drilling programme on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (“NCS”).

Stavanger Area, Norway

North Sea development and exploration geophysicist responsible for various projects.

London, United Kingdom

Managed a team of five Geoscientists in two offices, overseeing 14 Mboepd production from 12 fields in Egypt and 2 in Bulgaria, near-field exploration and the development of the 2.1 Tcf Ain Tsila gas field in Algeria. The latest three Algerian development wells all met their geological objective, were drilled ahead of time and under budget. Managed the.

London, United Kingdom

Lead member of a small team that screened over 60 Africa/Middle East opportunities, developed a broad understanding of the key technical and commercial drivers in most basins / play types in the region. Instrumental in the award, maturation and drilling of the high impact Shakrok and Shireen concessions in Iraqi Kurdistan as well as the progression of the.

London, United Kingdom

Team Lead on a number of highly successful acquisitions and farm-downs; UK SNS – Farm-out to Centrica (2 for 1) and drilling of the Oak Gas Discovery, UK SNS – Farm-out to Hansa (1.6 for 1) and successful appraisal of the Chablis Discovery, Ireland (Slyne) – Licence application, farm-out to RWE (2 for 1) and drilling of the Bandon Oil Discovery, UK East.

Woking, Surrey, UK

Africa/Middle East – Senior member of global basin ranking team, screened over 30 high impact/low cost West Africa, and Middle East opportunities. Awarded the Luderitz Concession in Namibia and three concessions in Oman.Oman - project coordinator for operated offshore Block 50. Successfully persuaded Hunt Management not to relinquish but to farm-out..

Stavanger Area, Norway

Norway APA 2004 – Project Coordinator for Awards in Pre-Defined Areas (APA) Licensing Round, reporting directly to Atlantic Margin New Opportunities Manager. Responsible for all activities including block ranking, sub-surface-evaluation, and application document. Resulted in successful award of sole block applied for (6407/5: Shell 70% and Dong 30%).Norway.

Dublin, Ireland

Deepwater Operated Licenses – lead G&G on two operated deepwater Licenses West of Ireland: 6/97 (partners ExxonMobil, Arco and Murphy) and 2/94 (partners Agip and OMV). Responsibilities included coordinating seismic data acquisition and processing, 3D interpretation, depth conversion, calculation of prospect risks and reserves as well as co-leading License.

London, United Kingdom

1996/97 Irish Rockall Licensing Round – project coordinator of Enterprise operated evaluation of the deepwater frontier basins West Of Ireland covering some 220,00 km2. Personally responsible for driving the evaluation forward, culminating in the successful award of the blocks covering the high-graded Errigal prospect. Irish Petroleum Authorities (PAD).

Leatherhead & Central London

Production Geophysicist, Southern North Sea - Southern North Sea well planning, mapping, depth conversion and GIIP updates for Barque, Galleon, Clipper, Ketch & Schooner for Esso UK. Well planning of UK’s first multilateral well (PL01) on Barque Field. Study on the importance of fractures on deliverability in the Sole Pit fieldsSpecialist Geophysics Group.

Msc, Basin Evolution & Dynamics

Bsc, Geology With Geochemistry