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Lincolnshire

United Kingdom

Formate Brine Ltd. is a consultancy company offering technical and strategic advice on all matters relating to formate brines and their use in the oilfield. The Director of Formate Brine Ltd has worked with formate brines since 1986.

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Marketing cesium formate brine and developing the next generation of high-density cesium brine products for HPHT well drilling, completion, workover and suspension

Aberdeen, United Kingdom

Promoting the use of cesium formate brine as a drilling, completion and workover fluid that improves the economics and reduces the risk of deep gas field developments. Back in 1920's the oil industry took a wrong turning by adopting solids-weighted drilling fluids. Cesium formate brine has put drilling fluids back on the right (solids-free) track. It took.

Immingham, UK

Another new oilfield chemicals start -up- selling Hydro's formate brines, ester drilling fluid (Jafaester DF 200) and nitrate brines. The latter were new chemicals to the oilfield market. Packaged together under the Petrocare brand - "organic chemicals for well construction and reservoir management". Combined sales of 12,000 metric tonnes in first year of.

Norley, England, United Kingdom

Forbrico was a JV set up between Norsk Hydro and Great Lakes Chemicals to produce and market formate brines for use as drilling and completion fluids. New product to new market. Managed the establishment and start-up of Forbrico, first as a consultant and then as the company Managing Director. Failed to secure exclusive access to cesium formate brine from.

The Hague Area, Netherlands

Working with Bruce Stewart, Gerard Bol, Siv Howard, Jacques van Vliet, Eric van Oort and Roger Hough (to name a few). Research and development of novel well drilling and completion fluids, namely cesium formate brine and the TAME clouding glycol muds system. Conceived and qualified a novel shale drilling fluid based on Jeffamine ED600 diamine, of a type.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Working with Alf Thompson and Dwain Neil in Shell Chemicals' New Business Development Unit in Carrington. Started up a new oilfield chemicals business selling a range of new drilling additives and production chemicals under the Surdyne brand

London, United Kingdom

Worked for Wouter de Gruyter, Vernon Appelboam and David Goodman in the Specialty Chemicals New Business Development section of SICC in Shell Centre, London. Started up SICC's first oilfield chemicals business selling 1) Enordet AXS, ATS and AOS surfactants for micellar flooding and steam foam EOR applications and 2) Enorflo and Shellfo biopolymers for.

Worked as fermentation technologist in Shell's biotechnology laboratory with John Norris, Dave Harrison, Geoff Hamer, Bez Khosrovi, Roger Cripps and Kees Schram. Initially a member of the Single Cell Protein team developing a process for producing protein from natural gas. Filed first patent at age of 22 in 1973. Later joined the Biopolymers team.

Porton Down

Researching the penicillinase activity of Staphylococcus aureus. My supervisor was the late Dr. Tony Atkinson (http://www.biochemist.org/bio/03305/0050/033050050.pdf) in team including Jack Melling, Ken Sargeant, Charles Evans and Dick Yeo.

Bsc, Applied Biology

Education record

Activities and Societies: Rugby 1st XV, Cricket 1st XI

"O-Levels" Courses In Chemstry, Physics, Biology, Mathematics, English Literature, Latin, French

Activities and Societies: Rugby, cricket, hockey